Name: Jeffrey G. Hopkin
Credentials:
BS in 1979 from BYU.
MD in 1983 from Southwestern Medical School (University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas.)
Family Practice Residency at Tarrant County Hospital in Fort Worth, TX, 1983-1986.
Special training in high risk obstetrics, ENT and diabetes.
How long you have worked by UVFP:
Have practiced in Rexburg for 19 years and have been solo family medicine with Upper Valley Family Practice since 2005. Added a special interested in functional or natural medicine since 2006 that includes special treatment of fatigue, insomnia, depression, hormone imbalance, infertility and gastrointestinal disorders and food allergies of all kinds.
Favorite part of the job:
I love my patients above all else and I cherish my long term relationships with the whole family. I deliver babies, take care of those children and then deliver those peoples children when they are married. It is very rewarding!
Fun Fact:
I love a good joke and feel that humor is “the lubricant of life.” I climb mountains for relaxation and love being out in nature. I feel blessed to be invited into the lives of so many good people in life and medicine.