Our Team
Lance Davisson, President
Lance Davisson owns a consulting company, The Keystone Concept, LLC, located in Boise and is Executive Director for the Treasure Valley Canopy Network. Lance has worked as a natural resource professional for over 20 years in the public and private sector and enjoys working together with teams to develop solutions to complex resource management challenges across landscapes and in cities and towns. Over the course of his career, Lance has served on a variety of non-profit boards and councils where he enjoys helping non-profit organizations develop sound governance, highly impactful member services and building a team that loves to work hard and have fun! When not at work, Lance enjoys spending time with his wife and kids enjoying the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest, including whitewater rafting, camping, and hiking.
Ethan Sims, Vice President
Ethan Sims, MD is an emergency medicine physician living and working in Boise, Idaho. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and his medical degree from Emory University. Dr. Sims trained in emergency medicine at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois before a decade soaked in roasted green chile and sunshine in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He and his family moved to Boise in 2017 and have found home in the Gem State. He has achieved the pinnacle of parenting, whereupon his daughters have surpassed him in intellect and athleticism, but fortunately still need a driver. He and his wife still have the affection of their three dogs. Ethan founded the Idaho Clinicians for Climate and Health in late 2021 and is proud to serve on the board of directors for ICCH. He is the medical director for sustainability at St. Luke's Health System, working to embed sustainable practice across the St. Luke's system.
Amy Moll, Treasurer
Amy Moll, PhD is a Professor in the College of Engineering at Boise State University. She enjoys teaching first year courses like MSE 101 Introduction to Materials Engineering and UF 100 The Impact of Materials on Society. Her research interests include microelectronic materials, advanced manufacturing, sustainable materials, and engineering education. Dr. Moll was the founding chair of the Materials Science and Engineering department at Boise State. She served as Dean of the College of Engineering from 2011 to 2017 and as Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies from 2017 to 2019. In 2018, she started the B.S. in Engineering, known as Engineering Plus, and served as the Program Director through 2023. Since 2021, she has served as the Director of the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering. She strongly believes that engineers improve our quality of life and can have a positive influence on environmental challenges. She enjoys being outside: gardening, hiking, floating a river, or just sitting. She has raised four puppies for Canine Companions for Independence. Although she once met a President of the United States, her dogs are more famous than she is.
William Weppner, Secretary
William “Bill” Weppner, MD, MPH is an internal medicine physician and clinician-educator based at the Boise VAMC in Idaho. He received his MD and MPH at the University of Washington (UW); he completed his training in primary care internal medicine at the UW-Boise residency program, and a subsequent general internal medicine fellowship in health services and health policy. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine and Boise Section Head for the Division of General Internal Medicine for the UW School of Medicine. As an educator and health services researcher, Dr. Weppner has published one book, several book chapters, and over 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts on health care delivery and education appearing in journals such as JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, Journal of Graduate Medical Education and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Raised in Idaho, he enjoys living in Boise with his wife and three children and is lucky enough to be able to mountain bike and ski to and from work (weather permitting!).
Melissa Roop, Director
Melissa Roop, MD is a Family Practice physician currently working in Boise at Full Circle Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center. She enjoys working with underserved populations, and seeing their unique vulnerabilities to the health effects of climate change is part of what brings her to ICCH. She grew up as a "Forest Service brat" where she learned the value of the land at a young age. She became interested in Climate Medicine after she completed residency training, a time when she felt her work in medicine was at a disconnect from her core value of caring for our planet. She is currently focusing her energy in this space on provider education and decarbonization efforts in her health system. She hopes to soon work with her local community and later the state and region on climate resilience strategies. Outside of work she enjoys gardening, running, rock climbing, knitting and cooking alongside her partner, son and two dogs.
Amanda Blanchet, Executive Director
Amanda Blanchet, PA-C is an emergency medicine clinician in Boise, Idaho. She studied International Business at the George Washington University then went on to complete her PA studies at MCPHS - Boston. In 2023, she graduated from the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship with the Cambridge Health Alliance. She has lectured internationally on various medical training and education topics, among her favorites was a customized curriculum for National Park Rangers in Sri Lanka teaching emergency medical training for those who protect wilderness and wildlife. Amanda believes we can harness innovative technologies to complement and even enhance our natural world.
Ben Showalter, Volunteer Coordinator
Ben Showalter, MD is a family medicine resident at Full Circle Health Family Medicine Residency in Boise, Idaho. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biology from Texas Christian University. He met his fiancé during college and stayed a year after graduation working as a medical scribe. He then went on to get his medical degree from the University of Washington. When not working in the hospital or clinic, he enjoys avoiding injuries on skis and bikes, attempting to catch fish in rivers, and hurting his shoulder playing disc golf. He is passionate about the interplay between preventative medicine and advocating for sustainability in the US healthcare system. He hopes to continue promoting and advocating for sustainability movements in health care and applied to the Climate Health Science & Policy Fellowship through the University of Colorado. No matter where he ends up or what his practice will look like, he will always find ways to get involved with the local community and bring together like-minded people to promote sustainability efforts.
Abby Davids, Policy Coordinator
Abby Davids, MD, MPH is the program director at Full Circle Health / FMRI Boise. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a dual MD/MPH in 2011. She completed family medicine residency at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center and then HIV fellowship at FMRI, and has been faculty at FMRI ever since. Abby is a broad-spectrum family doc who loves to work with residents in all settings including inpatient, outpatient, and OB. Her clinical expertise lies in the care of newly arrived Americans, global medicine, and the intersection of infectious disease and primary care. She loves to help residents find and pursue their passions and to celebrate the joy of a career in family medicine – one that is full of advocacy! She cares deeply about healthcare as a human right, immigration advocacy, planetary and climate health, and reproductive justice – and loves advocating in all of these realms. She leads the IAFP’s Climate and Health committee, is helping with sustainability efforts at FCH, and completed the Climate Health Organizing Fellowship at Cambridge Health Alliance in 2024. Outside of the office she is happiest on a mountain trail, exploring wild places with her dog, Juniper.