Richard Clews earned his MSN as an Adult Nurse Practitioner with a focus in Cardiovascular disease management from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in 2012 and then practiced initially at the University of Colorado as a outpatient general NP. Shortly thereafter in 2014 he did a 1-year Hospitalist Fellowship as Faculty at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus with rotations in Medical Oncology, General Hospital Medicine Service, Emergency Room and Cardiology. He completed his Post Masters AGACNP at the University of Colorado School of Nursing during his Fellowship and became Board Certified through the ANCC. He then practiced as an Advanced Practice Provider in Structural Heart Disease and General Cardiology in the inpatient and outpatient settings at Michigan Heart and Vascular Institute in Ann Arbor, MI until relocating with his family to Boise and has practiced at St Luke's Cardiology ever since.