Shanna Angel, Board Certified Nurse Anesthesiologist
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Compassion is the foundation of our practice. Your success stories excite us and continue to deepen our understanding of the work. IV Ketamine Infusion Therapy can truly be life-changing, and we'd love to be part of your healing process. The Sun Valley Ketamine Clinic is the Wood River Valley's first and only facility to offer this transformational treatment.
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Shanna has practiced anesthesia in surgical and emergency environments for over 30 years. In 2016 one of her colleagues asked if she could provide IV Ketamine Infusions for a patient with severe Treatment-Resistant Depression. The first treatment was life-changing for both the patient and the provider. The patient broke a decades-long chain of depression, joblessness, and desperation, and Shanna went on to found the first hospital-based IV ketamine infusion program in Washington State. Since then, she has provided thousands of infusions and opened the clinic here in Sun Valley where patients come from around the country to do infusions with her.
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Shanna Angel's undergraduate work at University of Utah led her to the anesthesia program at UCLA where she graduated in 1989. She is a Board Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologist, a member of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology, and has served on an Advisory Panel of the American Society of Ketamine Physicians. At Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, she performed anesthesia for thousands of cardiovascular, obstetrical, orthopedic, and neurological cases for 11 years. During her time at UCLA and Kaiser she raced for Helen's Cycles and won world, national, and state championship titles, including a World Champion Rainbow Jersey in Austria.
In 2000 she began mountaineering and moved to a critical access facility at the base of Mount Rainier. This is where she began a 20-year solo anesthesia practice. During this time, she began a family, ran a yoga studio, and founded the first hospital-based IV ketamine infusion program in Washington State.
Shanna holds certifications in Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and Basic Life Support. Her hobbies are skiing, cycling, knitting, playing the piano (and now cello!), and cooking. Her ketamine infusion skills have had a huge impact on her community in Washington, and she is excited to bring those skills to the Wood River Valley.
In 2000 she began mountaineering and moved to a critical access facility at the base of Mount Rainier. This is where she began a 20-year solo anesthesia practice. During this time, she began a family, ran a yoga studio, and founded the first hospital-based IV ketamine infusion program in Washington State.
Shanna holds certifications in Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and Basic Life Support. Her hobbies are skiing, cycling, knitting, playing the piano (and now cello!), and cooking. Her ketamine infusion skills have had a huge impact on her community in Washington, and she is excited to bring those skills to the Wood River Valley.
"The epitome of everything good in a healthcare professional." ~Jack B.
Adam Angel, Managing Partner |
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Following a two-decade career as an international mountain guide, photographer, and gallery owner, Adam moved to the Wood River Valley for his daughter to attend The Sage School and ski with SVSEF. He is a longtime believer in the healing power of psychedelic experiences and has witnessed their unrivaled potential. Not wanting to wait years for MDMA and psilocybin to become available to the public, Adam focused his energy on the obvious choice, ketamine. As early adopters, he and Shanna have taken the time to conscientiously build a nationally known practice from the ground up. During this time, they've seen that IV ketamine is the safer and more precise tool to help the greatest number of people. Adam continues, however, to believe in the potential of other substances and is positioning the clinic to offer them when approved by the FDA. Locally, Adam has served as a Trustee at The Sage School, an assistant coach for two local mountain bike teams, and was the driving force behind the founding of the Consciousness Medicine Collective. If he's not talking to you about consciousness medicine, you will find him logging miles on his bike or skis.
“Witnessing the remarkable results of these treatments brings me great joy!”
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