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 life changing treatment.
Shanna Angel, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologist.Shanna has been practicing 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 one of the first hospital-based IV ketamine infusion programs in Washington State. Since then, she has provided thousands of infusions and in 2019 opened the clinic here in Sun Valley where patients come from around the country to do their 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 on Mount Rainier in Washington State. This is where she began a 20-year solo anesthesia practice. During this time, she began a family, ran a yoga studio, and in 2016 founded one of the first hospital-based IV ketamine infusion programs 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 on Mount Rainier in Washington State. This is where she began a 20-year solo anesthesia practice. During this time, she began a family, ran a yoga studio, and in 2016 founded one of the first hospital-based IV ketamine infusion programs 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
Following a two-decade career as an international mountain guide, photographer and gallery owner, Adam moved to the Wood River Valley in 2016 for his daughter to attend The Sage School and ski with SVSEF. Locally, he is a Trustee at The Sage School and has been an assistant coach for two of the local mountain bike teams. In 2019 Adam and Shanna decided that it was time to commit fully to the Wood River Valley and opened the SVKC. Adam's pastimes are skiing, cycling and photography. He has seen the remarkable results of these treatments, and is excited to provide the opportunity for people to improve their quality of life with IV Ketamine Infusion Therapy.
