Tamara Stoner, MD

She currently splits her professional time between hospital-based anesthesia practice and Satori Integrative Medicine Clinic in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Dr. Stoner completed medical school, an internal medicine internship, and residency in anesthesiology at the University of Colorado where she was also a Clinical Faculty Scholar and assistant professor of anesthesia. She trained in medical acupuncture at the Academy of Pain Research in San Francisco and completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Stoner has practiced anesthesia in a variety of settings in Colorado from small rural hospitals to urban community hospitals to large academic institutions.

Dr. Stoner studied Health Services Research at the University of Minnesota with special focus on statistical modelling of health behaviors and the economics of health care. She has taught extensively on topics of evidence-based medicine, safe sedation practices, perioperative pain management, and anesthesiology.
At Satori Integrative Medicine, her approach to integrative medicine blends science-based tools from a full range of medical traditions and alternative/complementary modalities to help patients optimize their individual mental and physical health. Dr. Stoner has been studying and utilizing ketamine as a treatment for pain for more than 20 years and currently uses it extensively in her clinic for both pain management and to treat mental health conditions.