BIO

Dr. Tamara Stoner is a native of the Roaring Fork Valley and has been an anesthesiologist at Aspen Valley Hospital since 2020. Dr. Stoner graduated from Colorado College with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1984 and worked in computer administration and programming into the early 1990s. She worked on a PhD in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota before deciding to pursue a degree in medicine from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, which she earned in 2001. Dr. Stoner completed her residency in anesthesiology from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2005 and spent two years teaching at the University, including one year as an assistant professor. Since graduating, she has worked as an anesthesiologist at a number of hospitals around the state, and continues to lecture on evidence-based healthcare, sedation, airway management and advanced life-support. Dr. Stoner has an entrepreneurial side as well. She opened a consulting business in 1990 that provides statistical and econometric modeling both in and outside the healthcare field and currently focuses on development and utilization of electronic medical records. In 2020 she opened Satori Integrative Medicine Clinic in Glenwood Springs, providing evaluation and consultation for a variety of conditions, ketamine infusions, lidocaine infusions, and acupuncture, with a focus on patients with complex pain, depression, PTSD. Dr. Stoner completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Andrew Weill Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and a course in Medical Acupuncture at the Academy of Pain Medicine in San Francisco. She is glad to be living and working back home in the Roaring Fork Valley with family and friends. She loves outdoor sports, including biking, hiking, boating, skiing, and “anything else that sounds like fun.”