Dr. Shuler has lived in Colorado since age 6, growing up in the Fort Collins area. He attended Colorado Timberline Academy in Durango for high school and, after that, became an MP in the United States Army. After that, he returned to Fort Collins, where he was self-employed in a couple of different ventures before attending College at Colorado State University, where he did a double major in Botany and Zoology. After graduating, he attended medical school at Des Moines University, where he also received a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration. He then attended internship residency in emergency medicine at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. He returned to Colorado and practiced emergency medicine in a wide variety of emergency departments, including locum tenens work in multiple states, and started an urgent care business with other partners.
Dr. Shuler’s passion for addiction medicine arose from his own recovery from alcoholism over a decade ago. He began his training at Harmony Foundation and worked under and with several addiction medicine specialists in a variety of practices over the past six years. He is currently dual board-certified in addiction and emergency medicine with a subspecialty fellowship in wilderness medicine. He currently lives with his wife in Lafayette, Colorado, and has two girls, ages 23 and 26, and two step-children, ages 23 and 29.
He is the Chief Medical Officer for NRT Behavioral Health, the Medical Director for Foundry Treatment Center Steamboat, and his firm, Substance Use Disorder Consultants, LLC, provides medical director services at multiple inpatient and outpatient substance use disorder facilities throughout Colorado.
His hobbies include gourmet cooking, as much travel as possible, and various outdoor activities in Colorado.
