Meet your provider

Todd Merkley is a board certified nurse anesthesiologist.  Todd, between his years as a critical care R.N. and his current anesthesia practice, has enjoyed serving the Idaho Falls area for 20 years.  He has extensive experience with the provision of Ketamine within the operating room, office sedation and ketamine clinic settings.   Todd has practiced anesthesia in Idaho falls for 10 years and is currently the co-director of Mountain View Hospital's labor and delivery anesthesia department, he also provides sedation services to many of our local dental offices and has been pleased to offer Ketamine infusions, for the treatment of mood disorders, in the Idaho Falls area for over 3 years.

Todd and his beautiful wife, Nicole, have 7 children between the ages of 5 and 23 years of age. As a family they enjoy dirt and mountain bike riding, automotive racing, camping with the grand parents, photography and among others baseball.  Todd is intensely competitive so its particularly amusing to watch his 13 year old son repeatedly slaughter him in a game of Call of Duty.  

Nicole has worked in the medical field for 20 years doing a number of jobs which includes nursing, X-rays, phlebotomy, and managing medical clinics. Her passion has always been caring for patients. Together with her husband Todd Merkley, they established Sunrise Ketamine Clinic three years ago to serve the mental health needs of the greater Idaho Falls area. They make a great husband and wife team with their shared passion for taking care of patients, who they call their ketamine family.