Shari Kiehnbaum, PA-C

About Shari

Shari Kiehnbaum is a physician assistant at Valley View’s Roaring Fork Family Practice. She earned bachelor’s degrees in German and Biology at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota before attaining her MS in Physician Assistant Studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Before joining the Valley View family, Shari was a family medicine physician assistant with Aspen Medical Care, where she started in 2010. She has a broad scope of experience including chronic health management, urgent care, sports medicine, women’s health, and infant care.

Shari moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in 2003, after growing up in Minnesota and vacationing frequently in the Colorado mountains. “I love the active, health-conscious community here,” she says. “After school, I wanted to end up somewhere with the recreational opportunities I grew up loving. Athletics has always been an important part of my life--I love the way I feel when I’m moving and I try to impart that same love to my patients. Moving to Valley View gives me the chance to treat a community, rather than the more transient visitors that I usually worked with in Aspen.”

“I’m a huge believer in lifestyle medicine,” she continues. “Helping patients manage their conditions and meeting them where they are, that’s the most rewarding thing about what I do.” Shari lives her healthy lifestyle mantra, too—she has enjoyed living as a vegan for the last eleven years and was a vegetarian for another nine years before that. In her spare time, Shari enjoys outdoor activities including long-distance backpacking, and she’s taken on significant portions of the Appalachian Trail as well as the Four Loop Pass in Aspen.