Dr. Carl Bonnett, MD

Dr. Bonnett is the Founder & Medical Director of Klarisana. He is an ABEM certified emergency physician. He trained at the Denver Health Medical Center Residency in Emergency Medicine and also completed a fellowship in EMS/Disaster Medicine at the same institution. He also served over 20 years in the Army National Guard (LTC-ret) and served on four overseas deployments in support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. He received the Combat Medical Badge while deployed to Afghanistan with the 41st Brigade Combat Team in 2007. Dr. Bonnett has significant clinical experience with the use of ketamine in the emergency department and forward deployed environments. He is one of the leading physicians in the US in the use of Ketamine for Non-Anesthetic Indications (KNAI). Dr. Bonnett is also one of the founding members of the American Society of Ketamine Physicians (ASKP.org) and currrently serves as the organization's Treasurer.Klarisana’s HistoryKlarisana was founded in 2015, by Dr. …Carl J. Bonnett, MD. Dr. Bonnett had become very frustrated with the alarming suicide rate among US military veterans. At the same time, he was also very concerned about the many other veterans who’s symptoms of PTSD, depression, and chronic pain were being poorly controlled. As an emergency physician, Dr. Bonnett had extensive experience with ketamine in both emergency medicine and in forward-deployed military environments. The concept that ketamine could actually treat severe depression, PTSD and other mental health conditions represented a radical but exciting paradigm shift in the traditional use of ketamine. Against this background, Klarisana was born in an austere one room office on the north side of San Antonio. We now can look back and smile knowing that this 12 x 20 foot office was probably the “smallest ketamine clinic in the world.” It was also the first center in southern Texas that was created from the ground up with the express purpose of providing ketamine infusion therapy. At the time, there were only a handful of ketamine centers in the US. We had patients flying to San Antonio from all around the country to receive treatment. We continued to perfect the process of administering outpatient ketamine and we were impressed by the positive changes that ketamine brought to our patients. Today our San Antonio campus operates out of a much larger facility that offers a safe and tranquil environment. Additionally we have opened our second campus in Austin, Texas. Klarisana continues to lead the way as the first center in Texas to embrace the concept of ketamine facilitated psychotherapy.