Ryan Shiling, MSN, AGNP-C

Ryan is a board-certified Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner who sees patients ages 13 and older. His practice combines primary care with orthopedics, sports medicine, biologic therapies, and iron deficiency management. He considers each patient's medical history, medications, lifestyle, and overall health when developing treatment plans.

His career has progressed from Emergency Medical Technician to Medical Assistant, Registered Nurse, and Nurse Practitioner, with extensive experience at the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine and CU Sports Medicine. He co-founded Boulder Biologics with Dr. Jason Glowney in 2018 and is the clinic's Clinical Manager.

Working closely with Dr. Glowney, Ryan provides ongoing primary care and accepts new patients. He evaluates new symptoms, treats acute illnesses, manages chronic conditions and medications, and provides preventive care. The conditions he manages include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and prediabetes, thyroid disorders, anemia and iron deficiency, asthma, acid reflux (GERD), osteoporosis, and migraines. He also evaluates and treats common acute concerns, including respiratory illnesses and musculoskeletal pain.

Continuity of care is central to how Ryan practices. He follows his patients over time through regular visits, lab monitoring, patient education, and coordination with specialists. He adjusts each plan as a patient's needs and response to care change, and looks at how an underlying medical condition may be adding to fatigue, lower exercise tolerance, or slow recovery from injury.

For orthopedic and biologic treatment, Ryan evaluates musculoskeletal concerns, conducts pre-procedure consultations, and guides patients through treatment and recovery. He assists Dr. Glowney with bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) procedures. His work in the clinic's in-house laboratory includes biologic processing, protocol development, and quality oversight.

He also manages the clinic's iron infusion program, from initial consultation and laboratory review through infusion administration and follow-up. He does more than replace iron. He reviews symptoms, looks for what may be causing the deficiency, and arranges further evaluation when it's needed. In all of his work, Ryan explains plans in plain terms and builds them around each patient's health, priorities, and goals.

• Understanding the injury from your side. Ryan starts with how the injury affects your training and your work, then works back to the diagnosis and the options.
• Education first. You leave knowing what's going on, what each option can and can't do, and what realistic recovery looks like.
• One provider from evaluation to follow-up. Ryan sees you at the first evaluation and handles your follow-up visits, so the person tracking your recovery knows your case.

Ryan works with people at every activity level.

Ryan is an avid competitive cyclist who races on both road and gravel, including Colorado events such as the State Time Trial Championships, Ned Gravel, Boulder Roubaix, and SBT GRVL. Before focusing on cycling, he competed in triathlons.

As an endurance athlete, he knows from experience how hard injury is, physically and mentally, from the frustration of interrupted training to the patience it takes to return to competition. That perspective shapes his conversations with patients about treatment choices, maintaining fitness during rehabilitation, and balancing athletic goals with long-term health.

At home, Ryan enjoys life with his wife, a veterinary oncologist, his three stepdaughters, and their three dogs. With a veterinarian in the family, he knows there is always a chance another animal will join the household.