Dr. Kristin Welch is the founder of DVM STAT Consulting. Her love of teaching, passion about all things veterinary medicine, and dedication to the field of Emergency and Critical Care led to DVM STAT Consulting - a platform for education that reaches far wider than was previously possible. Dr. Welch loves solving complicated cases, decoding clinical data and most of all, helping her veterinary colleagues succeed in their drive to provide the highest caliber medicine possible to their patients.  

A 2005 graduate of Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine with Honors, she received the Small Animal Clinical Proficiency Award and the Wade O. Brinker Orthopedic Surgery Award.   Following an Internship in Medicine and Surgery at University of Pennsylvania in 2006, she completed a residency in Emergency and Critical Care at Tufts University in 2010.  She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.  Dr. Welch relocated after residency to Charleston, SC where she helped grow the Southeast’s first VECCS Level I Emergency and Critical Care certified hospital as the Chief of Emergency and Critical Care.  Most recently, she cofounded a private specialty and emergency hospital in South Carolina.

Dr. Welch enjoys complicated anesthetic cases and patients with multiple metabolic, endocrine, cardiac, respiratory and other comorbidities.  She is proficient in diagnostic abdominal, thoracic and cervical ultrasound and enjoys upper GI endoscopy and endoscopic foreign body retrieval.  Dr. Welch has an equal love for Internal Medicine and ECC. She has a strong interest in trauma and fluid resuscitation, transfusion medicine and metabolic and respiratory emergencies. 

Dr. Welch has been an active lecturer since 2006 and loves teaching. She has been an adjunct lecturer for the Veterinary Technology program at Trident Technical College. She also teaches internationally though the online platform VetScope. She has published in the Journal of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society, the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery and Clinical Veterinary Advisor. She is on the Veterinary Professionals’ NextGen NEXTBOARD as an advisor to the new generation of veterinarians.