About Kristin Lake, B.Sc., C.V.T.

Kristin Lake is an Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Technician that has been working in the field since 2003 when she graduated high school and started in General Practice. She then moved into specialties like Medical Oncology, Large Animal and Equine Medicine, Mobile Veterinary Medicine, Shelter Animal Medicine, Orthopedic and Neurosurgery, and Emergency and Critical Care Medicine for Domestic and Exotic Animals including Anesthesia. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland in 2014 as a Social Science major and Biology minor with concentrations in Medical Sociology, Global Public Health, Epidemiology, Infectious Disease, Veterinary Public Health, Biosecurity and much more. 

In 2023 her first book was released entitled, ‘The Veterinary Technician’s Guide to Emergency and Critical Care.’  She also founded VetMedMath to tutor veterinary professionals in medical math, and founded VetMedRounds which designs veterinary specific inpatient rounding books for Technicians and DVM’s.  In 2024, Kristin was accepted to Harvard Medical School to complete a certificate in Effective Writing for Healthcare.  She enjoys lecturing on emergency and critical care veterinary topics including snakebite envenomation, antivenom, all things medical math, bandaging, hyperkalemia, emergency surgery anesthesia topics, among others.  In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her 3 cats, Remy (Remington), Gemma, and Mila (named after her favorite veterinary tubing company).