Kristen Lise Welsh

Kristen's interest in communication stems from her early childhood experience of stuttering and speech therapy. "Communication is the one thing that every human can admit needing a little help in. No one can communicate perfectly. I can't, but I strive to do it better every day," she says. Growing up in North Carolina, her mother would take her to different health departments and hospitals, sharing stories of the emergency room. Kristen was fascinated by the medical field. After witnessing first-hand the frustration of coordination and planning in the medical field, Kristen endeavors to combine her interests of communication and medicine to improve patient care and safety while optimizing the efficiency of medical team communication.