Dr. Danielle Williams grew up in an Air Force family living in countries from Belgium to Japan throughout her childhood. Her family always traveled with their pets and she developed her love of animals at a very young age. Dr. Williams was driven to help the sickest of the sick animals and succeeded in becoming board certified in emergency and critical care to join our VCA Highlands Ranch team as our first criticalist in 2022.

Dr. Williams earned her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine degree from Ross University in 2011. She went on to challenge herself in a Small Animal Rotating Internship in Glendale, CA, followed by two years of overnight emergency veterinary work in Thousand Oaks, CA, which she cared for exotics as well as dogs and cats, and performed emergency surgeries. She decided to embark on three years of residency training in Emergency and Critical Care after that, in Los Angeles, CA. Her board certification in Emergency and Critical Care was attained in 2020 and she has been happy doing her best to save lives in this capacity ever since!

Special interests of Dr. Williams include: ventilator patient care, critical care procedures such as chest tube, central line, feeding tube, urinary catheter placements, CPR and care of the septic patient.

In her free time, Dr. Williams continues to enjoy traveling, but is also totally happy staying home spending time with her husband, kids, three lovely cats and a Betta fish.