Lauren Osborne, M.D.

Biography

Lauren M. Osborne, M.D., graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College and received her training at Columbia University / New York State Psychiatric Institute. She completed both clinical and research fellowships in women's mental health, and is an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy, the postpartum, the premenstrual period, and perimenopause.

Dr. Osborne serves as Vice Chair of Clinical Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research focuses on the biological mechanisms of perinatal mental illness, with a focus on neurosteroids and the immune system. She also runs the Psychoneuroimmunology in Pregnancy and Postpartum (PIPPI) Lab at Weill Cornell.

Her clinical work consists of collaborative care for perinatal mental health within OB/GYN. She is also chair of the Education Committee for Marcé of North America; founder and chair of the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry, a free web-based standardized curriculum; and an editor of The APA Textbook of Women’s Reproductive Mental Health. Her work has been supported by the Brain and Behavior Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the National Institute of Mental Health.