Dr. Lauren M. Osborne 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 the 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, and she runs the PIPPI Lab – Psychoneuroimmunology in Pregnancy and Postpartum – at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is also the chair of the Education Committee for Marcé of North America and founder and chair of the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry, a free web-based standardized curriculum.

Her work has been supported by the Brain and Behavior Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the NIMH.