Growing up surfing and camping in Southern California, she explored other outdoor activities leaving the desert for medical school and New England. Graduated in 2015, completing her Emergency Medicine residency in 2018.   She obtained her Wilderness Medicine fellowship in 2019.

Lauren currently works at Portland Adventist in the Emergency Department and stills enjoys the outdoors as much as possible.

She instructs wilderness medicine courses, including the AWLS (Advance Wilderness Life Support) course, and has delivered wilderness medicine lectures all over the world including on a dive boat in the Bahamas, in a tent on Mt. Kilimanjaro, and on a bus in Guatamala.