Lauren (she/her) served as an Active Duty Navy Nurse beginning in 2007 and deployed several times as an adult and pediatric critical care nurse.  She then transitioned to the Navy Reserves in 2014 and used her GI Bill to complete her master’s degree at Georgetown University, becoming a family nurse practitioner.  In 2016, she came to HealthLinc in Northwest Indiana to participate in the first cohort of their Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program.  She has been a preceptor for the accredited program and participating in the residency interviewing process since 2020.  She is a member of the EHR Superuser Committee and is passionate about knowledge sharing, inclusiveness, and harm reduction.