Dr. Lauren Grawert is a double board certified addiction psychiatrist. She received her medical degree from Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine and has been in practice 15 years. She speaks multiple languages, including Spanish. She was Chief of Psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic from 2018-2022. She is currently the Chief Medical Officer at Aware Recovery Care. She enjoys working with the media in her spare time to reduce stigma around mental illness and addiction. She has been interviewed by SAMHSA on Co-Occurring Disorders and most recently published articles in Capital Psychiatry and Northern Virginia Magazine.