Laura Warren, MD is a psychiatry faculty member at Cambridge Health Alliance and a Part-Time Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. She was formerly the Associate Director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program and the Associate Director of the Advanced Clinical Mindfulness Fellowship at CHA. She is a senior faculty member at CHA’s Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, and is on the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. She is co-editor of The Anti-Burnout Card Deck: 54 Mindfulness and Compassion Practices to Refresh Your Clinical Work. Since 2022, she has been a Course Director for CHA's annual conference on Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. Her interests include medical education, burnout prevention, the mind-body relationship, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. She works in private practice with a focus on mindfulness-based therapy and holistic approaches to healing.
Featured News: CMC was awarded a research grant titled “Neural and physiologic effects of self-compassion on chronic pain” from the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. This grant provides seed funding for a pilot neuroimaging study examining self-compassion training for people experiencing chronic lower back pain.
