Sarah Osmundson, MD, MS

Sarah Osmundson is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Vanderbilt University. Originally from Chicago, she attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in anthropology and biology. After graduating, she taught high school biology at Juarez High School in Chicago with Teach for America. She attended medical school at the University of Illinois at Chicago and did her residency in OB/Gyn at Northwestern. She did her fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Stanford and also completed a Master’s in Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Since starting at Vanderbilt, her research primarily examines opioid prescribing after childbirth through both clinical trials and epidemiological data. Dr. Osmundson serves on the publications committee for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, collaborating with MFMs across the United States on guidelines for clinical practice. In August 2019 she was awarded a 5-year Career Development Award through the National Institutes of Health. She and her husband have three kids and a new puppy.