Dr. Lauren Davis has been hired to be the Island Physician
Dear Fishers Island Community Member,
Great News from Island Health Project!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lauren Davis has been hired to be the Island Physician.
Dr. Davis is board certified in family medicine and urgent care and has been most recently practicing in New Jersey. She and her husband, Craig, also a physician, have two sons who will be enrolled at the Fishers Island School this Fall, and they are expecting their third child in November.
Dr. Davis’ official start date is August 15th. The Doctor’s Office will continue with visiting physicians until that date. As always, please call the Doctor’s Office for an appointment if needed. Please view Fishersisland.net or the IHP website for the schedule of visiting physician names and dates.
Island Health Project is excited to introduce Dr. Davis and her family to the Fishers Island community with plenty more information to follow very soon!
Diane Baker
Chair, Board of Directors
Board of Directors:
Diane Baker, Chair; Maisie Pollard, Vice Chair; Richard Miller, Chief Investment Officer; Ace Crary, Treasurer; William Fiske, Secretary; Susie Parsons, Chair Emerita
Carol Blondel; William Colman, MD; Susie Ferguson; Leslie Goss; Katie Harris; Leslie Hotchkiss Hayes, MD; Sara McLean; Malcolm Miller; Isabel Phillips; Sarah Rose
Lauren Davis, DO, FMCP-M
Dr. Lauren Davis brings a combination of primary care knowledge, urgent care experience, and functional medicine depth to her role on Fishers Island. She is triple board-certified in Family Medicine, Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine, and Functional Medicine, and is a graduate of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona through their integrative medicine in residency program.
Dr. Davis earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Lincoln Memorial University’s DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she was selected as an undergraduate fellow through the National Undergraduate Fellows Association (NUFA), teaching anatomy and osteopathic manipulation to second-year medical students. She also served as the NUFA representative of LMU to the National Council.
She completed her residency training at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York, in an integrated program combining Family Medicine and Osteopathic Neuromuscular Medicine, where she served as Chief Resident and Vice Chair of the National Resident Council of the American Osteopathic Association.
Following residency, Dr. Davis spent two and a half years providing frontline urgent care during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, managing high-acuity, high-volume presentations across a broad patient population. At the end of the pandemic, Dr. Davis went into private practice in Southern New Jersey.
Currently in her practice, Dr. Davis provides concierge care in home across the Jersey Shore and virtually, with a focus on maternal and infant health, complex multi-system conditions, and neurodivergent heath in children and adults. Her osteopathic training adds a hands-on, structural dimension to her assessments, while her functional medicine background allows her to look beyond surface-level symptoms to identify root causes that standard workups often miss. She has particular expertise in mast cell activation, connective tissue disorders, dysautonomia, Lyme disease, and neurodivergence.
That clinical focus is rooted in something personal. After her own postpartum recovery, Dr. Davis recognized a striking parallel to what she had learned as a collegiate athlete: that true recovery is not passive, it is a structured, physiological process that demands the same rigor as performance preparation. That insight became the foundation of her practice, and ultimately prompted her to author Thrive, Mama! The Ultimate Postpartum Blueprint and develop educational courses designed to fill the gap she had lived through herself.
Dr. Davis also serves as a content creator for McGraw Hill’s Boards and Beyond platform, where she develops osteopathic medical education resources for students preparing for board examinations, extending her teaching mission to the next generation of physicians.
Dr. Davis believes that good medicine begins with being genuinely known by your physician. On an island where access to specialized care requires planning, she is committed to providing continuity, clinical thoroughness, and responsive care that her patients can rely on year-round.
Before medicine, Dr. Davis was a Division III All-American pitcher and ESPN Pitcher of the Year at Ursinus College, a background that shaped her precision, resilience, and commitment to performance at every level. She brings that same standard to the care she provides her patients.
