Lauren Prince is the co-founder and CEO of Operations + Strategic Vision at Connective Wellness, built from a simple but radical idea: create the clinic she spent years searching for—and never found.

As someone living with complex, overlapping chronic conditions, Lauren knows firsthand what it feels like to be dismissed, misdiagnosed, and left to navigate a fragmented system alone. Connective Wellness was created in direct response to that reality. It is a deliberately different model of care—innovative, collaborative, and deeply patient-centered—designed for people whose bodies don’t fit neatly into traditional medical boxes.

Lauren is the architect behind how Connective Wellness works. From the care model and patient experience to how clinicians collaborate and communicate, she is actively building a system that reflects what patients actually need: coordinated care, longitudinal thinking, and providers who listen. Her approach blends lived experience with constant innovation, ensuring care is not only evidence-informed, but humane, adaptable, and grounded in real life.

Her work is also personal and forward-looking. As the parent of a child with hypermobile EDS and related comorbidities, Lauren is building the kind of care she wants available not just now, but decades from now—so fewer patients grow up struggling through the same gaps she did.

In parallel, Lauren is a co-founder of WellnectaDx, where she develops new diagnostic and assessment tools for complex chronic illness. That work informs and strengthens Connective Wellness, allowing patient experience, clinical insight, and innovation to move forward together.

Lauren is a patient champion—driven by the belief that people with complex conditions deserve to be believed, supported, and cared for in systems designed with them, not around them.