Claudia Osborn is an Associate Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is an advisor on TBI education and prevention to government agencies including the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington DC, and the Michigan Department of Health. When her schedule permits, she teaches first year medical students at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, but most of her professional time is spent lecturing throughout North America on traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.

Earlier in her career, she was a physician with an office and hospital practice in Detroit who also instructed   interns and residents. That life ended abruptly one summer evening when her bicycle was struck by an automobile and she sustained a traumatic brain injury. She underwent extensive rehabilitation in Manhattan at the Brain Injury Day Treatment Program of New York University Medical Center founded by Dr.Yehuda Ben-Yishay.

Following her return to her home in Michigan, she began writing. At first, it was a form of therapy. It soon became a cause in itself borne of a need to "be understood by others." Even with the assistance of her mother, who organized her notes and journals and edited her manuscript, the book took seven years to complete.

Over My Head, which Publisher's Weekly calls "exceptionally well written," was published by Andrews McMeel in April, 1998. It was an Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild Book Club, and a condensed book in the March, 1998 edition of The Reader's Digest. In the spring of 2001, she was honored by Psychology Today for her contribution to mental health.

Dr. Osborn is a graduate of Vassar College and Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists.