Catherine "Bizz" Grimes obtained her nursing degree in 2003 from the School of Nursing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Upon receipt of her degree, she worked with the high-risk obstetric population on the Obstetric Intensive Care Unit at Indiana University Health, University Hospital for ten years. After a three-month respite, she returned to work as an Ambulatory Nurse Clinician in the Prenatal Diagnosis Clinic at Indiana University Health, University Hospital. She naturally gravitated toward the opioid use disorder population within the first year of working as an outpatient nurse. Prior to obtaining her nursing degree, she spent 10years working as a Reference Assistant and Interlibrary Loan Coordinator at the Roy O. West Library at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.