Leana Wen

Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University’s Milken School of Public Health, where she is also a distinguished fellow at the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. She is an expert in public health preparedness and previously served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner. A contributing columnist for The Washington Post, Dr. Wen is a frequent guest commentator on the covid-19 crisis as a CNN medical analyst.

Dr. Wen obtained her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine and studied health policy at the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She completed her residency training at Brigham & Women's Hospital & Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School. The author of dozens of scientific articles on emergency systems and patient-centered health reform, Dr. Wen is also the author of the book When Doctors Don't Listen. She has received recognition as one of Governing's Public Officials of the Year and the American Public Health Association's top award for local public health. In 2019, she was named one of Modern Healthcare's Top 50 Physician-Executives and TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

EDUCATION

• MD, Washington University
• MSc, University of Oxford
• BS, California State University, Los Angeles