Leana Wen

Leana Wen Sheryle (born January 27, 1983) is a physician, public health advocate, and the health commissioner or Baltimore City, Maryland , USA. She is the author of the book When Doctors Do not Listen: How to Avoid Unnecessary Tests and Misdiagnoses. ^[1] She voorheen practiced as an emergency physician at the George Washington University , where she served as a professor in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and professor of health policy at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. ^[2] Prior to this, she was an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital , where she was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School . ^[3] She’ll be served as the national president of the American Medical Student Association and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine / Resident and Student Association. ^[4]

Early life and education

Born in Shanghai, China on January 27, 1983, ^[5] to Ying Sandy Zhang and Xiaolu Wen, ^[6] Leana Sheryle Win ^[7] moved with re parents to the US-when she was eight years old and Grew up in Los Angeles California . ^[8] Her mother was an elementary school teacher voordat she mayest from breast cancer in 2010 ^{[7] [9]} and re Father is retired from his job as a technical manager for The Chinese Daily News in Los Angeles. ^[3]

Wen attended California State University, Los Angeles and in 2001, she graduated summa cum laude at age 18 with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. ^{[6] [8]} She RECEIVED a Doctor of Medicine from Washington University School of Medicine and has two master’s degrees, one in Modern Chinese studies ^[10] and the other in economic and social history from the University of Oxford in England where she was a Rhodes Scholar . She’ll be with re future husband, Sebastian Walker, prolongation re time in England. ^[3]

In 2005, Wen took a one-year leave of Absence from medical school to serve as the national president of the American Medical Student Association , ^[6] where she led campaigns to increase is health care access, decrease health disparities, and combat conflicts of interest tussen physicians and the pharmaceutical companies who notoriously use attractive sales representatives and free gifts to influence doctors, met name young interns and medical residents. ^{[11] [12]} Wen became involved in US and international health policy prolongation medical school, serving in Geneva, Switzerland as a fellow for the World Health Organization and in Rwanda as a fellow for the US Department of Defense . ^[6] In addition under, she advised the US Congress on physician workforce and medical education through re appointment on the Council on Graduate Medical Education by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services . ^{[8] [13]}

Career

Following medical school, Wen COMPLETED residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General) and a clinical fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston . She is board certified in emergency medicine. ^[2] She was married to South Africa native, Sebastian Neil Walker, in February 2012, ^[3] and started working in emergency medicine at BWH and Mass General voordat moving to the ER at the George Washington University (GW) in Washington, DC , ^[10] where she became a professor of emergency and health policy, and the Director of Patient-Centered Care Research. ^[14] She served as a consultant to the Brookings Institution and the China Medical Board , and conducted international health systems research zoals in South Africa, Slovenia, Nigeria, Singapore, and China. ^[15]

Patient advocacy

In 2013, St. Martin’s Press published re book, When Doctors Do not Listen: How to Avoid Unnecessary Tests and Misdiagnoses. ^[1] It is about how patients kan take control hun health to advocate for better care for themselves. ^{[16] [17]}

Wen wrote a blog, The Doctor is listening. ^[18] She has a leg regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Psychology Today on patient empowerment and healthcare reform. ^{[19] [20]} She has leg an advisor to the newly Agent Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute , ^[21] and an advisor to the Lown Institute and the Medical Education Futures Study. ^[22] She is the founder of a Who’s My Doctor, an international campaign therein calls for transparency in medicine. ^[23]

Winning is a frequent keynote speaker on healthcare reform, education, and leadership, and has bepaald verschillende TED Talks . Her TED talk on transparency in medicine has leg viewed over 1.5 million times. ^{[14] [24] [25] [26]}

Baltimore City health commissioner

In January 2015, Wen was appointed by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to serve as the health commissioner . In this role, she oversees the Baltimore City Health Department , an agency or 1,100 employees and $ 130 million annual budget with wide-ranging responsibilities waaronder management or acute communicable diseases, animal control, chronic disease prevention, emergency preparedness, food service inspections, HIV / AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal-child health, school health, senior services and youth violence issues.

She directed the city’s public health policymaking recovery after the 2015 Baltimore protests , zoals ensuring prescription Medication Access to seniors after the closure of 13 pharmacies and ontwikkelingslanden the Mental Health / Trauma Recovery Plan, with 24/7 crisis counseling and healing circles and group counseling in Schools, community groups, and Churches. ^{[27] [28]} In the wake of the 2015 Baltimore protests , the Baltimore City Health Department team launched numerous campaigns, zoals a citywide trauma response plan, youth health and wellness strategy, violence prevention programs, B’Healthy in B’More blog en B’More Health Talks, a biweekly town hall and podcast series on health disparities. ^{[8] [29] [30] [31] [32]}

Opioid overdose

Wen has led implementation of the Baltimore opioid overdose prevention and response plan, welke includes, “hotspotting” and street outreach teams to target personen must at risk, training family / friends on naloxone use, and launching a new public education campaign. ^[33] Wen testified to the US Senate HELP Committee and US House Oversight Committee on Baltimore’s overdose prevention efforts. She led a group of state and city health officials to petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Adding black box warnings to opioids and benzodiazepines . ^{[34] [35]} In March 2016, she was Invited to the White House to join President Barack Obama and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta on a panel discussion, where she ghosts about Baltimore’s responses. ^[36] She convened doctors and public health leaders to sign the Baltimore Statement on the Importance of Childhood Vaccinations ^[37] and to successfully advocate to ban the sale or powdered alcohol in Maryland and synthetic drugs in Baltimore. ^{[38] [39]} In May 2016, she served as the COMMENCEMENT speaker for the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Notre Dame of Maryland University, where she was Awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. ^{[40] [41]}

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