Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. She is also a contributing columnist for the Washington Post and a CNN medical analyst.

Previously, she served as Baltimore’s health commissioner, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously-operating public health department.

She is the author of the book, When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) and a forthcoming memoir, Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health (Metropolitan, July 2021).

Wen lives with her husband and two young children in Baltimore.