Leana Wen
| Leana Sheryle Wen | |
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| Born |
January 27, 1983 Shanghai, China |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | MD, MSc |
| Alma mater | California State University, Los Angeles; Washington University; Merton College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Physician, health commissioner, author |
| Notable work | When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests |
| Spouse(s) | Sebastian Walker (m. 2012) |
| Website | www |
Leana Sheryle Wen (born January 27, 1983), is a physician, public health advocate, and the health commissioner of Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. She is the author of the book When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. She previously practiced as an emergency physician at the George Washington University, where she served as a professor in the School of Medicine & Health Sciences and professor in health policy at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. 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. She also served as the national president of the American Medical Student Association and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine/Resident and Student Association.
Born in Shanghai, China on January 27, 1983, to Ying Sandy Zhang and Xiaolu Wen, Leana Sheryle Wen moved with her parents to the U.S. when she was eight years old and grew up in Los Angeles, California. Her mother was an elementary school teacher before she died from breast cancer in 2010 and her father is retired from his job as a technology manager for The Chinese Daily News in Los Angeles.
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. She received a Doctor of Medicine from Washington University School of Medicine and has two master's degrees, one in Modern Chinese studies and the other in economic and social history from the University of Oxford in England where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She also met her future husband, Sebastian Walker, during her time in England.
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