Dr. Leana Wen
Keynote Speaker: Leading Authority on Healthcare, Washington Post Columnist, CNN Medical Analyst, Physician, Professor & Author
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Categories:Cancer, Authors, Family & Parenting, Women's Health, TED, Health, Healthcare, Non-Profit & Association, Leadership, Obesity, Public Health, Global Health, Virtual, Female Leadership, Women, Writing, Literary, Nutrition, Generational Issues, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Motivational, Thought Leadership
Dr. Leana Wen Biography
Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician, CNN medical analyst, and op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes a weekly column and anchors the Post newsletter, "The Checkup with Dr. Wen". She is also a professor of health policy and management at George Washington University, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of two books, "When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses" and "Unnecessary Tests and Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health."
Previously, she served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operating health department in the U.S. to fight the opioid epidemic, treat violence and racism as public health issues, and improve maternal and child health.
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.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Wen has received recognition as one of Governing's Public Officials of the Year, Modern Healthcare's Top 50 Physician-Executives, World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, and TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People. Dr. Wen lives with her husband and their two young children in Baltimore.
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Dr. Leana Wen Speaking Topics
CNN medical analyst Dr. Wen has been one of the nation’s leading experts during the COVID-19 pandemic, called upon for her expertise by Congress, state and local governments, businesses, schools/universities, and scientific organizations. She can speak to the learnings from COVID-19 and what it has revealed about the need to focus on social determinants of health, public health preparedness, and care for the most vulnerable. She can then look forward to the future. What are major trends in payment reform, health workforce, and medical technology, and how will they, in the recovery from the pandemic, shape the future of public policy and healthcare delivery?
The stress that employees have endured during the pandemic will not vanish after the immediate crisis passes. Employees have been coping with isolation, dealing with loss, acting as caregivers, and struggling with childcare. Dr. Wen brings audiences a world of insights and understanding from her work as a practicing physician, former Health Commissioner of Baltimore, and chairwoman of a nonprofit addressing mental health and addiction. She shares personal experiences (including her own battle with postpartum depression and her experience as caregiver to her ailing mother), best practices on employee health and well-being, and strategies for developing resiliency. And she outlines for audiences a framework for incorporating mental and physical wellness practices into the office, home, and everyday life.
Dr. Wen is a leading national expert on health disparities. During the COVID-19 crisis, she was asked to testify four times to the U.S. House of Representatives on the unequal impact of the pandemic on communities of color. While she served as Baltimore’s health commissioner, she reconfigured the agency to specifically focus on health equity and was among the first leaders to declare racism as a public health crisis. She can speak from the lens of current events on how COVID-19 has unmasked existing disparities and specifically focus on innovative solutions that reduce disparities and improve health in the short-term, as well as long-term efforts to address structural inequities. Here, she draws upon lessons in her new book, Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health, and gives specific examples of successful innovations that reduce disparities and improve equity.
Women, and women leaders, face distinctive challenges in the workplace. Trained in trauma/ER medicine and having been one of many “firsts” as a woman of color, Dr. Wen speaks from first-hand experience and from her professional research about the challenges and opportunities for women in leadership. These include advice for women about the “double bind” and “glass cliff,” such as owning one’s authentic identity and negotiating societal expectations. Dr. Wen also gives talks in crisis leadership, innovative leadership, and overcoming adversity. These include lessons from innovative leadership locally and nationally, drawing upon her background convening unlikely stakeholders around shared goals; leading collective impact, public-private collaborations in public health; and getting to points of agreement in turbulent political environments.
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Dr. Leana Wen is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Cancer, Authors, Family & Parenting, Women's Health, TED, Health, Healthcare, Non-Profit & Association, Leadership, Obesity, Public Health, Global Health, Virtual, Female Leadership, Women, Writing, Literary, Nutrition, Generational Issues, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Motivational and Thought Leadership.
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Dr. Leana Wen Speaking Topics
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Lessons from COVID-19 and Implications for the Future of Healthcare
CNN medical analyst Dr. Wen has been one of the nation’s leading experts during the COVID-19 pandemic, called upon for her expertise by Congress, state and local governments, businesses, schools/universities, and scientific organizations. She can speak to the learnings from COVID-19 and what it has revealed about the need to focus on social determinants of health, public health preparedness, and care for the most vulnerable. She can then look forward to the future. What are major trends in payment reform, health workforce, and medical technology, and how will they, in the recovery from the pandemic, shape the future of public policy and healthcare delivery?
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Mental Health and Well-Being
The stress that employees have endured during the pandemic will not vanish after the immediate crisis passes. Employees have been coping with isolation, dealing with loss, acting as caregivers, and struggling with childcare. Dr. Wen brings audiences a world of insights and understanding from her work as a practicing physician, former Health Commissioner of Baltimore, and chairwoman of a nonprofit addressing mental health and addiction. She shares personal experiences (including her own battle with postpartum depression and her experience as caregiver to her ailing mother), best practices on employee health and well-being, and strategies for developing resiliency. And she outlines for audiences a framework for incorporating mental and physical wellness practices into the office, home, and everyday life.
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Reducing health disparities and striving for health equity
Dr. Wen is a leading national expert on health disparities. During the COVID-19 crisis, she was asked to testify four times to the U.S. House of Representatives on the unequal impact of the pandemic on communities of color. While she served as Baltimore’s health commissioner, she reconfigured the agency to specifically focus on health equity and was among the first leaders to declare racism as a public health crisis. She can speak from the lens of current events on how COVID-19 has unmasked existing disparities and specifically focus on innovative solutions that reduce disparities and improve health in the short-term, as well as long-term efforts to address structural inequities. Here, she draws upon lessons in her new book, Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health, and gives specific examples of successful innovations that reduce disparities and improve equity.
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Women in Leadership
Women, and women leaders, face distinctive challenges in the workplace. Trained in trauma/ER medicine and having been one of many “firsts” as a woman of color, Dr. Wen speaks from first-hand experience and from her professional research about the challenges and opportunities for women in leadership. These include advice for women about the “double bind” and “glass cliff,” such as owning one’s authentic identity and negotiating societal expectations. Dr. Wen also gives talks in crisis leadership, innovative leadership, and overcoming adversity. These include lessons from innovative leadership locally and nationally, drawing upon her background convening unlikely stakeholders around shared goals; leading collective impact, public-private collaborations in public health; and getting to points of agreement in turbulent political environments.
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Dr. Leana Wen Reviews
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Oklahoma State Department of Health - May 19 2022
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Dr. Wen is a powerful and charismatic speaker who seems to naturally connect to her audience with a warm, relaxed, informative and enjoyable style of speech. My students were enlightened and entertained. Dr. Wen is a smart, conversational treat for the senses.
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As a pre-medical student, I have often been told that my desire to make a difference in my community and help change the system to better patient care and outcomes is naive thinking and that I will change once I finish medical school. Dr. Wen is the first physician to tell me that I can make a different if I strive to do so and maintain my goals and ideologies. Not only is she a true inspiration for pre-medical students, but a model of how a physician should treat and interact with their patients. Her ability to speak and explain her various viewpoints is outstanding and left a deep impression on me. She not only dispelled a great deal of healthcare issue myths, but provided incite on the true issues pertaining to healthcare and ways to make a difference in the healthcare community, as a physician and as a patient.
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Dr. Wen is a very captivating speaker. Her stories are really interesting and make her message more relatable. Overall, I really enjoyed listening to her talk about the importance of patient care and feel motivated to be a better advocate for the patients in the future as a physician.
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Our Rotary Club really enjoyed meeting and talking with Dr. Wen. As we discussed “When Doctors Don’t Listen” we had some really interesting discussions about our interactions with Doctors and how we can make our time with them more of a partnership (Doctors getting better information from us, us feeling better about how we are being treated). As our organization is active in the Everett community, we also discussed how different backgrounds and language barriers can further complicate interactions between patients and doctors. It was beneficial for our group to meet Dr. Wen, discuss her book and put some more thought into how we can better get doctors to “listen” to us as patients going forward (for us and our loved ones).
Unknown - Sep 19 2014
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Dr. Leana Wen News
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How to keep kids safe from COVID-19 in school
The highly transmissible delta variant has driven up cases across the country, while many people, weary of the prolonged pandemic, have started to let their guard down. The current combination of factors make this moment possibly “the most dangerous time in the pandemic since it began,” Dr. Leana Wen, professor of public health at George Washington University, told PBS NewsHour correspondent William Brangham Wednesday.
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Physician Leana Wen Is a Public-Health Pragmatist
A Rhodes scholar and ER veteran works to address the root causes of medical problems before they become emergencies
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CNN’s Leana Wen: ‘Public health is now under attack in a way that it has not been before’
Leana Wen is a physician, a CNN medical analyst, a contributing columnist at The Washington Post, and a former Baltimore health commissioner. Her latest book, “Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health,” was released in July 2021
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Dr. Leana Wen's Weekly Column - The Washington Post
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