Bio

Dr. Leana Wen is a practicing physician and healthcare executive. She serves as an independent board member of Glaukos Corporation (NYSE: GKOS) and (NASDAQ: URGN), and is on the audit committee of both boards. She also serves as chair of the advisory board of the Behavioral Health Group; is a member of the board of directors of the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Baltimore Community Foundation; and on the advisory boards of Shatterproof, B-Generous, and MANUAL. Her previous board experience includes being board chair of Behavioral Health System Baltimore and serving on boards and advisory boards of a dozen nonprofit and venture-backed health innovation companies. Committee service has included being chair of the governance committee; board secretary and treasurer; and member of audit and finance, oversight, and investment committees. Dr. Wen has extensive experience in public policy and regulatory affairs, including having served as the health commissioner for the city of Baltimore, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operating health department to combat the opioid epidemic and improve maternal and child health. She has conducted health systems research in China, South Africa, United Kingdom, and Rwanda. An expert in public health, she is a professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, writing on health policy and public health, and an on-air commentator for CNN. Dr. Wen obtained her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine and studied health and economic policy at the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. While in the U.K., she worked as an equity research analyst for Lehman Brothers. She completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of two books, When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) and Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health (Metropolitan Books, 2021). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Wen has received recognition as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, and Governing’s Public Official of the Year. In 2017 and 2019, Modern Healthcare named her one of their 50 top clinician executives and in 2021 one of their most influential people in healthcare.