Leana Wen, M.D., M.Sc.
Commissioner of Health, City of Baltimore
An emergency physician and patient and community advocate, Dr. Wen was appointed to her current position in January 2015. She was previously an attending physician and Director of Patient-Centered Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The following is from testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during a November 28, 2017, hearing at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, on “Combating the Opioid Crisis.” The final report issued by the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis addresses critical aspects of the fight against the Nation’s opioid epidemic….
