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Dr. Leana Sheryle Wen is a physician, writer, and public health leader She is a frequent keynote speaker at medical conferences and is author of the book ''When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests.'' In January 2015, Dr. Wen was appointed by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to serve as the Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City, where she oversees an agency of 1,100 employees and $130 million annual budget with wide-ranging responsibilities including management of acute communicable diseases, animal control, chronic disease prevention, emergency preparedness, food service inspections, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal-child health, school health, senior services, and youth violence issues. She has led critical efforts after the 2015 Baltimore protests, including in medication and food access and in mental health and trauma recovery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/working-a-million-hours-to-heal-a-city/396071 )〕 Prior to her service to Baltimore City, she practiced as an emergency physician at 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. Previously, 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. Selected as the winner of Nicholas Kristof's Win-A-Trip contest, she wrote for ''The New York Times'' on health and conflict.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://twofortheroad.blogs.nytimes.com/ )〕 She was selected by the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services to serve on the Council on Graduate Medical Education to advise the U.S. Congress on medical education and health workforce planning.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cogme.ogv )〕 A regular blogger for National Public Radio, Huffington Post and Psychology Today, she is a noted patient advocate and public health expert. She is also a frequent keynote speaker on healthcare reform, education, and leadership, and TED speaker. Her TED talk on transparency in medicine has been viewed over 1.3 million times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.whartoncenter.com/events/detail/leana-wen )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.drleanawen.com/styled-6/styled-24/testimonials.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqXfpOu8bNY )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ted.com/talks/leana_wen_what_your_doctor_won_t_disclose )〕 ==Education and training== Wen was born and raised in Shanghai, China. Five years after immigrating to the U.S. not speaking any English, she entered California State University, Los Angeles, at age 13, and graduated'' summa cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry at age 18.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/ppa/newsrel/leanawen.htm )〕 She received multiple undergraduate awards and had the choice of eight fully funded medical school scholarships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/ppa/newsrel/grad01final.htm )〕 Wen matriculated at Washington University School of Medicine where she became a noted activist and student leader. In 2005, she was elected the first ever Asian-American National President of the American Medical Student Association by its 65,000 members, and led the organization to reform medical education and expand its PharmFree campaign.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pharmfree.org/campaign?id=0004 )〕 Under her leadership, AMSA helped introduce three pieces of legislation in the 107th Congress and founded the Medical Student Disaster Relief Program in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Wen trained as a resident physician in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.haemr.org/people/residents-pgy4 )〕 She was a clinical fellow and faculty at Harvard Medical School and practiced emergency medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://radioboston.wbur.org/2013/01/15/doctors )〕 She was one of the doctors who took care of the 2013 Boston marathon victims in the Mass General ER. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leana Wen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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