Explore Leana Wen net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! born Wen Linyan (Wen Lin Yan ) in Shanghai on the 27th of January 1983 in the home of Ying Sandy Zhang and Xiaolu Wen, Wen moved with her parents to the U.S. when she was eight years old, and was then given an English title Leana Sherylle Wen. As a political asylum holder, the Wen family resided within Compton in Compton and East Los Angeles in Southern California. After 2003 Wen along with her whole family were granted U.S. citizens. In this article, we will discover how old is Leana Wen? Who is Leana Wen dating now & how much money does Leana Wen have?

Name	Leana Wen
First Name	Leana
Last Name	Wen
Occupation	Physician
Birthday	January 27
Birth Year	1983
Place of Birth	Shanghai
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Birth Country	China
Birth Sign	Capricorn
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Parents	Xiaolu Wen, Ying Sandy Zhang
Siblings	Not Available
Spouse	Sebastian Neil Walker
Children(s)	Not Available

Leana Wen Biography

Leana Wen is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on January 27, 1983 in Shanghai, China. The mother of Wen’s, who passed away from breast cancer in the year 2010began her career in the hotel as a room cleaning along with a clerk at a store for video prior to becoming a teacher at elementary school. Her father was a newspaper delivery driver and worked as a dishwasher, later, he was the tech manager at The Chinese Daily News in Los Angeles.

In 2013, St. Martin’s Press published her book, When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests with coauthor Joshua Kosowsky. It is about how patients can take control of their health to advocate for better care for themselves.

In December 2014, Wen was appointed by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to serve as the health commissioner; in December 2016, she was reappointed by Mayor Catherine Pugh. In this role, she oversaw the Baltimore City Health Department, 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.

The year 2005 was the time Wen had a one year leave from medical school in order to be elected the president of the American Medical Student Association, which she led in her efforts for increased access to healthcare and reduce health disparities and to combat conflicts of interest between physicians and pharmaceutical companies that frequently employ attractive sales reps and free incentives to influence physicians, particularly young medical residents and interns. Wen began to be active within U.S. and international health policy while in medical school. She worked in Geneva, Switzerland as a fellow with the World Health Organization and in Rwanda as a fellow of The U.S. Department of Defense. Additionally, she was a consultant to U.S. Congress on physician staff and medical education, through her membership on the Council on Graduate Medical Education by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

In at the Early Entrance Program (EEP) at California State University, Los Angeles beginning at the age of 13years old. Wen completed her summa cum loupe at the age of 18 and earned an undergraduate degree in biochemistry in 2001. She was awarded the title of Doctor of Medicine from Washington University School of Medicine and holds two master’s degrees, the first in Economic and Social History and one that focuses on Modern Chinese Studies, both from Merton College in Oxford located in England in which she served as an Oxford Rhodes Scholar. The couple also got acquainted with their partner, Sebastian Walker, during her stay in England.

Following medical school, Wen completed a residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General) and a clinical fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston. She is board certified in emergency medicine. She married South Africa native Sebastian Neil Walker in February 2012 and started working in emergency medicine at BWH and Mass General before moving to the ER at the George Washington University (GW) in Washington, DC, where she became a professor in emergency and health policy, and the Director of Patient-Centered Care Research. She served as a consultant to the Brookings Institution and the China Medical Board, and conducted international health systems research including in South Africa, Slovenia, Nigeria, Singapore, and China.

Leana Wen Net Worth

Leana is one of the richest Physician from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Leana Wen's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Leana Sheryle Wen (Chinese: Wen Lin Yan ; born 27 January 1983) is an American doctor and writer. She was the President of Planned Parenthood, a former Health Commissioner for the City of Baltimore, and author of the book Doctors don’t listen and How to avoid misdiagnoses as well as unnecessary tests. She is currently a visiting professor in the department of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University, where she is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity.

Net Worth	$5 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Physician
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House	Living in own house.

She directed the city’s public health recovery efforts after the 2015 Baltimore riots, including ensuring prescription medication access to seniors after the closure of 13 pharmacies, and developing the Mental Health/Trauma Recovery Plan, with 24-hour crisis counseling, and healing circles and group counseling in schools, community groups, and churches.

Wen has led implementation of the Baltimore opioid overdose prevention and response plan, which includes a blanket prescription for the opioid antidote, naloxone; “hotspotting” and street outreach teams to target individuals most at risk; training family/friends on naloxone use; and launching a new public education campaign. Wen testified to the U.S. Senate HELP Committee and U.S. House Oversight Committee on Baltimore’s overdose prevention efforts. She led a group of state and city health officials to petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on adding black box warnings to opioids and benzodiazepines. In March 2016, she was invited by the White House to join President Barack Obama and CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta on a panel discussion, where she spoke about Baltimore’s response. She convened doctors and public health leaders to sign the Baltimore Statement on the Importance of Childhood Vaccinations and to successfully advocate to ban the sale of powdered alcohol in Maryland and synthetic drugs in Baltimore.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Following the 2015 Baltimore riots, the Baltimore City Health Department team launched numerous campaigns, including a citywide trauma response plan, youth health and wellness strategy, violence prevention programs, B’Healthy in B’More blog, and B’More Health Talks, a biweekly town hall and podcast series on health disparities.

Who is Leana Wen Dating?

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In May 2016, she served as the commencement speaker for the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Notre Dame of Maryland University, where she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. She has also served as commencement speaker at Washington University School of Medicine and at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2017, Wen was named as one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders and in 2018 as one of its Top 25 Minority Physician Executives.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Wen previously practiced as an emergency physician at the George Washington University, where she also 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. From December 2014 until October 2018, Wen served as the health commissioner for Baltimore City under two mayors.

In 2018, the National Association of County and City Health Officials awarded the Baltimore City Health Department the Local Health Department of the Year.

Top Facts about Leana Wen

1. Leana Sheryle Wen is an American physician, author, professor, speaker, consultant, newspaper columnist and television commentator.
2. Wen moved with her parents to the U.S. when she was eight, by then having the English name Leana Sheryle Wen and was granted political asylum.
3. She has two master’s degrees, one in Economic and Social History and another in Modern Chinese Studies, both from the Merton College, Oxford in England where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
4. In 2005, Wen took a one-year leave of absence from medical school to serve as the national president of the American Medical Student Association.
5. In March 2018, on behalf of Wen and the Baltimore City Health Department, the City of Baltimore sued the Trump administration for cutting teen pregnancy prevention funds.
6. In 2018, the National Association of County and City Health Officials awarded the Baltimore City Health Department the Local Health Department of the Year.
7. On September 18, 2018, Wen was appointed president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
8. In July 2019, Wen was forced to resign from her position after only 8 months due to philosophical differences in direction.
9. In August 2019, it was announced that Wen would join the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University as a visiting professor of health policy and management.
10. She started writing for The Washington Post as a contributing op-ed writer in 2019 and has appeared frequently on CNN during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2022 monkeypox outbreak as an on-air medical analyst.
11. Wen has two children, a son born in 2017 and a daughter born in 2020.
12. She has testified twice to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
13. In 2013, St. Martin’s Press published her book, When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests with coauthor Joshua Kosowsky.
14. A Texas man pleaded guilty to threatening her due to her advocacy for COVID-19 vaccines and was sentenced in federal court to six months in prison.
15. She is board certified in emergency medicine.

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Leana Ranked on the list of most popular Physician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Leana Wen celebrates birthday on January 27 of every year.

In March 2018, on behalf of Wen and the Baltimore City Health Department, the City of Baltimore sued the Trump administration for cutting teen pregnancy prevention funds, which resulted in a federal judge ordering the Trump administration to restore $5 million in grant funding to two Baltimore-based teen pregnancy prevention programs. She wrote an opinion editorial criticizing proposed changes to the Title X program which would affect health clinics in Baltimore providing reproductive health care for low income women. This court decision was later reversed by the 9th Circuit court, enabling the Trump administration to withhold Title X funding for abortion.

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