The new host of HLTH’s The Beat: Executive Speaker Series, Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician, healthcare executive, and op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes a twice-weekly column on medicine and public health and anchors the Post newsletter, ""The Checkup with Dr. Wen"". She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a clinical associate professor at George Washington University, and a frequent on-air commentator for CNN, NPR, PBS, and BBC. Previously, she served as Baltimore's Health Commissioner, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operatin...read more