Leana S. Wen, M.D., M.Sc. has served as our director since August 2022. Dr. Wen is an emergency physician and has served as a faculty member at the George Washington University since September 2019. She has been a contributing columnist for The Washington Post since June 2020, writing on health policy and public health, and a health and medical expert for CNN since August 2020. From January 2015 to October 2018, she was 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. From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Wen served as director of patient-centered care research in the department of emergency medicine at George Washington University, and authored a critically-acclaimed book on patient advocacy. She is currently on the board of the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Baltimore Community Foundation, and chairs the advisory board of the Behavioral Health Group. She has also been a global health fellow at the World Health Organization, a consultant with the China Medical Board, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Wen also served as the President of Planned Parenthood from 2018 through 2019. She has been a member of more than ten nonprofit boards, including serving as the chair of Behavioral Health System Baltimore. Dr. Wen has also served on the board of directors of Glaukos Corporation since March 2021 and also serves on its audit committee. Dr. Wen s work has been recognized by numerous professional organizations, including as one of Modern Healthcare s Top 50 Physician-Executives and a member of the Council on Foreign Relationships. In 2019, she was named one of TIME magazine s 100 Most Influential People and in 2022 as one of Modern Healthcare s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. She holds a B.S. from California State University, Los Angeles, an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine and two M.Sc.s from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She completed her residency training at Brigham & Women s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. Our Board believes Dr. Wen s experience as a practicing physician, combined with her extensive experience working in governmental sectors, with innovative health companies, and serving on a public company board and audit committee and on nonprofit boards and foundations qualify her to serve on our Board.