Wednesday Evening Lenten Series: Dr. Leana Wen
Dr. Leana Wen runs America’s oldest, continuously operating public health department, is a practicing Emergency room doctor, and advocates passionately for patients and communities.
“Meet the 33-year-old genius solving Baltimore’s opioid crisis” writes Mother Jones about Wen, who issued a blanket prescription for the antidote naloxone to all 620,000 residents of the city, a signature program which has saved over 530 people since 2015. Under her direction, the Baltimore City Health Department leads the country in health innovations, including “B’More for Healthy Babies,” a strategy resulting in a 38% reduction in infant mortality, and “Safe Streets,” which treats gun violence as a contagious disease. With Dr. Josh Kosowsky, Wen is the author of When Doctors Don’t Listen.
Please register to join us for a simple supper from 6:00-7:00 p.m. on March 15. Dr. Wen’s talk will begin at 7:00 in the south transept of the church. (Registration is only necessary for supper.) Dr. Wen is the 2nd of 5 speakers in our series.
Transforming Narratives
From Baltimore stoops to the White House,
from outsider art to the art of dying well,
speakers transform their disciplines and their communities.
Simple supper @ 6:00 p.m. Register here for supper
Lecture @ 7:00 p.m. Dr. Leana Wen, Baltimore City Health Commissioner
Compline is offered in the chapel following each lecture
