Dr. Leana Wen is a rising star in the national Public Health arena – and just appeared with President Obama at the national Addiction Summit in Atlanta before joining us on Conversations on Health Care. If you’re interested in innovative approaches to the opioid crisis, please listen to this week’s interview!!  This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Leana Wen, Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore. Dr. Wen, an emergency room physician and author of When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests, discusses her innovative approaches to tackling Baltimore’s most pressing public health issues such as poverty, violent crime and the opioid crisis.

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