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UroGen Announces the Appointment of Dr. Leana S. Wen to the UroGen Pharma Board of Directors
PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UroGen Pharma Ltd. (Nasdaq: URGN), a biotech company dedicated to developing and commercializing novel solutions that
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[{"type":"text","content":" PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nUroGen Pharma Ltd. (Nasdaq: URGN), a biotech company dedicated to developing and commercializing novel solutions that treat urothelial and specialty cancers, today announced the appointment of Dr. Leana S. Wen to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.\n\nDr. Leana S. Wen, an emergency medicine physician and public health and policy expert, has agreed to join UroGen’s board, effective immediately. She has served as a professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University School of Public Health since September 2019.\n\n“We are fortunate to welcome Dr. Wen to UroGen’s Board of Directors,” said Liz Barrett, President and Chief Executive Officer, UroGen. “Dr. Wen’s work as a practicing physician and her extensive health policy and public health experience will be an asset to our Company. She brings a deep understanding of our diverse stakeholders and the complex dynamics of the biopharmaceutical industry. I am confident she will add great value to UroGen as we continue to look to transform the field of uro-oncology with therapeutic interventions because patients deserve better.”\n\nDr. Wen has served on the board of directors of Glaukos Corporation since March 2021 and is a member of its Audit Committee. She is currently on the board of the Bipartisan Policy Center, Baltimore Community Foundation, and National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and chairs the advisory board of the Behavioral Health Group. She has been a contributing columnist for The Washington Post since June 2020, writing on health policy and public health, and an on-air commentator for CNN as a medical analyst since August 2020.\n\n“UroGen is a company with tremendous potential that is bringing innovation to a field of medicine with significant unmet need,” says Leana S. Wen, M.D. “I am excited to join UroGen’s Board of Directors to help advance UroGen’s goal of improving care for patients with urological and other cancers.”\n\nFrom January 2015 to October 2018, Dr. Wen 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. She has also served as a global health fellow at the World Health Organization, a consultant with the China Medical Board, and a nonr...