Wendy Dean, MD is a psychiatrist, who also practiced as an emergency room physician, trained as a surgeon, worked for the U.S. Army, and been an executive at a large international non-profit. Her own personal experiences as a physician, a family member, and a patient, inform her unflinching advocacy for clinicians and patients alike. Dean is the CEO and co-founder, with Simon G. Talbot, MD, of The Moral Injury of Healthcare (fixmoralinjury.org), a nonprofit organization reframing how best to understand and address distress in the healthcare workforce. Together they also cohost the podcast, Moral Matters. Dean earned her BA from Smith College, her MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and did residency training at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, NH. She and her husband raised their sons and still live on a centuries-old smallholding farm in rural Pennsylvania with an ever-changing assortment of animals.
