Pennsylvania Physician General Rachel Levine
Listen 00:48:44Guests: Rachel Levine
Guest host Mary Cummings-Jordan talks with Pennsylvania’s new Physician General, RACHEL LEVINE. She spent several years at Penn State College of Medicine as a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry and where she founded the Penn State Hershey Eating Disorders Program. She is the first ever openly-transgender person to serve in a governor’s cabinet in Pennsylvania. We’ll find out about her life and what her main priorities will be as the state’s top doctor.
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