Leigh Vinocur, MD FACEP

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Leigh Vinocur is a board certified emergency physician and national spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians. She currently serves on faculty as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and as the Director for Strategic Initiatives at University of Maryland School of Medicine. She has been a medical broadcaster for over 10 years, starting her broadcast career in 1998 as consultant and medical reporter for Baltimore’s NBC affiliate, WBAL TV and the NBC News Channel. A familiar voice on WBAL radio every Monday morning with Dave Durian, she also appears regularly on the national cable network the Fox News Channel and the popular syndicated The Dr. Oz Show. She has appeared on numerous other national media outlets as a medical expert, shows such as CNN’s House Calls and The Nancy Grace Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Inside Edition, the Fox Business Channel as well as ABC News and the CBS Early Show.

She co-hosted a mini-series on alternative medicine with Dr. Kevin Soden on Comcast’s Retirement Living Network. She wrote a monthly column for The Examiner newspaper and still contributes to the Savvy Auntie website. According to Dr. Vinocur, emergency medicine is really a microcosm of society as a whole. “As an ER doctor, I treat all the medical problems and social ills we see in modern life, problems related to obesity, smoking, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, mental illness and domestic violence. And while emergency medicine allows me to affect change one patient at a time, when I speak or write about these issues I get to affect a broader change throughout a whole community!” For more on Dr. Vinocur's work, visit www.drleigh.com.