About me

Dr. Wenke attended Baylor University for his undergraduate education and earned his PhD from the Texas A&M University, where he focused on skeletal muscle injury and disuse atrophy. He completed a National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) in San Antonio. In 2004, Dr. Wenke was hired by USAISR as a research physiologist and promoted to Manager of Extremity Trauma and Regenerative Medicine in 2008. Since then, he has led a group of scientists, clinicians, surgeons, research nurses, research technicians, and students to improve outcomes of battlefield wounds such as open fractures and burns.