Sally E. Wenzel – MD
Sally E. Wenzel
MD
Dr. Wenzel is the Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, the Director of the University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute, and a member of the Cellular and Molecular Pathology Graduate Training Program. Dr. Wenzel is considered a global expert in severe asthma. She has pioneered the concept of asthma phenotypes, including the progression to molecular phenotyping. Dr. Wenzel and Dr. Samuel Yousem were the first to identify a new disease, termed asthmatic granulomatosis, which has features of asthma and autoimmune-like disease. Dr. Wenzel’s research interest derives from her clinical experience. She often follows a “bedside to bench” approach, regarding biomarkers and relation to asthma phenotypes and treatment.