Sally Wenzel

Asthma and Allergic Disease Programs, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, United States of America

Sally Wenzel is Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she is also Director of the Asthma, Allergy, and Airway Research Center.

Her current research focuses on evaluating severe asthmatics and comparing the findings to those of patients with mild-to-moderate cases. She is also an investigator in the multicenter Severe Asthma Research Program funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Professor Wenzel’s other current studies investigate the interactions between allergic and infectious reactions in the airway and how they may exacerbate asthma-related inflammation; and the role of genetic factors in the interactions of allergic and fibrotic stimuli in airway cells.

She is a contributing editor to the Annals of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, a Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and on the Editorial Board of Clinical and Experimental Allergy. Professor Wenzel is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Thoracic Society, the Western Society for Clinical Investigation and the European Respiratory Society.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Respiratory Disorders > Asthma & Allergic Rhinitis (since 16 November 2005)

Sally Wenzel is a Section Head for Asthma & Allergic Rhinitis, part of the RESPIRATORY DISORDERS Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.