Background
Adam S. Wenick, M.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor of ophthalmology in the retina division at the Wilmer Eye Institute. Dr. Wenick has subspecialty training in vitreoretinal diseases and surgery. His expertise includes medical and surgical treatment of age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular occlusions, epiretinal membranes, macular holes, trauma, and retinal tears and detachment.
Dr. Wenick received his M.D. and Ph.D. (in neurodevelopment) degrees from Columbia University. He completed an internship in internal medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center and his ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in vitreoretinal disease and surgery at Wilmer before joining the faculty in 2012.
Dr. Wenick’s research interests include the study of the molecular components of the vitreoretinal interface and their role in normal development as well as in the pathogenesis of vitreoretinal disease.