Dr. Wengel is a geriatric psychiatrist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He attended medical school and did both his general and geriatric psychiatry fellowships at UNMC. Dr. Wengel is the first geriatric psychiatry fellow trained at UNMC, is board certified in general psychiatry and has added qualifications in geriatric psychiatry. Currently, his clinical duties include providing inpatient and outpatient geropsychiatric services, and consulting with the Nebraska Health System as well as four local nursing homes.

Dr. Wengel is very active in the teaching of medical students, psychiatry residents, pharmacy graduate students, and fellows in geriatric psychiatry and geriatric medicine. He serves as acting chairman and as the Director of Medical Student Education for psychiatry, overseeing the psychiatric and preclinical education of 125 junior medical students who pass through the department annually. He directs two separate courses for the residents in the department.

Dr. Wengel’s research interests include the use of electroconvulsive therapy for Parkinson’s disease and the use of cholinomimetic agents for treatment of delirium.

William J. Burke, M.D.
Christopher Kratochvil. M.D.
William H. Roccaforte, M.D.
Thomas Magnuson, M.D.
Dennis P. McNeilly, Psy.D.
Natalie Baker, M.D.