Denise Wilkes, MD, PhD

Denise Wilkes, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and practices in the UTMB Anesthesiology Pain Clinic and UTMB Cancer Center. Her training began at UTMB in 1994 with the combined MD-PhD program, followed by training in the anesthesiology residency and a pain fellowship. She joined the UTMB Pain Medicine practice in 2007. She treats acute and chronic pain conditions with emphasis on cancer and facial pain. Her practice provides medical management and interventional procedures such as steroid injection, neurolytic blocks, spinal cord stimulator, vertebroplasty, and kyphoplasty. She also works with other scientist in the Department of Neurosciences translating basic science discoveries into potential clinical treatments. Her research focus is to study novel therapeutic approaches for neuropathic pain such as the introduction of foreign genes into sensory neurons. Her research is currently funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.