Ascension St. John’s first female Chief of Staff, Dr. Jill Wenger, married into a family with three generations of doctors.
Nine family members ranging in age from early 20s to early 90s are currently — or have been — in the medical profession, starting with Wenger’s 90-year-old father-in-law, Dr. Bruce Wenger.
“My father-in-law laid the groundwork for our family,” says (Jill) Wenger. “He was an anesthesiologist at St. John throughout the 70s and 80s.”
Wenger’s husband, Peter Wenger, is a retired family medicine doctor at St. John who practiced in the 90s through the early 2000s. Their daughter, Allison, is currently a third-year medical student at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City…