Education:

The American University, Ph.D. (History) 2000
The American University, M.A. (History) 1995
University of Michigan School of Medicine, M.D., 1966
University of Michigan, B.A. (Zoology) 1962

Dissertation:

“Military Medical Aid to Civilians: Altruism or Policy?”

Post-Graduate Training:

Plastic Surgical Residency, University of Michigan Hospitals, 1973-75
General Surgical Residency, University of Maryland Hospitals, Baltimore, MD, 1969-73
Internship, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, 1966-67

Military Service:

U.S. Army Medical Corps, July 1967-June 1969
Awards:
National Defense Medal
Vietnam Campaign Award
Vietnamese Defense Medal
Presidential Unit Citation
Army Commendation Medal
Bronze Star

Certifications, Fellowships and Awards:

Graduate Student Association Research Grant, The American University, June 1998
Washingtonian Magazine, 1991. Outstanding Plastic Surgeon, Washington Metropolitan Area
Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 1977
American Board of Plastic Surgery, 1976
American Board of Surgery, 1974

Appointments:

Professorial Lecturer, American University, Washington, DC, 2000-03
Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2001-05
Assistant Professor of Medical History, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 2004

Teaching Experience:

History 387/687 The United States and the Vietnam War, American University, Summer 2000

History 389 001 The United States and the Vietnam War, George Mason University, May-June 2001

History 150 001 The Cold War and Vietnam, Freshman Seminar, GMU Spring 2002

History 389 005 The United States and The Vietnam War, GMU Fall 2002, Fall 2004

History 389 006 The Cold War, GMU Fall 2002

Teaching Assistant and Lecturer: Health, Disease and Medicine in the United States, Department of History, AU (Prof. Alan Kraut) Spring 1997, Spring 1999

Greenberg Seminars: A three-year program of The American University designed to prepare doctoral students for university teaching careers.

Presentations:

Military Medical Services as an Instrument of Policy, Conference of Army Historians
Crystal City, VA, August 2002

The MEDCAP Program in Vietnam
Presented to Washington Society for the History of Medicine
Bethesda, MD 2000

Cosmetic Surgery in an Outpatient Setting
Presented 8th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Association Meeting
Washington, DC 1982

Treatment of Amputated Fingertips in Children
Present American Medical Association Annual Convention
St. Louis, MO, 1982

Aplasia Cutis Congenita
Presented Military Plastic Surgery Conference
Washington, DC 1977

Transaxillary Augmentation Mammaplasty
Chief Resident’s Conference
Palo Alto, CA 1975

Publications:

Robert J. Wilensky, Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War (Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2004).

Robert J. Wilensky, “The Medical Civic Action Program in Vietnam: Success or Failure?” Military Medicine 166 (September 2001): 315-19.

Robert J. Wilensky, Chapter 10: “Medicine and Health,” 429-466, in Tandy McConnell, ed., American Decades 1990-1999 (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, Manly, Inc., 2001).

Robert J. Wilensky, “Thoughts of a Plastic Surgeon,” Pediatrics Vol. 105 No. 6 (June 2000): 1330.

Robert J. Wilensky, “The Vietnam War was a Logical Consequence of American Post-War Policy,” in Robert Allison, ed., History in Dispute: U.S. Political and Social History, 1945-Present: The Pursuit of Progress (Detroit: Gale Research, 1999).

Robert J. Wilensky, “Amputated Fingertips Injuries in Children,” Clinical Proceedings, Children’s Hospital National Medical Center 34 (July-August 1978): 165-70.

Robert J. Wilensky and William C. Grabb, “Soft Tissue Coverage of the Lower Extremities,” Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society 74 (September 1976): 591-610.

Charles Vinocer, Robert J. Wilensky, Arnold G. Coran, Reed O. Dingman and William H. Weintraub, “Surgical Management of Aplasia Cutis Congenita,” Archives of Surgery 110 (October 1976): 1160.

J. Agris, Reed O. Dingman, and Robert J. Wilensky, “Dissector for Transaxillary Augmentation Mammaplasty,” Modern Medicine 44 (August 1976): 150-51.

Reed O. Dingman, Joseph Agris, and Robert J. Wilensky, “Transaxillary Augmentation Mammaplasty,” Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 57 (January 1976): 10-13.

Robert J. Wilensky and T. Brannon Hubbard, Jr., “Thrombosis of the Digital Vessels Secondary to Oral Contraceptives,” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 113 (August 1972): 1137.

Book Reviews:

Arthur L. Rosenbaum and Chae-Jin Lee (Editors), The Cold War-Reassessments (Claremont, CA: Keck Center for Strategic Studies, 2000). Reviewed for H-Diplo, June 2002.

Membership and Offices of Professional Organizations:

President, Washington Society for the History of Medicine, 2002-04
Vice-President, Washington Society for the History of Medicine, 2000-02
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Reed O. Dingman Society (University of Michigan Plastic Surgery)
Secretary-Treasurer 1984-88
President, National Capital Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1992
Chief, Section of Plastic Surgery, Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, DC 1983-94
Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, Columbia Hospital for Women, 1992-94
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
American Association for the History of Medicine
Phi Alpha Theta History Honorary Society