Andrea Wendling, MD, is director of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine's Rural Medicine Curriculum and Professor of Family Medicine. She graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and the Grand Rapids Family Medicine Residency Program and is currently a rural family doctor in Northern Michigan.
Dr. Wendling has received many teaching awards including the college's Arnold P. Gold Humanism Award and Outstanding Community Volunteer Faculty Award; as well as the Rural Professional of the Year Award from the Michigan Center for Rural Health. She is an Assistant Editor for two journals—Family Medicine and Peer-Reviewed Reports in Medical Education and Research (PRIMER) and is the course director for The Center for Medical Education’s National Family Medicine Board Review Course. In 2020 she was awarded the National Rural Health Association's Outstanding Rural Educator Award.
Dr. Wendling oversees the College of Human Medicine's Leadership in Rural Medicine Certificate Program, the Rural Community Health Program, and the Rural Premedical Internship Program.