Denise Wunderler, DO, FAOASM

Denise Wunderler, DO, FAOASM, is a sports medicine physician, USA Volleyball/FIVB team physician, international speaker, and published author who graduated from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. She completed her family medicine residency and sports medicine fellowship within the Cleveland Clinic Health System in Cleveland, Ohio.  She currently works in the medical clinic at the Harley-Davidson Motor Company in York, Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Wunderler is the founder/president of her family’s 501c3 nonprofit Team Vienna 4 SUDC (Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood) Awareness Inc (in honor of her daughter) and founded the Annual Vienna’s Day of International SUDC Awareness, where all 7 continents join to educate the world about SUDC.

Dr. Wunderler has been a Team Physician with USA Volleyball and FIVB since 2009 and travels internationally to support Team USA.

Dr. Wunderler earned the award of Fellow of the American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine in 2014. In 2020, a national publication honored her as one of the top 10 inspiring women in osteopathic medicine. She was also a nominee for the International ATHENA Award for leadership in 2020.

Dr. Wunderler is a mom of three, including her youngest, Vienna, who died at 2.8 years of age in 2017 without explanation. She is currently working on a special documentary film, The Silent Struggle: Vienna’s Legacy and Unraveling the Mystery of SUDC, which will be entered into film festivals this year. Dr. Wunderler coaches her kids' basketball and track teams.   

Dr. Wunderler discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients relative to the content of this presentation.