Luis Venegas, DPM

Biography

Dr. Venegas, who serves as Medical Director for the Wound Healing Center at Harlingen Medical Center, previously practiced in podiatry and wound care in Miami, Florida, for four years.  He is board-certified by the American Board of Podiatry and is a Fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association.

Dr. Venegas completed a residency at a U.S. Veteran’s Administration hospital in New York, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Hospital, and a fellowship in foot care and surgery at New York Downtown Hospital and at foot clinics in New York. He graduated from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine in Cleveland.  Fluent in Spanish and English, he also attended Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico, where he met his wife, Jannette.

The son of Luis Ramon and Daisy Venegas of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Dr. Venegas was always interested in the biomechanics of the human body, including how it relates to athletics, and decided to pursue a career in medicine — despite coming from a family of engineers and business people.

However, two of his sons have decided to stick with engineering, with one working as an aerospace engineer in Florida after graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the other studying mechanical engineering at the University of Houston. 

A third son is a senior in high school and recently became an Eagle Scout. Dr. Venegas and his wife, Jannette — who has been his medical office administrator for more than 20 years — decided to come to the Valley in search of a family-friendly environment after living in “the big cities” (New York and Miami) for several years.