In 1966, she graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.
In 1983, she was chairman of the ad hoc Committee on Special Certification for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ASPEN).
She finished the fellowship working on guidelines development at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
Long a role model for women doctors, she was a founding member of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons.
[4] Venes’ research dealt with laboratory and clinical work on shunt infection, intracranial pressure and monitoring, Reyes’ syndrome, tethered cord, craniofacial anomalies, and Chiari malformations.
She wrote numerous articles and book chapters and gave many conference presentations on these topics.