Amy L. Drendel, DO, MS

Professor and Medical Director

Locations

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Campus
8915 W. Connell Ct.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Biography

Education

1997, Chicago College of Osteopathic Med (Chicago, IL), DO

Residency

2001, Rush Presbyterian St Luke's Med Ctr (Chicago, IL) - Pediatrics

Fellowship

2005, Medical College of Wisconsin - Ped Emerg Med

Honors and Awards

2004, 2005 Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award –MCW
2009 Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award: Emergency Medicine -MCW
2012 Outstanding Medical Student Teachers –MCW
2013 Milwaukee’s Top Doctors
Best Doctors in America

Research Interests

Dr. Drendel is a physician scientist committed to patient-oriented translational research. As a pediatric emergency medicine physician, her main research interest is the optimization of pain treatment for children. She was the principal investigator for one of the largest published pediatric clinical trial of at-home analgesic effectiveness for children with fractures and she has an in-depth understanding of the at-home pain experience. Dr. Drendel is currently the principal investigator for a prospective multi-center longitudinal comparative effectiveness study that aims to determine the most effective analgesic regimen for children with fracture pain and is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Drendel has been a co-investigator on 5 previous grants evaluating pediatric pain treatment effectiveness and has developed collaborative networks that position the team to perform large-scale innovative research. Prior research evaluated the variability in the treatment of pediatric pain; current goals include developing a comprehensive understanding of the pain experience for children from the Emergency Department to the at-home setting.

Primary research focus:

·Outpatient pediatric pain experience

·Treatment of pediatric acute pain in the Emergency Department

·Pain assessment

·Procedural pain

Minding the Gap: A Qualitative Study of Provider Experience to Optimize Care for Critically Ill Children in General Emergency Departments.

(Query LA, Olson KR, Meyer MT, Drendel AL.) Acad Emerg Med. 2019 Jul;26(7):803-813.
Insights from pharmacists and pharmacy technicians about expedited partner therapy.

(Tan KT, Pickett ML, Borchardt LN, Visotcky AM, Drendel AL.) Sex Health. 2019 May 24.
Disseminated Blastomycosis in a Teenager Presenting with Pleural Effusion and Splenomegaly.

(Teijido J, Drendel AL.) J Emerg Med. 2019 Mar;56(3):e23-e26.
Pain management practices surrounding lumbar punctures in children: A survey of Canadian emergency physicians.

(Poonai N, Brzozowski V, Stang AS, Drendel AL, Boisclair P, Miller M, Harman S, Ali S, Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC).) CJEM. 2019 Mar;21(2):199-203.
A Systematic Review of Hospital Trauma Team Activation Criteria for Children.

(Drendel AL, Gray MP, Lerner EB.) Pediatr Emerg Care. 2019 Jan;35(1):8-15.
Consensus-based Criterion Standard for the Identification of Pediatric Patients Who Need Emergency Medical Services Transport to a Hospital with Higher-level Pediatric Resources.

(Studnek JR, Lerner EB, Shah MI, Browne LR, Brousseau DC, Cushman JT, Dayan PS, Drayna PC, Drendel AL, Gray MP, Kahn CA, Meyer MT, Shah MN, Stanley RM.) Acad Emerg Med. 2018 12;25(12):1409-1414.
Comparison of the psychometric properties of 3 pain scales used in the pediatric emergency department: Visual Analogue Scale, Faces Pain Scale-Revised, and Colour Analogue Scale.

(Le May S, Ballard A, Khadra C, Gouin S, Plint AC, Villeneuve E, Mâsse B, Tsze DS, Neto G, Drendel AL, Auclair MC, McGrath PJ, Ali S.) Pain. 2018 Aug;159(8):1508-1517.
A qualitative study of the language of satisfaction in children with pain.

(McGrath T, Ali S, Dow N, Aziz S, Pilarski M, Drendel AL.) Paediatr Child Health. 2018 Jul;23(4):e62-e69.
Pain management practices surrounding lumbar punctures in children: A survey of Canadian emergency physicians - CORRIGENDUM.

(Poonai N, Brzozowski V, Stang AS, Drendel AL, Boisclair P, Miller M, Harman S, Ali S, Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC).) CJEM. 2018 Jun 29:1.
Expedited Partner Therapy: Pharmacist Refusal of Legal Prescriptions.

(Borchardt LN, Pickett ML, Tan KT, Visotcky AM, Drendel AL.) Sex Transm Dis. 2018 05;45(5):350-353.
Parents' pain medication underdosing is associated with more emergency department visits in sickle cell disease.

(Morrison AK, Myrvik MP, Brousseau DC, Drendel AL, Scott JP, Visotcky A, Panepinto JA.) Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 04;65(4).
A qualitative study of the at-home pain experience for children with an arm fracture.

(Hanson A, Drendel AL.) Paediatr Child Health. 2017 Jul;22(4):207-210.

Amy Drendel DO