Amy L. Drendel, DO, MS

Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Director, Children's Wisconsin Emergency Department Trauma Center

Locations

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

Education

DO; Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1997
Residency; Pediatrics Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center Center, 2002
MS; Medical College of Wisconsin
Fellowship; Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2005

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

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Emergency Department Pain Management of Children With Fractures.

(Goyal MK, Johnson TJ, Chamberlain JM, Cook L, Webb M, Drendel AL, Alessandrini E, Bajaj L, Lorch S, Grundmeier RW, Alpern ER, PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY CARE APPLIED RESEARCH NETWORK (PECARN).) Pediatrics. 2020 May;145(5) PMID: 32312910 PMCID: PMC7193974 04/22/2020
Does Mechanism of Injury Predict Trauma Center Need for Children?

(Lerner EB, Badawy M, Cushman JT, Drendel AL, Fumo N, Jones CMC, Shah MN, Gourlay DM.) Prehosp Emerg Care. 2020 Mar 24:1-8 PMID: 32119577 03/03/2020
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Canadian pediatric emergency physicians regarding short-term opioid use: a descriptive, cross-sectional survey.

(Fowler M, Ali S, Gouin S, Drendel AL, Poonai N, Yaskina M, Sivakumar M, Jun E, Dong K, for Pediatric Emergency Research Canada.) CMAJ Open. 2020 Jan-Mar;8(1):E148-E155 PMID: 32184278 PMCID: PMC7082107 03/19/2020
Opioid Prescription Patterns at Emergency Department Discharge for Children with Fractures.

(Drendel AL, Brousseau DC, Casper TC, Bajaj L, Alessandrini EA, Grundmeier RW, Chamberlain JM, Goyal MK, Olsen CS, Alpern ER.) Pain Med. 2020 Feb 05 PMID: 32022894 02/06/2020
Parents Reliably Identify Pain Dismissal by Pediatric Providers.

(Igler E, Lang A, Balistreri K, Sejkora E, Drendel A, Davies WH.) Clin J Pain. 2020 Feb;36(2):80-87 PMID: 31764165 11/26/2019
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. 2019 09;21(5):E9 PMID: 29956643 06/30/2018
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 07;26(7):803-813 PMID: 30267596 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85055708397 09/30/2018
Insights from pharmacists and pharmacy technicians about expedited partner therapy.

(Tan KT, Pickett ML, Borchardt LN, Visotcky AM, Drendel AL.) Sex Health. 2019 06;16(3):289-295 PMID: 31122335 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85066752711 05/28/2019
Disseminated Blastomycosis in a Teenager Presenting with Pleural Effusion and Splenomegaly.

(Teijido J, Drendel AL.) J Emerg Med. 2019 Mar;56(3):e23-e26 PMID: 30691698 01/30/2019
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 PMID: 30608908 PMCID: PMC6913171 01/05/2019
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 PMID: 30281884 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85055932438 10/04/2018
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 PMID: 30038534 PMCID: PMC6007414 07/25/2018

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