April Edwell, MD, MEd

Assistant Professor

Pediatrics

I care for all variety of critically ill children, teenagers, and young adults in the ICU. My particular areas of interest are thinking about how to make our system more equitable and just for patients, and how we train the next generation of physicians to be anti-oppressive in their thinking and practice.

My philosophy of care is one part Derrick Shephard’s “It’s a beautiful day to save lives” one part Captain Hook’s “Indefatigable good form” and one part Mary J. Blige’s “Don’t need no hateration, holleration in this dancery.”

Publications

Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Presenting With Severe Pulmonary Vascular Disease: ECMO Stabilization During Aggressive Therapy Resulting in a Favorable Outcome.

Pulmonary circulation

Tsoi SM, Cheung S, Valdovinos RA, Amin E, Nawaytou H, Colglazier E, Parker C, Edwell A, Kim S, Fineman JR

Publications

Juvenile Systemic Sclerosis Presenting With Severe Pulmonary Vascular Disease: ECMO Stabilization During Aggressive Therapy Resulting in a Favorable Outcome.

Inequities in the Application of Behavioral Flags for Hospitalized Pediatric Patients.

"And Still We Rise: Advances in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Antiracism in Academic Pediatrics".

From othering to belonging: a framework for DEI history-telling and strategising.

Recognition and Impact of Policing Families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

How Might we Build an Equitable Future? Design Justice, a Counternarrative to Dominant Approaches in Medical Education.

Acknowledging and Addressing Microaggressions: A Virtual Experiential Learning Approach for Faculty.

Dear Black Folx in Academic Pediatrics.

Integrating Discussions on Racism and Health Equity into Clinical Reasoning Conference.

URM: Underrepresented or Underrecognized? A Case Study of Black Pediatric Critical Care Physicians.

URM: Underrepresented or Underrecognized? A Case Study of Black Pediatric Critical Care Physicians.

Myocarditis in children after COVID-19 vaccine.

Beyond satisfaction: evaluating understanding in PICU family centered rounds.

Ten-Year-Old Girl With Abdominal Pain, Irregular Breathing, and Tachycardia.

A 19-year-old man with sickle cell disease presenting with spinal infarction: a case report.