April Edwell, MD

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: 

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

JAMA network open

Edwell A, Huang JX, Bongiovanni T, Pantell M

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

Academic pediatrics

Overall J, Gautam A, Franco M, Argueza BR, Edwell A, Karvonen KL

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

NeoReviews

Karvonen KL, Edwell A, McZeal A, Ondusko DS, Rogers E

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

Teaching and learning in medicine

Anderson HLK, Xu X, Edwell A, Lockwood L, Cabral P, Weiss A, Poeppelman RS, Kalata K, Shanker AI, Rosenfeld J, Borman-Shoap E, Pearce M, Karol C, Scheurer J, Hobday PM, O'Connor M, West DC, Balmer DF

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

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources

Essakow J, Edwell A, Smith E, Daya S

Dear Black Folx in Academic Pediatrics.

Academic pediatrics

Edwell AA

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

Academic pediatrics

Argueza BR, Young ES, Deering L, Franco M, Nightingale J, Irving P, Edwell A, McBride D, Marbin J

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

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Edwell A, Van Schaik S, Teherani A

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

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Edwell A, van Schaik S, Teherani A

Myocarditis in children after COVID-19 vaccine.

Annals of pediatric cardiology

Aljohani OA, Arcilla L, Kaushik N, Cresalia NM, Li B, Edwell AA, Ramirez AM, Anwar S

Beyond satisfaction: evaluating understanding in PICU family centered rounds.

Journal of communication in healthcare

Edwell A, Schaik SV, Desai M

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

Clinical pediatrics

Edwards A, Permar S, Buck S, Jhaveri R

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

Journal of medical case reports

Edwards A, Clay EL, Jewells V, Adams S, Crawford RD, Redding-Lallinger R