April Edwell, MD

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.”
Education
MAEd, 07/2021 - Graduate Medical Education and Racism, University of California, Berkeley
Fellowship, 07/2021 - Pediatric Critical Care, University of California, San Francisco
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Residency, 07/2017 - Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
MD, 05/2012 - , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Honors and Awards
  • Research in Medical Education - DEI Award, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), 2024
  • UCSF Exceptional Physician Award, 2020

  1. 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. How Might we Build an Equitable Future? Design Justice, a Counternarrative to Dominant Approaches in Medical Education. Teaching and learning in medicine 2024. PMID: 39282912


  2. Essakow J, Edwell A, Smith E, Daya S. Acknowledging and Addressing Microaggressions: A Virtual Experiential Learning Approach for Faculty. MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2024. PMID: 39233770


  3. Edwell A, Edwell J. From othering to belonging: a framework for DEI history-telling and strategising. Medical humanities 2024. PMID: 39122261


  4. Edwell AA. Dear Black Folx in Academic Pediatrics. Academic pediatrics 2023. PMID: 37591341


  5. Argueza BR, Young ES, Deering L, Franco M, Nightingale J, Irving P, Edwell A, McBride D, Marbin J. Integrating Discussions on Racism and Health Equity into Clinical Reasoning Conference. Academic pediatrics 2023. PMID: 37567442


  6. 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 2023. PMID: 37983396


  7. 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 2023. PMID: 37523368


  8. Aljohani OA, Arcilla L, Kaushik N, Cresalia NM, Li B, Edwell AA, Ramirez AM, Anwar S. Myocarditis in children after COVID-19 vaccine. Annals of pediatric cardiology 2022. PMID: 36589642


  9. Edwell A, Schaik SV, Desai M. Beyond satisfaction: evaluating understanding in PICU family centered rounds. Journal of Communication In Healthcare 2021. PMID: 36911895


  10. Edwards A, Permar S, Buck S, Jhaveri R. Ten-Year-Old Girl With Abdominal Pain, Irregular Breathing, and Tachycardia. 2016. PMID: 28220709


  11. Edwards A, Clay EL, Jewells V, Adams S, Crawford RD, Redding-Lallinger R. A 19-year-old man with sickle cell disease presenting with spinal infarction: a case report. 2013. PMID: 23972124