Jenny S Mendelson
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Child Health
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - (Clinical Scholar Track)
Contact
- (520) 626-5485
- UA College of Med-Phoenix(Adm), Rm. 3301
- Tucson, AZ 85724
- jmendels@arizona.edu
Degrees
- M.D. Medicine
- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, United States
- B.A. Biology, History
- Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, United States
Work Experience
- Banner University of Arizona Medical Center Tucson (2015 - Ongoing)
- Banner University of Arizona Medical Center Tucson (2015 - Ongoing)
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (2012 - 2015)
Awards
- Off Service Attending Award
- University of Arizona Department of Emergency Medicine, Summer 2016
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Fellow of the Year
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pediatric Residency, Summer 2014
- Travel Grant for Young Investigators
- Pediatric Academic Societies/Pediatric Research Society, Spring 2014
Licensure & Certification
- Arizona Medical License, Arizona Medical Board (2011)
- Pennsylvania Medical License, Pennsylvania Department of State (2013)
- Diplomate - Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine (2013)
- Diplomate - General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (2013)
- Diplomate - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics (2016)
Interests
Research
pediatric cardiac arrest and post-resuscitation carepediatric traumatic brain injurytransport medicine
Teaching
medical simulation
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Pediatric Critical Care
PED 840C (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Pediatric Critical Care
PED 840C (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Advanced Pediatric Care
EMD 440 (Fall 2022) -
Pediatric Critical Care
PED 840C (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Advanced Pediatric Care
EMD 440 (Spring 2022) -
Advanced Pediatric Care
EMD 440 (Fall 2021) -
Pediatric Critical Care
PED 840C (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Pediatric Critical Care
PED 840C (Spring 2021) -
Advanced Pediatric Care
EMD 440 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Advanced Pediatric Care
EMD 440 (Fall 2019)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Mendelson, J. S. (2020). Avoiding Common Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.More infoAssociate Editor for 7 chapters, with topics including: congenital heart disease, myocarditis, sepsis, anaphylaxis, post-circumcision complications, failure to thrive, and neonatal feeding problems.
- Mendelson, J. S. (2017). Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.More infoAssociate Editor for 10 chapters, with topics including: pediatric airway management, child abuse, pediatric procedural sedation, interpretation of pediatric EKGs, approach to the cardiac transplant patient in the ED, idiopathic thrombocytopenia syndrome, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, peritonsillar abscess, the red eye, management of tympanic membrane rupture.
Chapters
- Larsen, S., & Mendelson, J. (2020). Don’t miss undiagnosed congenital heart disease: in babies with heart disease, color matters!. In Avoiding Common Errors in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
- Stout, J., & Mendelson, J. (2020). Viruses can be real heart breakers: Don’t let the myocarditis patient blend in with all the respiratory viral illnesses. In Avoiding Common Errors in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
- Milligan, R., & Mendelson, J. (2018). Pediatric Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies. In Scientific American Emergency Medicine. Hamilton, ON: Decker Intellectual Properties. doi:10.2310/7900.4412
- Mendelson, J. S., & Viscusi, C. D. (2017). Pediatric Resuscitation. In Emergency Department Resuscitation of the Critically Ill, 2nd Ed..
Journals/Publications
- Pacheco, G. S., Patanwala, A. E., Mendelson, J. S., & Sakles, J. C. (2021). Clinical Experience with the CMAC and Glidescope in a Pediatric Emergency Department Over a 10-Year Period. Pediatric Emergency Care, 37(12), e1098-e1103. doi:10.1097/PEC.0000000000001911.
- Sakles, J. C., Mendelson, J. S., Patanwala, A. E., & Pacheco, G. (2021). Clinical Experience With the C-MAC and GlideScope in a Pediatric Emergency Department Over a 10-Year Period. Pediatric Emergency Care, Dec 1;37(12):e1098-e1103.
- Strah, D., Mendelson, J., Acharya, D., & Seckeler, M. (2021). Coronary artery spasm in a 15-year-old male in diabetic ketoacidosis. Cardiology in the Young.
- Mendelson, J. (2018). Emergency Department Management of Pediatric Shock. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America.More infoSelected for inclusion in the American Board of Emergency Medicine 2020 Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Reading List. Per the ABEM notification: "The LLSA editors review scores of distinguished papers before a team of clinically active emergency physicians makes the final selection. LLSA articles are highly relevant to the specialty and represent the most important information that emergency physicians need to keep up with advances in medicine."
- Pacheco, G. S., Gaspers, M., & Mendelson, J. (2018). Pediatric Ventilator Management in the Emergency Department. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America.
- Mendelson, J., & Berg, M. D. (2016). Getting the right bystander to the right place at the right time.. Resuscitation, 107, A11-2.
- Typpo, K. V., & Mendelson, J. S. (2016). After the Fairytale Ending: Functional Impairment After Pediatric Critical Illness. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 15(5), 473-4.
- Newmyer, R. E., Mendelson, J. S., Pang, D., & Fink, E. L. (2015). Targeted temperature management in pediatric central nervous system disease. Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics, 1(1), 38-47.
- Kremer, C. L., Klein, R. R., Mendelson, J. S., Browne, W., Samadzedeh, L. K., Vanpatten, K., Highstrom, L., Pestano, G. A., & Nagle, R. B. (2006). Expression of mTOR signaling pathway markers in prostate cancer progression. The Prostate, 66, 1203-1212.
Poster Presentations
- Fisher, R., Pacheco, G. S., Mendelson, J., & Sakles, J. C. (2019, October). Pediatric cardiac arrest is associated with increased number of emergency department intubation attempts. American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly. Denver, CO.
- Sakles, J. C., Fisher, R., Mendelson, J., & Pacheco, G. (2019, October). Pediatric Cardiac Arrest is Associated With Increased Number of Intubation Attempts in the Emergency Department. American College of Emergency Medicine Research Forum. Denver, CO: American College of Emergency Medicine.
- Mendelson, J., Bayir, H., Kochanek, P., & Ericka, F. (2015, January). 255: Serum cytochrome c is associated with outcome and cardiac dysfunction after pediatric cardiac arrest. 44th Critical Care Congress. Phoenix, AZ: Society of Critical Care Medicine.
- Mendelson, J., Grover, E., & Berg, M. D. (2011, Fall). Analysis of Actual CPR Through a Review of YouTube Video: Poor Performance Is Common in Professional and Lay Rescuers. Resuscitation Science Symposium. Orlando, FL: American Heart Assocition.
- Zukowski, M., Mendelson, J., Pantawala, A., Bentley, R., & Woolridge, D. (2011, May). Pediatric Prescribing Errors: The Effect of an Educational Based Intervention on Prescription Errors Among Emergency Medicine Residents: 42. Society of Academic Emergency Medicine 2011 Annual MeetingSociety of Academic Emergency Medicine.
- Mendelson, J., Arciniegas-Rodriguez, S., Green, K., & Berg, M. D. (2010, Fall). Lay Public Poorly Identifies Chest Compression Depth in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Recommendations. Resuscitation Science Symposium 2010. Chicago, IL: American Heart Association.
Case Studies
- Tegethoff, A. M., Raney, E., Mendelson, J., & Minckler, M. R. (2017. Paediatric chest wall trauma causing delayed presentation of ventricular arrhythmia(p. 6).
Others
- Mendelson, J., Drummond, B., Ng, V., & Leetch, A. (2020, December 2020). "The Approach to Bronchiolitis". AZEMCast podcast.More infoContributor to a monthly emergency medicine podcast. Each podcast features an emergency medicine case-based discussion in a competitive, moderated panel format. The podcast has over 66,000 downloads and nearly 1000 monthly subscribers. AZEMCast won the University of Arizona College of Medicine Vernon and Virginia Furrow Excellence in Innovation and Medical Education Award in 2017. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/arizona-emcast/id685439303?mt=2