Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Bedner, DO is a third-year Pediatric Critical Care Fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her medical degree from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City University. She then completed her resident training in Pediatrics at University of Florida at Orlando Health, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, as well as a fourth year as Pediatric Chief Resident. Dr. Bedner’s interest during her clinical fellowship has been primarily centered around the comfort of patients in the pediatric critical care unit, through both her primary research project as well as other quality initiatives including creation of a nurse-led sedation protocol.
Dr. Bedner’s current abstract titled Pain Perceptions in Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Evaluation in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome, strives to characterize the perception of pain in patients with this progressive neurodevelopmental disorder. Through application of various painful stimuli, we were able to show that MeCP2 -/+ female mice exhibit abnormal pain behaviors. Specifically, they show initial hyperalgesia with eventual hypoalgesia, independent of motor function. This finding is critical for physicians to understand, particularly for development of stage-dependent therapeutic interventions and improving the care we provide to this population.