Dr. Megan Brenkel

Dr. Megan Brenkel
Dr. Megan Brenkel


Room
EM206 - 1053 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1Y4E9


Biography

Medical school

  • University of Ottawa (2022)

Residency

  • Emergency Medicine (RCPSC), University of Ottawa

Personal interests

  • Basketball (Go Raptors and Las Vegas Aces!)
  • Fitness
  • Music
  • Food lover (especially dessert)
  • Travel

Publications

  • Brenkel M, Coutin A, Syed S, Sampsel K. (2021). Just the Facts: Diagnosis and management of intimate partner violence in the emergency department. Canadian journal of emergency medicine, 1-4.
  • Khan MM, Lanctôt KL, Fremes SE, Wijeysundera HC, Radhakrishnan S, Gallagher D, Gandell D, Brenkel MC, Hazan EL, Docteur NG, Herrmann N. (2019). The value of screening for cognition, depression, and frailty in patients referred for TAVI. Clinical interventions in aging, 14, 841-848.
  • Brenkel M, Whaley K, Herrmann N, Crawford K, Hazan E, Cardiff L, Owen AM, Shulman K. (2018). A case for the standardized assessment of testamentary capacity. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 21(1), 26-31.
  • Hazan E, Frankenburg F, Brenkel M, Shulman K. (2018). The test of time: a history of clock drawing. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 33(1), e22-e30.
  • Brenkel M, Shulman K, Hazan E, Herrmann N, Owen AM. (2017). Assessing capacity in the elderly: Comparing the MoCA with a novel computerized battery of executive function. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra, 7(2), 249-256.
  • Whaley K, Brenkel M, Shulman K, Crawford K. (2017). Standardizing the Assessment of Testamentary Capacity. Advocate’s Quarterly, 46(4), 441-450.
  • Hazan E, Zhang J, Brenkel M, Shulman K, Feinstein A. (2017). Getting clocked: screening for TBI-related cognitive impairment with the clock drawing test. Brain injury, 31(11), 1501-1506.

Abstracts

  • Dourthe B, Brenkel M, Wasserstein D, Zabjek K, Beach S, Saumur T, Hirsch S, Whyne C, Hardisty M. Using computer vision sensing technologies for anterior cruciate ligament injury screening. Abstract presented at Imaging Network Ontario Symposium 2020 Proceedings.
  • Daly N, Brenkel M, Steinburg R, Boyle M, Robinson L. Implementation of a psychiatry consult liaison service at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital: An observational study. Abstract presented at Canadian Association of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Conference 2020.

Awards

  • 2019: Research Project Award of Excellence in Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute Summer Poster Competition. Poster: “Comparing Motion Capture Technologies for ACL Injury Screening”.

Research interests

  • Medical Education
  • Sport Medicine
  • Resuscitation
  • Physician Wellness