Andrea Postier, PhD
Professional Researcher
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Her primary areas of interest are: 1) the parent-caregiver experience as it relates to caring for a child with palliative care needs; 2) pain and symptom assessment, documentation, and management; and 3) pediatric palliative care service delivery across care settings and points along the illness trajectory; and 4) quality improvement in the pediatric inpatient setting. Dr. Postier works in the UCSF Department of Pediatrics, Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative, and Integrative Medicine at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals (San Francisco and Oakland). In addition to research and quality improvement activities, she is actively involved with various national and international organizations and projects, including the global Education in Palliative and End of Life Care – Pediatrics (EPEC-Pediatrics) program since its inception in 2010.

• A descriptive analysis of pediatric post-tonsillectomy pain and recovery outcomes over a 10-day recovery period from 2 randomized, controlled trials.
  Pain reports 2020 Postier AC, Chambers C, Watson D, Schulz C, Friedrichsdorf SJ
• Recent advances in pain treatment for children with serious illness.
  Pain management 2019 Friedrichsdorf SJ, Postier AC
• Pain Management In Pediatric Patients With Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: Current Insights.
  Journal of pain research 2019 Junghans-Rutelonis AN, Postier A, Warmuth A, Schwantes S, Weiss KE
• Development of a Pediatric Palliative Care Curriculum and Dissemination Model: Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (EPEC) Pediatrics.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2019 Friedrichsdorf SJ, Remke S, Hauser J, Foster L, Postier A, Kolste A, Wolfe J
• A hospital-wide initiative to eliminate or reduce needle pain in children using lean methodology.
  Pain reports 2018 Friedrichsdorf SJ, Eull D, Weidner C, Postier A
• Pain Experience in a US Children's Hospital: A Point Prevalence Survey Undertaken After the Implementation of a System-Wide Protocol to Eliminate or Decrease Pain Caused by Needles.
  Hospital pediatrics 2018 Postier AC, Eull D, Schulz C, Fitzgerald M, Symalla B, Watson D, Goertzen L, Friedrichsdorf SJ
• Interdisciplinary Pediatric Palliative Care Team Involvement in Compassionate Extubation at Home: From Shared Decision-Making to Bereavement.
  Children (Basel, Switzerland) 2018 Postier A, Catrine K, Remke S
• Caring for a Child with a Complex Chronic Condition: Parent‐Reported Burden and Quality of Life
  J of Pain and Symptom Management 2018 Postier A, Kolste A, Schulz C, Watson D, Braaten N, Catrine K, Friedrichsdorf S
• Pain reporting and analgesia management in 270 children with a progressive neurologic, metabolic or chromosomally based condition with impairment of the central nervous system: cross-sectional, baseline results from an observational, longitudinal study.
  Journal of pain research 2017 Friedrichsdorf SJ, Postier AC, Andrews GS, Hamre KE, Steele R, Siden H
• A Comparison of Circumstances at the End of Life in a Hospital Setting for Children With Palliative Care Involvement Versus Those Without.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2016 Osenga K, Postier A, Dreyfus J, Foster L, Teeple W, Friedrichsdorf SJ
• Methadone conversion in infants and children: Retrospective cohort study of 199 pediatric inpatients.
  Journal of opioid management 2016 Fife A, Postier A, Flood A, Friedrichsdorf SJ
• Children’s Comfort Promise®; successfully implementing an evidence based pain protocol for needle procedures throughout a large children's hospital and clinic system
  J Pain 2016 Eull D, Weidener C, Postier A, Friedrichsdorf S. Children’s Comfort Promise®; successfully implementing an evidence based pain protocol for needle procedures throughout a large children's hospital and…
• Tramadol versus codeine/acetaminophen after pediatric tonsillectomy: A prospective, double-blinded, randomized controlled trial.
  Journal of opioid management 2015 Friedrichsdorf SJ, Postier AC, Foster LP, Lander TA, Tibesar RJ, Lu Y, Sidman JD
• Pain Outcomes in a US Children's Hospital: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Survey.
  Hospital pediatrics 2015 Friedrichsdorf SJ, Postier A, Eull D, Weidner C, Foster L, Gilbert M, Campbell F
• Improved quality of life at end of life related to home-based palliative care in children with cancer.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2014 Friedrichsdorf SJ, Postier A, Dreyfus J, Osenga K, Sencer S, Wolfe J
• Long-term psychosocial outcomes among bereaved siblings of children with cancer.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2014 Rosenberg AR, Postier A, Osenga K, Kreicbergs U, Neville B, Dussel V, Wolfe J
• Management of breakthrough pain in children with cancer.
  Journal of pain research 2014 Friedrichsdorf SJ, Postier A
• Codeine-associated pediatrics deaths despite using recommended dosing guidelines: three case reports
  J Opioid Manag 2014 Friedrichsdorf, SJ, Postier Nugent, A
• Stress in Parents of Medically Fragile Infants Who Met Palliative Care Referral Criteria and Were Referred to Home Health Services
  J of Palliative Care 2014 Postier A, Foster L, Osenga K, Grinyer A, Friedrichsdorf S
• Exposure to home-based pediatric palliative and hospice care and its impact on hospital and emergency care charges at a single institution.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2013 Postier A, Chrastek J, Nugent S, Osenga K, Friedrichsdorf SJ
• Management of neuropathic pain in children with cancer
  Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care 2013 Friedrichsdorf, SJ, Postier Nugent, A
• Parent proxy ratings of pain before and after botulinum toxin Type A treatment for children with spasticity and cerebral palsy
  Clinical Journal of Pain 2009 Rivard PF, Postier Nugent AC, Symons FJ
• Experience with complex dosing schedules for continuous intrathecal baclofen infusion
  Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2007 Krach LE, Kreil RL & Nugent AC
• Parent evaluation of spasticity treatment in cerebral palsy using botulinum toxin type A
  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2006 Symons F, Rivard P, Nugent A & Tervo R , 87(12): 1658-60.
• Innovative approaches to measuring outcomes and providing feedback: the Opioid Agonist Therapy Effectiveness (OpiATE) Initiative
  Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions 2005 Willenbring ML, Postier AC, Kenny M, Hagedorn H
• Variations in evidence-based clinical practices in nine United States Veterans Administration opioid agonist therapy clinics.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2004 Willenbring ML, Hagedorn HJ, Postier AC, Kenny M
• An evaluation of neuroscience nursing research published during the Decade of the Brain.
  The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses 2004 DiIorio C, Yeager KA, Donahue BH, Wasserman J, Postier A, Broderick L
• Beliefs about evidence-based practices in addiction treatment: a survey of Veterans Administration program leaders.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2004 Willenbring ML, Kivlahan D, Kenny M, Grillo M, Hagedorn H, Postier A