January 2007 Newsletter | Kentucky Partnership for... -
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Published on: 8/24/2008
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Allen J. Brenzel, MD
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Allen J. Brenzel, MD was nominated by Jeanmarie Piacsek with the Department for Community Based Services and a KPFC board member.
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Dr. Brenzel is a Pediatrician, Pediatric Psychiatrist, and Adult Psychiatrist currently practicing at the University of Kentucky's Comprehensive Assessment and Training Service (CATS) clinic, which he helped start in 1999.Dr. Brenzel is also a professor at UK and part time consultant to DCBS.
In Dr. Brenzel's consultant role with DCBS' Division of Protection and Permanency, he works to provide medical knowledge to all workers interacting with youth with emotional and behavioral disorders, in a timely manner and in language everyone can understand.In Dr. Brenzel's other "life" he works at the CATS clinic at UK's Department of Psychiatry.The CATS clinic works with DCBS to make appropriate placements for children, many of whom suffer from Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD).Dr. Brenzel is passionate about ensuring that placement decisions allow children to grow in the least restrictive, most nurturing environment available.He has an ability to consider all opinions from everyone involved in making recommendations for a child's future, and still make sure the child's needs are the priority.
Dr. Brenzel is always respectful and has a genuine love for working with children.