Christopher Kane Breuer, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics) and of Pediatrics; Director of Tissue Engineering
Departments & Organizations
Yale Medical GroupStem Cell Center, Yale
Cancer Center, Yale: Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program: Pediatric Surgery
Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program
Pediatrics: Pediatric Thyroid Center | Pediatric Specialty Center | Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery | Pediatric Surgery
Surgery: Pediatric Surgery
Research Interests
Cardiovascular tissue engineering to develop neo-tissue for reconstructive surgical applications; Director of Tissue Engineering, particularly cardiovascular tissue engineering to develop neo-tissue for reconstructive surgical applications
Clinical Interests
Minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery for neonates, newborns, infants and children; Neonatal surgery, including prenatal consultation, fetal intervention and postnatal surgical care; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO); Esophageal atresia; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Intestinal atresia; pediatric cardiac surgery; pediatric thyroid and parathyroid surgery
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Education
- B.A., College of the Holy Cross, 1986
- M.D., Brown-Dartmouth Medical Program, 1990
Selected Publication
- Roh JD, Sawh-Martinez R, Brennan MP, Jay SM, Devine L, Rao DA, Yi T, Mirensky TL, Nalbandian A, Udelsman B, Hibino N, Shinoka T, Saltzman WM, Snyder E, Kyriakides TR, Pober JS, Breuer CK. Tissue-engineered vascular grafts transform into mature blood vessels via an inflammation-mediated process of vascular remodeling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010. 107(10):4669-74.
Latest Honor and Recognition
- Cum Laude (1986), Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Articles
Sept/Oct 2011
Yale surgeons use engineered vessel to treat child’s heart defect
In August, a toddler born with only one functioning heart ventricle went under anesthesia at Yale so surgeons could...
May/June 2010
An engineered tissue’s surprising development
Christopher K. Breuer, M.D., and Toshiharu Shinoka, M.D., Ph.D., have been studying the use of tissue-engineered...
May/June 2010
Grants and contracts awarded to Yale School of Medicine
FederalSerap Aksoy, NIH, Tsetse Fecundity Reduction for Tryopanosomiasis Control, 5 years, $2,064,820Karen Anderson,...
December 2010
Medical school’s mentors ‘pay it forward’
Though few of the hundreds of busy people who pass through the doors of Sterling Hall of Medicine each day notice the...
Sept/Oct 2007
Growing spare parts for sick children’s hearts
Creating a living, growing organ from scratch sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But a pair of Yale...
Jan/Feb 2007
$3 billion Yale campaign will benefit science and medicine
Nearly a decade after the close of its last major fundraising campaign, Yale has launched “Yale Tomorrow,” a five-year...
May/June 2006
Meeting the demand for blood supply: Yale makes strides in vessel engineering
Although blood vessels may seem like mere plumbing compared to organs like the brain or eye, they are complex and...
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