Associate Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics) and of Pediatrics; Director of Tissue Engineering

Departments & Organizations
Surgery: Pediatric Surgery | Cancer Center, Yale: Pediatric Oncology Program | Internal Medicine: Digestive Diseases: Gastroenterology: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program | Pediatrics: Pediatric Endocrinology: Pediatric Thyroid Center; Pediatric Specialty Center | Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program | Yale Medical Group
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
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Education
- B.A., College of The Holy Cross, 1986
- M.D., Brown-dartmouth Medical Program, 1990
Selected Publications
- Qian X, Brennan MP, Dione DP, Dobrucki IWL, Jackowski MP, Breuer CK, Sinusas AJ, Papademitris X. A non-parametric vessel detection method for complex vascular structures. Med Image Anal. 13(1):49-61, 2009.
- Shinoka T, Breuer C. Tissue-engineered blood vessels in pediatric cardiac surgery. Yale J Biol Med. 81(4):161-6, 2008.
- Joshi A, Qian X, Dione D, Bulsara K, Breuer C, Sinusas A, Papademetris X. Effective visualization of complex vascular structures using a non-parametric vessel detection method. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 14(6):1603-10, 2008.
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