Warren C. Breidenbach, III, M.D., FRCS

Partner, Kleinert, Kutz Hand Care Center

Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Louisville

Dr. Breidenbach graduated from the University of Calgary, Canada, and received his postgraduate training at McGill University, Montreal, in plastic surgery.  He served a one�]year Microsurgery Fellowship with the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, followed by one year as a Christine M. Kleinert Hand Fellow. Dr. Breidenbach was appointed the first Hand Scholar with the Louisville Institute for Hand and Microsurgery for a period of two years.  His work on vascularized nerve grafts received the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinical Research Scholarship Award.  Dr. Breidenbach also received the Senior Award of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for his work in blood flow to nerves. He led a team of surgeons to perform the nation’s first hand transplant in January 1999 and the second in February 2001.  He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery (Plastic and Reconstructive) at the University of Louisville and is board certified in hand surgery and plastic surgery.  Dr. Breidenbach has served on several committees of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and as Secretary of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve. 

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