MD, FACS
Touro University, Vallejo, CA
Dr. Bretan was born in Port Hueneme Naval Hospital in California, son of an immigrant Filipino farmer and disabled Army Veteran from WWII. He is a practicing Urologist, Renal Transplant Surgeon with special training in laparoscopic surgery with leadership experience in Academics, State, Local, National and International arenas.
•Health Care Policy Course Lead Instructor, Touro Medical School 2016.
•Touro Medical School, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Urology
•Past Director of the Cleveland Clinic and UCLA renal transplant programs
•Published over 200 scientific articles (both clinical and original research subjects)
•Recognized expert in kidney transplantation, prostate and bladder diseases
•Expert Reviewer for: J Urology, Urology, Transplantation, Urology Practice and the annual meeting American Urological Association since 1987
•Philippine Medical Society of Northern California (PMSNC), President 2015-17
•UC Berkeley Recipient of the 2011 Excellence in Service Award by the Cal Alumni Association
•AMA alternate delegate since 2003 (active member since 1976, as an AMSA member)
•Recipient 2014 Benjamin Rush Award for Citizenship and Community Service (see www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2014/2014-11-10-peter-bretan-receives-benjamin-rush-award.page)
•Achieved (naval rank) Captain, US Public Health Service Reserves: Deployed to New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina to help reconstitute health care with “Team Orleans” where Awarded the Disaster Service Medal and Outstanding Unit Award from the Office of the Surgeon General
•Appointed by the Surgeon General’s Office to serve on the US Deployable Surgical Team in 2007
•Founder, lead transplant surgeon/urologist for Life Plant International www.LifePlant.org (charitable organization promoting disaster preparedness, organ donation, early disease screening US and abroad)
* Recipient of the The AUA Presidential Citation May 2016.
He believes that the patient-doctor relationship is sacrosanct and should be the basic emphasis for any health care system to remain economically rational, accessible and sustainable.
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Sunday, April 30, 2023
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