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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Global Women’s Health

Dr. Michael Breen is an Irish obstetrician-gynecologist with nearly 20 years of clinical experience in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. He serves as Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Monze Mission Hospital, a referral hospital for the rural Monze District. He provides general inpatient and outpatient care, but specializes in the management and treatment of obstetric fistulae. Dr. Breen is one of the region’s top experts in surgical fistula repair, having trained at referral centers in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda. He conducts regular surgical missions to Malawi, Angola, Sudan, and Sierra Leone on an annual basis – in addition to trips to remote Zambian districts – where he performs fistula repairs for several weeks at a time.