As a urologist, Dr. Bretan is highly trained to treat disorders of the male and female urinary tract (bladder, ureter, kidney, and urethra) and the male reproductive system. Urology is classified as a surgical subspecialty, but since a wide variety of clinical problems are encountered when treating urological conditions, knowledge of internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, and other specialties is required.

Peter N. Bretan, M.D., FACS

Mission Statement: "In Life, there are no careers that yield greater rewards than those that help comfort the weary, heal the sick and save lives."

Peter N. Bretan, Jr., MD, FACS, is a Past ('06-'07) President of the Marin Medical Society and a past full time Associate Professor of Urology from the University of California at San Francisco. He continues to serve in leadership positions as a delegate of the California (CMA) and American (AMA) Medical Associations.

He is the founder and director of RotaPlant, an on going medical mission that performs life-saving kidney transplants in underdeveloped countries. This organization also instructs physicians in these countries on the use of new minimally invasive operative technologies as that of laparoscopic kidney removal (nephrectomy) for use in living donor renal transplantation.

Dr. Bretan received his medical degree from the UCSF School of Medicine in 1980, and then completed his urology residency at the same institution. He then completed a research fellowship at UCSF studying "The Diagnosis and Imaging of Prostate Cancer."

Dr. Bretan continued specialized training in Renal Transplantation & Reno vascular Surgery, completing a formal fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is a former American Urological Association's Urology Journal Scholar ('87-'89), completing a rigorous research curriculum in Renal & Reno vascular Preservation Metabolism. Since that time Dr. Bretan has published over 100 scientific articles covering both clinical and original research subjects, which have been the basis of multiple academic awards.

With these preparations for an academic career he has enjoyed varied and rich clinical tenures. He is a former Director of Transplantation (St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio; Harbor-UCLA in Torrance,CA; and St Mary's Medical Center Long Beach, CA). Most recently he was Chief and Surgical Director of Transplantation at the Northern California Kidney Transplant Center in Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Currently he continues in the academic arena by teaching peri-medical students.

Dr. Bretan is a full, participating member of over 25 medical societies and continues to be an active transplant surgeon (with over 800 renal transplants performed) and has a busy General Urology practice with emphasis in urologic (especially renal) oncology, female urology and renal laparoscopic surgery.

As an active member of the Novato Rotary Club he is the Chair of the RotaPlant Lifesaving District 5150 Rotary Project and Organ Donation Awareness Committee.