Christopher Bredeson

Christopher Bredeson

MD MSc FRCPC

Senior Clinician Investigator, Cancer Research

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Head, Malignant Hematology & Stem Cell Transplantation

The Ottawa Hospital

Contact

(613) 737-8899 ext 73904

Bio

Dr. Christopher Bredeson received a medical degree (cum laude) from the University of Ottawa. His post-doctorate training included an internship and residency in internal medicine at The Ottawa Hospital, as well as a residency in clinical hematology and a fellowship in the Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He holds a Masters degree in Clinical Epidemiology also from the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Bredeson returned to Ottawa in 2011 after a decade at the Medical College of Wisconsin where he was a Scientific Director at the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. While there he participated in the establishment of the NIH funded Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network and designed and ran several of their early trials. Dr. Bredeson returned to Ottawa to run the Malignant Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation Programme at The Ottawa Hospital.

Dr Bredeson is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

Research Goals and Interests

Dr. Bredeson’s research interests remain primarily in clinical research related to improving results of allogeneic stem cell transplantation. He has a growing interest in the issues related to health care delivery and sustainability.  He participates in National and International observation research studies and with local colleagues on trials of novel therapies for poor risk patient populations.


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