Stefan Breitling ’13 is currently an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an Attending Physician at Boston Children’s Hospital.
After graduating from Amherst College in 2013, Stefan spent a year working at Great Oaks Charter School in Newark, NJ, through Americorps before being accepted to the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He specialized in pediatrics and completed his residency at New York University (NYU) in 2018. After residency, Stefan was selected to spend an extra year as a chief resident at NYU, and then continued his training with his fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston until 2025.
Stefan grew up between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Ames, Iowa, prior to attending Amherst College, where he majored in neuroscience and was an athlete on the wrestling team, as well as involved in teaching, community engagement, and public health extracurriculars.
What impact do you hope to have through your career?
“My clinical goal is to provide excellent care to underserved and marginalized adolescent patients while also working as an advocate for policies to address structural healthcare disparities. My academic goal is to increase the number of medical providers from underrepresented backgrounds through changing admissions policies, as well as providing direct mentorship to premedical students.”