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About Andreana Butter

Andreana Butter is a professor in Paediatric Surgery at Western University and a pediatric surgeon at the Children's Hospital (LHSC).

Children's Health Collaborators: Naveen Poonai, Neil Merritt


Dr. Bütter completed medical school at the University of Ottawa and General Surgery residency at Western University.  During residency, she also pursued a year of research at the Montreal Children’s Hospital in fetal surgery and congenital diaphragmatic hernia, which culminated in a Master of Science degree from McGill University in 2001.  After residency, she returned to Montreal for a Pediatric Surgery fellowship at Sainte Justine Hospital (Université de Montréal). In 2005, she joined the Division of Pediatric Surgery and the Department of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital (LHSC) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery.  In 2012, she was promoted to Associate Professor, and in 2020 to full Professor, becoming one of the first female Professors of Surgery at Western University.

In 2018, Dr. Bütter was elected Chair of the Canadian Undergraduate Surgical Education Committee (CUSEC) and became Chair and founding member of the Canadian Conference for the Advancement of Surgical Education (C-CASE). She has been the Vice-Chair of the Pediatric Surgery Board Examination Committee at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada since 2019 and was previously member of the Pediatric Surgery Specialty Committee. She is actively involved in undergraduate education and was the Associate Director of Surgical Education from 2014-2021.  She also serves as the faculty lead for numerous Schlulich Medicine & Dentistry groups.  Dr. Bütter has received funding from the AMOSO Innovation Fund, the Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, and most recently received a Collaborative Research Seed Grant from Schulich Medicine & Dentistry.

Her clinical and research areas of interest include Pediatric Thoracic and General Surgery, such as congenital diaphragmatic hernia, bracing for pectus carinatum, nonoperative management of appendicitis and minimally invasive surgery.  Dr. Bütter helped to develop the first Canadian Robotic Pediatric Surgery Program. She is also a member of the Canadian Consortium for Research in Pediatric Surgery (CanCORPS) and the Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative (PSORC).


Dr. Andreana Bütter completed medical school at the University of Ottawa and residency in General Surgery at Western University. During residency, she also pursued a year of research at the Montreal Children’s Hospital in pediatric surgery; specifically in the area of fetal surgery and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. This research culminated in her obtaining a Master of Science Degree from McGill University in 2001. Upon completing her General Surgery residency, she returned to Montreal for a Pediatric Surgery fellowship at Sainte Justine Hospital (Université de Montréal), which she completed in 2005. She then joined the Division of Pediatric Surgery and the Department of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital (LHSC) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery. In 2012, she was promoted to Associate Professor. She assumed the role of Associate Director of Surgical Education in July 2014. She is also a review editor for Frontiers in Pediatric Surgery journal.

Her clinical areas of interest include Pediatric Thoracic and General Surgery, such as congenital diaphragmatic hernia, bracing for pectus carinatum, nonoperative management of appendicitis and minimally invasive surgery. She helped develop the first Canadian Robotic Pediatric Surgery program. Her research interests are in the areas of fetal surgery with minimally invasive ways of correcting or improving outcomes for congenital anomalies such as bladder outlet obstruction and congenital diaphragmatic hernia.


Research Interest Area 
- Children's health

Research Overview
- The effects of congenital diaphragmatic hernia on molecular markers of lung growth in an ovine model
- Fetal surgery
- The role of TPA in pediatric empyema patients
- Minimally invasive neonatal and pediatric surgery

Positions

Present Pediatric Surgeon, London Health Sciences Centre ‐ Children's Hospital
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Present Professor, Western University Department of Surgery
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