Michelle Brenner, MD
Phone: (757) 668-7400
Practice:
Education
Medical School: SUNY Buffalo
Residency: Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
Certification
American Board of Pediatrics
Personal Statement
After completing residencies at CHKD, my husband and I left for seven years to practice in Texas and Georgia. We could not turn down the opportunity to return to a place we loved to live and work, and we came back to CHKD.
Bio
Dr. Brenner is a professor of pediatrics at Old Dominion University/EVMS. She is a graduate of Purdue University, The University of Buffalo School of Medicine and the pediatric residency-training program at CHKD.
Dr. Brenner is the medical director of The King's Daughters Milk Bank at CHKD and the CSG Division of Breastfeeding Medicine. She is agGeneral academic pediatrician, where she and her partners train 84 pediatric residents and 150 EVMS medical students in outpatient pediatrics. She has been an international board-certified lactation consultant since 2002 and is a 2014 graduate of The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program.
Additional Information
Research Areas
- Breastfeeding medicine
- Academic medicine
Clinical Interests
- Breastfeeding medicine
- Integrative medicine
Honors & Awards
- Virginia Business Magazine "Top Doc" 2024, 2025
- Virginia Living Magazine Top Doctor 2018, 2019
- Health Care Hero, Inside Business 2017
- Coastal Virginia Magazine "Top Doc Allstar" 2014-2025
- 2013 Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Residency curriculum pilot site, co-director
- 2011-2013 Hampton Roads Top Doctors
- 2012 TedMed AAMC Front-Line scholarship recipient
- 2010-2012 Breastfeeding Champion, Virginia Breastfeeding Advocates
Publications
Brenner M, Baker A. Donor human milk at CHKD. Virginia Chapter AAP Newsletter, Summer 2013.
Brenner MG, Buescher ES. Breastfeeding: a clinical imperative. J Women's Health (Larchmt). 2011 Dec;20(12):1767-73.
Brenner M, Sriraman N. An unusual question for a Saturday Morning—Why do most women stop breastfeeding by 3 months? Virginia AAP Newsletter, Summer 2011.
Brenner M. Breastfeeding in Virginia—a form of disaster preparedness? Virginia Chapter AAP Newsletter, Summer 2008.
Brenner M, Oakley C, Lewis D. The evaluation of children and adolescents with headache. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2008 Oct;12(5):361-6.
Spangler AK, Randenberg AL, Brenner MG, Howett M. Belly models as teaching tools: what is their utility? J Hum Lact. 2008 May;24(2):199-205.
Brenner M, Lewis D. The treatment of migraine headaches in children and adolescents. J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2008 Jan;13(1):17-24.
Brenner M, Oakley C, Lewis DW. Unusual headache syndromes in children. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2007 Oct;11(5):383-9.
Brenner M, Lewis D. Whither goest the “migraine variants?” Headache Pain. 2007;18(3):118-22.
Brenner M. You can provide efficient, effective, and reimbursable breastfeeding support—here’s how. Contemp Pediatr. 2005 Sep. Cover Article and CME.
Brenner M. Early newborn follow-up visits-can you afford not to do them? Georgia Pediatrician 2005;14(2):9.
Game (Brenner) MA, Owen WC, Mitchell DK. Cutaneous manifestations of disseminated fungal infection in an immunocompromised child. J Pediatr. 1998 Sep;133(3):466.
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