Dr. Breidenbach graduated from the University of Calgary, Canada, and received his postgraduate training at McGill University, Montreal, in plastic surgery. He served a one-year Microsurgery Fellowship with the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, followed by one year as a Christine M. Kleinert Hand Fellow.

His work on vascularized nerve grafts received the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASPRS) Clinical Research Scholarship Award. He was then appointed the first Hand Scholar with the Louisville Institute for Hand and Microsurgery for a period of two years. Dr. Breidenbach received the Senior Award of the ASPRS for his work in blood flow to nerves.

Dr. Breidenbach acted as lead surgeon on each of the two hand transplants performed in the United States. He is an assistant clinical professor of surgery (Plastic and Reconstructive) at the University of Louisville. Dr. Breidenbach has served on several committees of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and as Secretary of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve. He has written over 35 articles.