AndrologyUnited States
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Gender Affirming Genital Reconstructive Surgery)
Los Angeles, CA
Clinical and research fellowship in gender affirming genital surgery within a urology-led interdisciplinary transgender surgery and health program. The one-year track focuses on feminizing or masculinizing surgery with exposure to both; the two-year track teaches both.
Length12 or 24 months
StartsJuly 1
Non-accreditedListed on GURS US/Canada fellowship page
What stands out
- Optional basic science research in the program director's lab
- Case mix includes right-colon vaginoplasty and robot-assisted peritoneal vaginoplasty
- Adult and pediatric intersex/DSD genital reconstruction, with Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology
- Program leadership training for starting a transgender surgery program, plus academic exchange visits in the US and abroad
- Program lead
- Maurice Garcia
- Apply through
- SMSNA Select
- Focus
- Feminizing and masculinizing genital surgery with sexual medicine, penile prosthesis, priapism and penile revascularization; mandatory clinical and laboratory research
- Eligibility
- Open to Canadian-trained applicantsUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
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Training
- Structure
- 12-month block of surgery and clinic with dedicated research time; two-year option available
- Research
- Dedicated research time: clinical research, with optional basic science in the program director's lab; biostatistician and research assistant support
- Case numbers
- 142 total cases logged by the 2025-26 fellow
- 2025-26 fellow: 21 vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty or neovagina, 12 phalloplasty, 5 metoidioplasty
- 2025-26 fellow: 44 anterior urethroplasty, 18 penile prosthesis cases
- Cis-gender men's health surgery is 5 to 10% of the practice
- Hospital
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Requirements (2)
- US and Canadian applicants
- Letter of interest, CV and two letters of support sent to the administrator