ReconstructionUnited States
Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio
GURS-certified, GME-approved fellowship at UH Cleveland Medical Center in lower and upper urinary tract reconstruction, survivorship reconstruction and gender affirmation surgery, with an optional second year for research and professional development.
Length1 or 2 years
StartsAugust 1 (2025-2026 year)
GURS certifiedGME-approved at UH Cleveland Medical Center
What stands out
- Robotic peritoneal vaginoplasty in addition to penile inversion vaginoplasty
- Optional leadership course and an eight-week LGBTQ+ population health program with capstone and certificate
- Elective with sexual medicine faculty in penile prostheses, Peyronie's disease and male incontinence surgery
- Community-based participatory research, advocacy and legal aid exposure through UH LGBTQ+ and Gender Care
- Program lead
- Shubham Gupta
- Apply through
- AUA / GURS Match
- Timeline
- AUA GURS Match (2027 appointment cycle): registration Nov 6, 2025 to Mar 6, 2026; rank list deadline Jun 5, 2026; results Jun 29, 2026. Next-cycle dates not yet posted as of Oct 1, 2026.
- Focus
- Lower and upper urinary tract reconstruction, survivorship reconstruction, gender-affirming genital surgery
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
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Training
- Structure
- Clinical year: 3.5 OR days and 1.5 clinic days a week, including a half-day independent clinic and 6 weeks a year of attending call; optional research year
- Research
- Optional research year with 3 to 4 mentored projects; registries, biorepository, tissue engineering, device and microbiome work; statistician support
- Case numbers
- More than 100 primary genitoplasties and about 50 revision surgeries per year (UH gender affirmation program)
- About 40 phalloplasties, 20 penile inversion and 50 robotic peritoneal vaginoplasties per year (program)
- About 100 penile implants and 50 male incontinence procedures per year (UH Men's Sexual Health team)
- 186 cases logged by the 2025-2026 fellow, including 50 anterior urethroplasties and 49 vaginoplasties
- Hospital
- UH Cleveland Medical Center
- Faculty
- Joseph Khouri, Aram Loeb, Rachel Pope, Kyle Scarberry, Nannan Thirumavalavan