ReconstructionUnited States
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
Non-accredited, urology-led clinical and research fellowship in gender-affirming genital surgery: a 1-year track focused on feminizing or masculinizing surgery with exposure to both, or a 2-year track covering all options in both.
Length1 year (clinical and research); 2-year option
StartsJuly 1 (2025-2026 year)
Non-accreditedListed on the GURS US and Canada fellowship track
What stands out
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic peritoneal vaginoplasty, and right-colon vaginoplasty with colorectal surgery
- Pediatric and adult intersex/DSD reconstruction, with the pediatric surgery and pediatric urology teams
- Program leadership training for fellows who want to start a transgender surgery program elsewhere
- Academic exchange visits, in person and virtual, with experts in the US and abroad
- Program lead
- Maurice Garcia
- 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
- Gender-affirming genital surgery (feminizing and masculinizing), intersex/DSD reconstruction, GU prosthetics, sexual medicine
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
- Contact
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Training
- Structure
- 12-month block of surgery and clinic plus dedicated research time
- Research
- Clinical research with or without basic science in an NIH-funded lab (PI Garcia); biostatistician and research assistant support
- Case numbers
- 142 cases logged by the 2025-2026 fellow
- 44 anterior urethroplasties, 21 vaginoplasties, 12 phalloplasties, 18 penile prosthesis cases (2025-2026 fellow)
- Cisgender men's health surgery is 5 to 10% of the practice
- Hospital
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center