ReconstructionUnited States
NYU Langone Health
New York, New York
One-year fellowship in adult gender-affirming and reconstructive urology, open and robotic, across NYU Langone, Bellevue and the Manhattan VA; the fellow works as junior faculty, books cases and takes attending call.
Length1 year
Spots1 fellow per year
StartsAugust 1
SalaryEquivalent to PGY-6 at NYU, with benefits
GURS fellowship
What stands out
- Robotic work on multi-port and single-port platforms on most operating days, incl. single-port pyeloplasty and ureteral reimplantation
- GU trauma referred through Bellevue, a state-designated Level I adult trauma centre
- Multidisciplinary gender-affirming program with Plastic Surgery, incl. robotic peritoneal flap vaginoplasty
- Autonomy tracked by operative step, kept separately for open, multi-port and single-port robotic work
- Program lead
- Lee C. Zhao
- Apply through
- AUA / GURS Match
- Timeline
- Applications accepted November through February via the GURS match. 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
- Urethroplasty, robotic upper tract and abdominal reconstruction, urinary diversion, trauma, Peyronie's disease, prosthetics, gender-affirming surgery
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
- Contact
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Training
- Structure
- 4 operating days and 1 clinic day a week; robotic and open cases share the same lists; attending call at about the director's frequency
- Research
- At least one original project resulting in a peer-reviewed paper or a national or international meeting abstract
- Case numbers
- Program: 750 operative cases in 2025-26 across three hospitals, incl. 430 robotic and about 250 gender-affirming (groups overlap)
- Program cases 2025-26 by GURS category: urethral 98, genital 253, abdominal/pelvic 131, prosthetics 68
- Fellow GURS case log 2025-26: 460 cases, incl. 191 vaginoplasty/vulvoplasty and 63 ureteral reconstructions
- Hospitals
- NYU Langone Tisch Hospital and Kimmel Pavilion · NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue · VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, Manhattan campus
Requirements (3)
- Completed an ACGME-accredited urology residency
- CV
- Three letters of recommendation