ReconstructionUnited States
UC Irvine, Center for Reconstructive Urology
Orange, California
One-year GURS fellowship at UC Irvine covering urethral and genital reconstruction, curvature correction, hypospadias, penile prosthetics, men's health, bladder and upper tract reconstruction and male incontinence, with an optional second year of tissue engineering research.
Length1 year (optional 2 years with expanded research and clinical experience)
StartsJuly 1 (2025-26 cycle)
GURS
What stands out
- Funded 2-week reconstructive workshop trip to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with possible travel to Bangkok
- Optional 1-week proctorship at an international prosthetic urology centre
- Optional second-year lab work developing silk fibroin grafts for urethra and bladder
- Open, single-port and multi-port robotic approaches
- Program leads
- Joel Gelman, Keith Rourke
- 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
- Urethroplasty, penile and genital reconstruction, prosthetics, ureteral and bladder reconstruction, men's health
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedUS citizenship highly desirable (VA affiliation)
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Training
- Structure
- Clinical year with no general urology clinic or call duties; dedicated academic and outreach time; optional 2-year track adds research
- Research
- Full-time research coordinator and a prospective reconstructive database of 3,400+ cases; optional second year in an NIH-funded tissue engineering lab
- Case numbers
- Program: urethral imaging 200+ per year (retrograde urethrograms and cystourethrograms)
- Program: urethral reconstruction 110+ per year
- Program per year: penile implant 80+, graft harvesting 50+, ureteral and bladder reconstruction 30+
- 2025-26 fellow GURS case log: 294 cases, incl. 91 anterior and 23 posterior urethroplasty, 88 penile prostheses
- Hospitals
- UC Irvine Medical Center · Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center (VA Long Beach) · Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)
- Faculty
- Faysal Yafi, Zhina Sadeghi, Antoine Khoury
Requirements (2)
- U.S. citizenship highly desirable (VA hospital affiliation)
- California medical license required before July 1, 2027