Research & MoreGender-affirming surgeryUnited States
Mount Sinai Fellowship in Reconstructive Urology and Gender Affirmation Surgery (gender-affirming surgery)
New York, New York
One-year GURS fellowship in reconstructive urology centred on gender affirmation surgery, with added training in complex lower urinary tract surgery, robotic bladder neck and upper tract reconstruction, prosthetics, Peyronie's disease and radiation complications.
Length1 year
StartsJuly 1
GURS
What stands out
- Vaginoplasty training covers penile inversion, peritoneal flap and sigmoid techniques, plus revisions
- Urologists perform almost all gender affirmation cases without plastic surgery assistance
- Phalloplasty curriculum uses both free flap and local flap techniques
- Program leads
- Rajveer Purohit, Miroslav Djordjevic
- Apply through
- AUA / GURS Match
- Focus
- Gender affirmation surgery (metoidioplasty, vaginoplasty incl. peritoneal flap and sigmoid, phalloplasty) with complex lower and upper tract reconstruction and prosthetics
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
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Training
- Structure
- 4 OR days per week (2-3 gender affirmation, 1-2 other reconstruction) plus 1 clinic day; graduated autonomy and resident teaching
- Case numbers
- 2025-26 fellow case log: 486 cases, including 157 penile prosthesis, 87 anterior urethroplasty and 85 vaginoplasty/vulvoplasty
- Hospital
- The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
- Faculty
- Gregory Amend, Robert Valenzuela, Michael Palese, Peter Wiklund, Jerry Blaivas