Research & MoreGender-affirming surgeryUnited States
OHSU Urologic Reconstructive and Gender-Affirming Surgery Fellowship (gender-affirming surgery)
Portland, Oregon
One-year GURS-listed fellowship in genitourinary reconstruction centred on genital gender-affirming surgery, training with OHSU Urology and Plastic Surgery faculty; open to board-eligible or board-certified urologists.
Length1 year
GURS (program on probation)
What stands out
- Urology faculty lead the vaginoplasty and metoidioplasty programs; phalloplasty is done with Plastic Surgery
- Fellows help build gender-affirming clinical pathways and attend program and surgical leadership meetings
- Department offers robotic-assisted peritoneal flap vaginoplasty and perineal or robotic vaginal remnant excision
- Training sits within OHSU's Transgender Health Program, founded in 2015
- Program lead
- Geolani W. Dy
- Apply through
- See the program website
- Timeline
- Follows general GURS deadlines; interviews offered on a rolling basis, early submission advised
- Focus
- Gender-affirming genital surgery and genitourinary reconstruction within the OHSU Department of Urology and Transgender Health Program
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
Training
- Structure
- Training with Urology faculty (3 GURS-trained, 1 URPS-trained) and Plastic Surgery; monthly multidisciplinary transgender health conference
- Research
- Research opportunities offered
- Hospital
- Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
- Faculty
- Daniel D. Dugi III, Jyoti Chouhan, John Barry, Kamran Sajadi