Research & MoreGender-affirming surgeryUnited States
University Hospitals Cleveland / Case Western Reconstructive Urology & Gender Affirmation Surgery Fellowship (gender-affirming surgery)
Cleveland, Ohio
GURS-certified fellowship at UH Cleveland Medical Center covering urethral stricture surgery, flap and graft harvest, open and robotic abdominal reconstruction, and vaginoplasty, metoidioplasty and phalloplasty. An optional second year is for research and professional development.
Length1 or 2 years
GURS certifiedUH GME approved
What stands out
- Robotic peritoneal vaginoplasty is part of the case mix
- Eight-week LGBTQ+ population health program ending in a capstone and health certificate, plus a customized leadership course
- Fellow runs a half-day independent clinic and takes attending call six weeks per year
- Program lead
- Shubham Gupta
- Apply through
- AUA / GURS Match
- Focus
- Lower and upper urinary tract reconstruction, survivorship reconstruction, vaginoplasty, metoidioplasty and phalloplasty
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
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Training
- Structure
- Clinical year: 3.5 OR days and 1.5 clinic days per week; optional research and professional development year
- Research
- Optional research year: 3 to 4 mentored projects in tissue engineering, device design, microbiome and community-based participatory research; national datasets and prospective registries
- Case numbers
- More than 100 primary genitoplasties and about 50 revision surgeries per year (UH gender affirmation program)
- Phalloplasty about 40 per year; penile inversion vaginoplasty about 20 per year; robotic peritoneal vaginoplasty about 50 per year
- Men's Sexual Health team: about 100 penile implants and 50 male incontinence procedures per year
- Hospitals
- UH Cleveland Medical Center · UH Urology Institute (UH LGBTQ+ & Gender Care)
- Faculty
- Joseph Khouri, Aram Loeb, Rachel Pope, Kyle Scarberry, Nannan Thirumavalavan