Transgender Surgery Programs at Academic Medical Centers in the U.S.

There are now at least 30 academic medical centers in the U.S. that have a transgender surgery program, signalling a growing trend that is improving access to care and filling an important gap in medical education.

Boston Children’s Hospital Center for Gender Surgery – Boston
Procedures: Vaginoplasty, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty, Chest Reconstruction, Breast Augmentation
Co-Director: Dr. Oren Ganor
Note: Patients must be under 35 years of age.

BMC Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery – Boston
Launching in 2016, Boston Medical Center’s program was the first center in New England to provide such a comprehensive transgender health program.
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization Surgery, Orchiectomy & Vaginoplasty, Hysterectomy
Team: Dr. Robert D Oates (URO); Dr. Jaromir Slama, (Plastic Surgery: Top Surgery, Vaginoplasty), Dr. Jeffrey H. Spiegel (FFS).
News: Boston Medical Center Launches First Comprehensive Transgender Medical Center In Northeast

Cedars Sinai Transgender Surgery & Health Program – Los Angeles
Procedures: Facial Feminization, Top Surgery, Breast Augmentation, Body Sculpting, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty, Vulvoplasty, Hysterectomy, Vaginectomy, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty (RFF & ALT.)
Program Director: Dr. Maurice Garcia
Also offers: Transgender Surgery Fellowship Training
Launched in 2017.
News: Transgender Surgery Comes to Major Southern California Hospital

The Center for Gender Confirmation Surgery at Weiss Memorial Hospital
Procedures: Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Metoidioplasty, Orchiectomy, Hysterectomy, Phalloplasty, Top Surgery, Tracheal Shave, Vaginectomy, Vaginoplasty, Body Sculpting
Medical Director: Dr. Loren Schechter
Note: Weiss was formerly associated with the University of Chicago Hospitals system.

Cleveland Clinic – Cleveland
Procedures: Top Surgery, Hysterectomy, Vaginectomy, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty
Program Director: Dr. Cecile Ferrando

Denver Health’s LGBT Center of Excellence – Denver
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Hysterectomy, Metoidioplasty, Facial Feminization, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty
Team: Dr. Marci Bowers (visiting surgeon providing training), Dr. Jennifer Hyer, Dr. Rodrigo Donalisio da Silva, Dr. Meryl Livermore and Dr. Stephanie Malliaris, Dr. David Khechoyan.

Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health – Baltimore
Procedures: Phalloplasty, Vaginoplasty, Top Surgery, Facial Feminization or Masculinization, Hysterectomy, Voice Surgery
Medical Director: Dr. Devin O’Brien-Coons
News: Johns Hopkins to resume gender-affirming surgeries after nearly 40 years; The prestigious school is finally distancing itself from its anti-trans reputation. (2016)

Massachussets General Hospital Transgender Health Program – Boston
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast augmentation, Facial Feminization, Hysterectomy, Phalloplasty, Vaginoplasty
Team includes Dr. Branko Bojovic, Dr. Curtis Cetrulo, Dr. Heather Faulkner, Dr. Jonathan Winograd.

Mayo Clinic – Transgender and Intersex Specialty Care Clinic – Rochester, MN
Procedures: Facial Feminization, Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty, Voice Feminization, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty
Program Co-Director: Dr. Oscar J. Manrique
Launched in 2017

MedStar Center for Gender Affirmation – Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Orchiectomy, Phalloplasty, Tracheal Shave, Vaginoplasty, Vulvoplasty.
Surgeon: Dr. Gabriel Del Corral

Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery – New York City
Procedures: Breast Augmentation, Vaginoplasty (Penile Inversion), FFS, Voice Feminization, Tracheal Shave; Top Surgery, Hysterectomy, Metoidioplasty (Soon: RFF & ALT Phalloplasty)
Team: Dr. Jess Ting, Dr. Zoe Rodriguez, Dr. Aaron Grotas, Dr. Mark Courey
Also offers: Transgender Surgery Fellowship Training

Northwell’s Gender Affirmation Surgery Program at North Shore University Hospital Gender – Manhasset, NY
Procedures: Vaginoplasty, Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty, Top Surgery
Surgeon: Dr. David Whitehead
News: North Shore University Hospital is first on Long Island to offer genital gender-confirmation surgery for transgender patients (Sept 2019)

NYU Langone Medical Center – New York City
Procedures: Body Sculpting, Breast Augmentation, Clitoroplasty, FFS, Labiaplasty, Phalloplasty, Top Surgery, Tracheal Shave, Vaginoplasty
Team: Dr. Rachel Bluebond-Langner, Dr. Lee Zhao (URO), Dr. Jamie P. Levine (Microsurgery)
Also offers: Transgender Surgery Fellowship Training

OHSU Transgender Health Program – Portland, OR
Procedures: Facial Feminization, Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Hysterectomy, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty, Vulvoplasty, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty (RFF, ALT, Abdominal.)
Team: Dr. Daniel Dugi, Dr. Jens Berli, Dr. Myriam Loyo Li, Dr. Lishiana Shaffer, Dr. Joshua Schindler, Dr. Jyoti Chouhan, Dr. Geolani Dy, Dr. Juliana Hansen, Dr. Kamran Sajadi
Also offers: Transgender Surgery Fellowship Training

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital – Philadelphia
Originally launched in 2016 at Hahnemann University Hospital and moved to JUH in 2019.
Procedures: Facial Feminization, Top Surgery, Breast Augmentation, Body Sculpting, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty, Hysterectomy, Vaginectomy, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty (MLD & Abdominal.)
Medical Director: Dr. Kathy Rumer
Also offers: Transgender Surgery Fellowship Training

UCLA Gender Health Program – Los Angeles
Procedures: Facial Feminization, Top Surgery, Breast Augmentation, Body Sculpting, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty, Hysterectomy, Vaginectomy, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty.
Team: Dr. Justine Lee, Dr. Wayne Ozaki, Dr. Jason Roostaeian, Dr. Andrew Da Lio, Dr. George Rudkin, Dr. Gladys Ng, Dr. Mark Litwin, Dr. Tamara Grisales, Dr. Valentina Rodriguez-Triana

UCSF Transgender Care – San Francisco
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Hysterectomy, Orchiectomy.
Surgeons: Dr. Esther Kim (Top), Drs. William Hoffman, Jason Pomerantz, P. Daniel Knott and Rahul Seth (FFS); Drs. Alison Jacoby and Tami Rowen (Hysto); Dr. James Smith (Orchie)

Upstate University Hospital Transgender Care – Syracuse
Procedures: Top Surgery, Reconstructive Urology.
Surgeons: Dr. Dmitriy Nikolavsky & Dr. Dean DeRoberts

University of Colorado Hospital – UCHealth Integrated Transgender Program
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty, Vulvoplasty, Facial masculinization, Phalloplasty.
Surgeon: Dr. Christodoulos Kaoutzanis

University of Florida Transgender Health Program – Gainesville
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Hysterectomy, bottom surgery procedures (unspecified).
Team: Dr. Bruce Mast and Dr. Harvey Chim (plastic), Dr. Lawrence Yeung (URO) and Dr. Emily Weber Lebrun (GYN.)

University of Kansas Transgender Medicine Program – Overland Park
Procedures: Facial Feminization, Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Vaginoplasty, metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty, Body Sculpting.
Team: Plastic surgeons Dr. Richard Korentager, Dr. Satish Ponnoru, Dr. Wojciech Przylecki and Dr. Michelle De Souza; Urologist Dr. Joshua Broghammer; and Gynecologists Dr. Meredith Gray, Dr. Rachel DiTeresi, Dr. Courtney Marsh and Dr. Laura Parks.

University of Kentucky’s Transform Health Clinic – Lexington
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Hysterectomy, Phalloplasty, Orchiectomy, Facial Feminization.
Surgeons: Dr. Kant Lin, Dr. James Liau, Dr. Alison Rasper, Dr. Frederick Zachman, Dr. Mark Hoffman, Dr. Nikita Gupta

University of Miami – Miami
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty, Hysterectomy, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty.
Team includes Plastic Surgeons Dr. Wrood Kassira and Dr. Baotram Tran, and Otolaryngologist Dr. David Edward Rosow.

University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Gender Services Program (CGSP) – Ann Arbor
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Hysterectomy, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty, Vaginoplasty
Team includes surgeons Dr. William Kuzon, Jr., Dr. Miriam Hadj-Moussa and Dr. Paul Cederna.

University of Minnesota Health Comprehensive Gender Care – Minneapolis
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast augmentation, Orchiectomy, Vaginoplasty, Hysterectomy, Phalloplasty
Team includes Plastic Surgeons Dr. Nicholas Kim and Dr. Marie-Claire Buckley, and Urologists Dr. Sean Elliott and Dr. Joshua Bodie.

University of North Carolina Transgender Health Program
Procedures: Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty, Vaginoplasty, Orchiectomy, Reconstructive Urology.
Surgeons: Dr. Brad Figler, Dr. Kristy Borawski, Dr. R. Matthew Coward (all Urologists)

University of Texas – Houston
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Facial Masculinization, Metoidioplasty, Phalloplasty, Tracheal Shave, Vaginoplasty
Surgeon: Dr. Daniel Freet

University of Utah Transgender Health Program – Salt Lake City
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Vaginoplasty, Vulvoplasty, Orchiectomy
Team includes Plastic Surgeon Dr. Isak Goodwin and Reconstructive Urologist Dr. Jeremy Myers.

UW Health Gender Services Program – Madison
Procedures: Top Surgery & Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Vaginoplasty, Vulvoplasty, Hysterectomy,Vaginectomy, Phalloplasty
Medical Director: Dr. Katherine Gast

Vanderbilt University’s Clinic for Transgender Health – Nashville
Procedures: Breast Augmentation, Facial Feminization, Top Surgery, Vaginoplasty, Phalloplasty
Surgeon: Dr. Julian Winocour