The University of Utah Division of Plastic Surgery is offering a twelve-month Gender Affirming Fellowship beginning August 1, 2025.

This is a comprehensive clinical and academic experience to gain expertise in all aspects of gender affirming surgery.  The fellow will become proficient in facial feminization procedures, masculinizing and feminizing chest surgeries, and masculinizing and feminizing genital surgeries (phalloplasty, metoidioplasty, vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty).  The University of Utah has a well-established  multidisciplinary transgender health group team, which the fellow will be an active participant in, and be involved in clinics and joint conferences with plastic surgery, urology, endocrinology, voice therapy, and physical therapy. 

Throughout the year, the fellow will participate in transgender health research, with the goal of presenting and publishing a peer reviewed research project. 

The fellow will have administrative responsibilities organizing a gender affirming surgery journal club, and teaching residents and medical students. 

The fellow will obtain an appointment as Clinical Instructor in the Division of Plastic Surgery, and will perform general plastic surgery procedures independently to maintain clinical skills in plastic surgery.

The fellow will receive a stipend, based on PGY level, and benefits

Applicants must have completed a ACGME accredited plastic surgery residency and be eligible for a Utah Medical License. 

Please send the following to Isak Goodwin, M.D., Gender Affirming  Fellowship Program Director; C/O Kallie Handy: email kallie.handy@hsc.utah.edu

-A letter of interest
-Curriculum vitae
-3 letters of recommendation

Webpage: https://medicine.utah.edu/surgery/plastic-surgery/fellowships/gender-affirming-surgery