Gender Affirmating Surgery
Training Opportunity
This training will provide a comprehensive experience in all aspects of gender affirming surgery and will prepare the individual for independence upon completion. Gender confirmation surgery clinical instructor is 1 year position from August 1 through July 31, although dates and length of training are flexible.
Our gender confirming surgery clinical lecturer position offers comprehensive training with the following aspects:
Training with a comprehensive, multidisciplinary team of internationally recognized experts in all aspects of gender confirming surgery.
- Hands-on operative experience and progressive responsibility with a large case load of genital surgery, chest/breast surgery, and facial feminization surgery.
- Participation in the multidisciplinary Comprehensive Gender Services Program, working directly with Urology and Gynecology as well as with our administrative, mental health, adolescent/pediatric, and family practice colleagues:
https://www.uofmhealth.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-services
- Appointment as a Clinical Instructor allowing for independent practice for non-GCS cases in a supportive environment (must have completed an approved Plastic Surgery residency program).
- Opportunities for research and program development. Our team has a long track record of excellence in research and innovation in clinic approaches. Instructors can also get exposure to the administrative functioning of the Comprehensive Gender Services Program.
Clinical Experience
Our center is one of the oldest in the United States; the first penile inversion vaginoplasty was done at Michigan in 1995. Our team performs 3-5 chest masculinizations or feminizations, 2-3 vaginoplasties, and 1-2 other gender confirmation cases weekly. Our program has an integrated phalloplasty clinic with Urology and perform 1-2 phalloplasties and metoidioplasties monthly. Our team members are highly integrated into the national and international community of academic gender surgeons, and fellows will receive exposure to research training and conferences.
Clinical Instructors are involved in teaching residents and medical students. They also have the unique opportunity to serve as a clinical lecturer in plastic surgery with their own general plastic surgery clinic and cases and are integrated into the faculty call pool.
UM CGSP Surgical Team:
Plastic Surgery:
Urology:
- Miriam Hadj-Moussa, MD
- Dana Ohl, MD
Gynecology:
- John Randolph, MD
- Daphna Strousma, MD
- Halley Chrisman, MD
- Pamela Fairchild, MD
- Payton Schmidt, MD
Previous Gender Affirming Surgery Fellows
- Shane Morrison, MD (2020-21)
- Lauren Marquette, MD (2022-23)
- Peter Mankowski, MD (2023-24)
- William Bruce, MD (2024-2025)
Salary & Benefits
https://hr.umich.edu/benefits-wellness
How to Apply
Applicants should forward a personal statement explaining their background and career goals, an updated curriculum vitae, and letters of support from their Chief of Plastic Surgery and their residency program director to:
Program Director
William M. Kuzon, Jr., MD, PhD
Reed O. Dingman Professor of Surgery
Section of Plastic Surgery, University of Michigan
2130 Taubman Health Care Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5340
734-936-5890
wkuzon@med.umich.edu
