Surgeon News

Double Incision Top Surgery scar shape is a discussion that Dr. Chandler loves to have with patients and she is an exceptional resource on the topic. With detailed descriptions of each of the possible scar shapes and how anatomy influences them, Dr. Chandler offers up a definitive guide that will help you refine your Top Surgery goals.

The Gender Confirmation Center is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Daniel Jacobs to the practice. The expansion is the result of a thorough search for an exceptional plastic surgeon to join the practice and improve access to Top Surgery by decreasing wait times.

The Crane Center for Transgender Surgery has announced the launch of a gender-affirming hormone clinic at their transgender wellness center in Austin, Texas. The new clinic offers hormone replacement therapy for transgender and non-binary adults through an informed consent model. Both in-office and telemedicine appointments are available.

With last week’s announcement from the Government of Nunavut confirming that the territory will pay for mental health services and transition treatments for transgender and non-binary residents, Canada will now have nation-wide funding available for gender-affirming surgeries.

The Meltzer Clinic, one of the oldest Gender Surgery practices in the United States, is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Nick Esmonde, MD, MPH. During his plastic surgery residency, Dr. Esmonde worked in the Transgender Health Program at OHSU. He subsequently completed a Gender Surgery Fellowship with Dr. Toby Meltzer.

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.

Despite the dissolution of two transgender surgery programs in Miami earlier in 2019, transgender and non-binary Floridians now have newly improved access to transgender surgical care through Restore Med Center.