Programme overview
What the official source supports
NYU Grossman School of Medicine offers a one-year fellowship in adult gender-affirming and reconstructive surgery, with experience in prosthetics and reconstructive surgery (open, robotic and laparoscopic) at NYU Langone's Tisch Hospital and Kimmel Pavilion, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and the Manhattan campus of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System. In the 2025–26 fellowship year the operative volume was 750 cases, of which approximately 250 were gender-affirming.
Training structure
Published areas of exposure
- Gender-affirming surgery
- Urethroplasty
- Genital plastic surgery, including buried penis repair and scrotoplasty
- Prosthetics, including inflatable penile prostheses and artificial urinary sphincters
- Robotic and laparoscopic reconstructive surgery
Eligibility
Who should verify their fit
To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed an ACGME-accredited urology residency program.
Application
Published application route
Applications are accepted from November through February via the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS) fellowship match, administered by the American Urological Association. Send a CV and three letters of recommendation to the fellowship director.
Published application documents
- CV
- Three letters of recommendation
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Programme leadership: Lee C. Zhao, MD (fellowship director) · Leadership profile →
Contact note: Lee.Zhao@NYULangone.org
Sources and verification
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NYU Langone Health — official fellowship page ↗Last reviewed by PlasticFellow: 28 Oct 2026. Information not shown by an official source is labelled as unavailable or requiring confirmation.
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