Connect

You are invited to participate in the next Medical Center Hour, "Medical Center Hour: Starting a Gender Affirming Surgery Program" on Wednesday, April 13. Details:

Starting a Gender Affirming Surgery Program
Wednesday, April 13 | noon-1 p.m.
Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium and Zoom

Speakers include Rachel Bluebond-Langner, MD, Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Associate Professor of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY; Charley Burton, Sydney Walther and Rochelle Walther, panelists; and John T. Stranix, MD, UVA Assistant Professor in the Departments of Plastic Surgery and Urology, moderator.

Resources:

1. Transgender Health The Fenway Guide by Alex Keuroghlian Jennifer Potter Sari Reisner
2. Deutsch, M.B. (2016). Gender-affirming Surgeries in the Era of Insurance Coverage: Developing a Framework for Psychosocial Support and Care Navigation in the Perioperative Period. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 27(2), 386-391. doi:10.1353/hpu.2016.0092.
3. Coleman, E., Bockting, W., Botzer, M., Cohen-Kettenis, P., DeCuypere, G., Feldman, J., ... & Zucker, K. (2012). Standards of care for the health of transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people, version 7. International journal of transgenderism, 13(4), 165-232.

Dr. Bluebond-Langner is the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Associate Professor of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone Health. She serves as co-director of Transgender Surgery Services and performs the full spectrum of gender affirming genital and chest surgeries in a multidisciplinary setting. She serves as Associate Editor of both the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal and the International Journal for Transgender Health and is active in gender affirming surgery outcomes research.

Dr. Stranix is as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Plastic Surgery and Urology. He joined the UVA Health faculty in 2019 after completing his plastic surgery residency training at NYU and a reconstructive microsurgery fellowship at Penn. Specializing in complex reconstruction, he has developed a focus in gender affirming surgical care of the chest, body, and genitals. He leads the UVA Health Gender Affirming Surgery Program.

Dr. Bluebond-Langner and Dr. Stranix have declared no personal/professional relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services related to this presentation. Medical Center Hour planning group members M.D. Childress PhD; R.J. Bonnie LLB; R. Carpenter DrNP; J.F. Childress PhD; M.F. Marshall PhD; J. Mutter MD MA; K. Reid PhD RN FNP-C CNL; L. Shepherd JD have no personal/professional relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services, while R. Dillingham MD MPH reports interests with Gilead and Warm Health Technology Inc. UVA Office of Continuing Medical Education faculty and staff have no personal/professional financial relationships with commercial entities producing healthcare goods and/or services.

Medical Center Hour is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, see Center for Health Humanities and Ethics: https://med.virginia.edu/biomedical-ethics/medical-center-hour/

Watch Medical Center Hour recordings at https://www.youtube.com/user/UVAMCH

How to Claim Continuing Education (CE) Credit for Medical Center Hour: Using the Google Chrome or Firefox browser on a phone, tablet, or computer, go to https://cmetracker.net/UVA and log into your CE account with your email and password. Choose ‘CE Certificate-Eval for Credit,' enter Activity Code 143028 then complete and submit your evaluation. You have 30 days from this program date (13 April 2022) to evaluate and obtain credit for this program. This is the only way you can receive credit for this Medical Center Hour.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Virginia (UAV) School of Medicine/School of Nursing is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. UVA School of Medicine/School of Nursing designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.^TM  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. UVA School of Medicine/School of Nursing awards 1contact hour for nurses who participate in this educational activity and complete the post-activity evaluation. UVA School of Medicine/School of Nursing awards 1 hour of participation (consistent with the designated number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM  or ANCC contact hours) to a participant who successfully completes this educational activity. UVA School of Medicine/School of Nursing maintains a record of participation for six years.