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MD, MAS
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Maurice M. Garcia, MD, MAS is Associate Clinical Professor of Urologic Surgery In Residence at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he serves as Director of the Cedars-Sinai Transgender Surgery and Health Program. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Urology (Adjunct) in the Department of Urology, and, in the Department of Anatomy, at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Dr. Garcia completed residency training in urology at UCSF. He then completed 3 clinical fellowships in: (1) Andrology/Sexual Medicine and Neurourology (UCSF), (2) Feminizing [MtF] genital gender affirming surgery (GAS) (UK), and (3) Masculinizing [FtM] genital GAS (UK).
Dr. Garcia also completed a 2-year Master’s Degree in Clinical Research in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at UCSF.
Dr. Garcia specializes in both masculinizing and feminizing gender affirming genital surgery and reconstructive urology, neurourology, sexual medicine, and transgender surgery education. He founded the genital gender affirming surgery program at UCSF in 2013, and in 2017, he founded and currently leads the Transgender Surgery and Health Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Garcia is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), and serves WPATH as a Global Education Initiative (GEI) educator, and, serves as a co-author of WPATH’s upcoming Standards of Care v8.0 clinical care guidelines for transgender health. For the American Urologic Association (AUA), he serves as Section Editor for the AUA’s Education Core Curriculum section for transgender/gender affirming genital surgery. Dr. Garcia has led genital gender affirming surgery hands-on cadaver-based courses in the U.S. and internationally.
Dr. Garcia’s research at Cedars-Sinai is funded by NIH R01 Research Grant (1R01CA201709-01) for which he is Principal Investigator.
Dr. Garcia is the Fellowship Director for the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Transgender Surgery and Health Program’s Genital Reconstruction fellowship for urologists and plastic surgeons.
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Friday, May 13, 2022
4:27 PM – 4:34 PM