Publications I have participated in can be found here.

I am a transgender man and urologic surgeon in residency training. My interests are in patient-centered outcomes, surgical quality, and other health services research related to gender affirming care. I am motivated to care for my community as a surgeon-scientist by my personal experience receiving and returning peer-led health promotion. I bring this lived experience to research publications in surgical outcomes, ethics, medical education, and community-based participatory research practices. I am active in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, including as a member of the Research Committee of the United States Association for Transgender Health.

I initially wanted to follow in the footsteps of many other transgender community caretakers and become a social worker, however I fell in love with surgical care while working at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, an LGBTQ+ primary care clinic. I was in the Health Outreach To Teens program, providing case management services to transgender adolescents and adolescents living with HIV. New York State Medicaid began to pay for gender affirming care soon after I arrived, increasing surgical access over the 5 years that I worked there. I used my experience in peer-led health promotion to create information and support for primary care patients seeking surgery, but I saw firsthand that further resources were needed.

I set out to train as a surgeon, and to draw on the power of academic medicine to ensure that transgender people received the best possible surgical care. In urology, I saw a deep expertise in promoting the dignity of patients as they made surgical decisions informed by their gender, sexuality, reproductive plans, and individual goals for bodily function. During my medical training, I came to appreciate the vast toolbox of urology, which was the first surgical field to widely adopt robotic-assisted laparoscopy. Robotic platforms magnify the surgeon’s view, and allow the surgeon to use a range of motion beyond what is possible with hand-held tools.

I graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School, where I was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society for earning the highest grades in my class, as well as the Gold Humanism Honor Society for achieving kind, safe, trustworthy, and compassionate patient care. Prior to this, I attended Hampshire College where I studied Queer Theory, and the City University of New York where I completed my premedical coursework.

I am committed to healthcare access for all: Transgender health cannot be separated from movements for disability, racial, economic, and women's justice. I belong to a diverse and beautiful LGBT community, and I enjoy art and social theory about trans, LGB, and HIV issues. In the summer, you can find me spending as much time as possible at LGBT beaches.

The views expressed on this website are my own and do not represent any current or former employers or academic institutions.