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​Mang Chen, M.D. is a reconstructive urologist who specializes in genitourinary surgeries for transmasculine individuals. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, San Diego and was elected into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, where he was awarded the Behan Prize in Surgery, and remained in Pittsburgh for his general surgery and urology training. He subsequently completed a fellowship in reconstructive urologic surgery and returned to Pittsburgh, joining the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Urology. After 3 years in Pittsburgh, he returned home to California to perform genitourinary surgeries, including phalloplasty (performed with microsurgeons), metoidioplasty, glansplasty, monsplasty, scrotoplasty, urethroplasty, fistula repair, insertion of testicular and penile implants, penis/scrotal/perineal reconstruction and related procedures. As of March 2024, he has completed over 5300 genitourinary gender affirming surgeries, including 546 phalloplasties, 138 metoidioplasties, 515 penile implant surgeries, 835 testicular implant surgeries, 644 scrotoplasties, 253 glansplasties/glans revisions, 716 urethral surgeries (not counting the urethroplasties performed at time of phalloplasty/metoidioplasty), 567 vaginectomies, and various other reconstructive procedures.
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Dr. Chen is an author of multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, and book chapters in reconstructive urology and plastic surgery. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Urology and a member of multiple surgical associations and societies. He is regularly invited to lecture at conferences and universities. In addition, surgeons from the United States and abroad visit to observe the techniques used to optimize surgical outcomes in transmasculine genitourinary surgeries.
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Urethral Complications after Phalloplasty and Metoidioplasty
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