Gender Confirmation Surgery

CH 1 History, Societal Attitudes, Contexts.- CH 2 Etiology of Gender Dysphoria.- CH 3 The Mental Health Assessment for Surgery.- CH 4 Primary Care for the Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Patient.- CH 5 Hormone Therapy for Transgender Women.- CH 6 Hormone Therapy for Transgender Men.- CH 7 Medical Management of the Adolescent Individual with Gender Dysphoria.- Ch 8 Establishment of a Gender Confirmation Program.- CH 9 Male-to-Female Breast Augmentation and Body Contouring.- CH 10 The Importance of Facial Gender Confirmation Surgery.- CH 11 Facial Gender Confirmation Surgery: Facial Feminization Surgery and Facial Masculinization Surgery.- CH 12 Fertility Preservation Options for Transgender Men Planning Hysterectomy.- CH 13 Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty.- CH 14 Intestinal Vaginoplasty.- CH 15 Female-to-Male Chest Reconstruction.- CH 16 Urethral Anatomy, Urethral Construction in Phalloplasty and Metoidioplasty.- CH 17 MLD Musculo-Cutaneous Latissimus Dorsi) Phalloplasty.-CH 18 Radial Forearm (RF) and Anterolateral Thigh (ALT) Phalloplasty Reconstruction.- CH 19 Management of Urethral Complications Following Metoidioplasty and Phalloplasty.- CH 20 Strategies to Optomize Sexual Function After Genital Gender Affirming Surgery.- CH 21 Post Operative Care from the Primary Care Perspective.- CH 22 Religious Attitudes Toward Gender Confirmation Surgery.- CH 23 History of Gender Identity and Surgical Alteration of the Genitalia.- CH 24 Terminology, Spectrum of Gender Identity and Expression.

Dr. Schechter earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Schechter completed his residency in general surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Chicago Hospitals, and completed a fellowship in reconstructive microsurgery at the University of Chicago, where he currently holds an associate teaching position. Dr. Schechter is an associate professor of surgery, and chief of the division of plastic surgery at Chicago Medical School and Advocate Lutheran General Hospital.
Based in Chicago, Dr. Loren Schechter, MD offers the full spectrum of MTF and FTM procedures, including Vaginoplasty, FFS, Metoidioplasty and Phalloplasty. Dr. Schechter is board certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery and is also a member of: American Society of Plastic Surgery, American College of Surgeons, American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery, Midwest Association of Plastic Surgeons, Illinois Society of Plastic Surgeons, Chicago Surgical Society, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Dr. Schechter lectures nationally and internationally at surgical meetings, universities, and community groups. He received the Illinois State Bar Association Community Leadership Award for advocacy in support of LGBT issues. Dr. Schechter's private practice is located in Morton Grove, and he performs gender confirmation surgeries in his clinic and at other certified medical facilities in the area: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Thorek Memorial Hospital, Weiss Memorial Hospital.