Dr. Maurice M. Garcia, MD, MAS
Clinical Professor of Urologic Surgery. Director of the Cedars-Sinai Transgender Surgery and Health Program. Genital reconstructive and gender-affirming surgery planned with the Chrisalys team in Beverly Hills.
Meet Dr. Maurice Garcia
Maurice M. Garcia, MD, MAS is 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. At Chrisalys he is the genital and reconstructive surgeon: vaginoplasty, vulvoplasty, orchiectomy, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, hysterectomy coordination, and scrotoplasty, planned next to face, chest, and voice instead of in a separate city.
He specializes in genital reconstructive surgery, including gender-affirming masculinizing and feminizing genital surgery, neurourology, and sexual medicine. He is Fellowship Director for the Cedars-Sinai Genital Reconstruction fellowship for urologists and plastic surgeons, and Associate Program Director of the Fellowship Training Program in Adult Transgender Medicine.
Dr. Garcia completed urology residency and fellowship training in andrology and neurourology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), plus a two-year Master's in Clinical Research in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at UCSF. He then completed clinical fellowships in masculinizing genital gender-affirming surgery at University College Hospital in London (David Ralph and Nim Christopher) and feminizing genital gender-affirming surgery at Charing Cross Hospital and in Brighton (Philip Thomas). He earned his M.D. at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
He is board-certified in urology by the American Board of Urology. He is a member of the American Urological Association (AUA), the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), and a co-author of WPATH Standards of Care version 8, the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA), and the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM). He serves as AUA Core Curriculum Section Editor for Transgender Surgery.
Full academic biography: researchers.cedars-sinai.edu/Maurice.Garcia. Provider profile: cedars-sinai.org. Gender-affirming consults for this team are scheduled through Chrisalys at 436 N Bedford Drive, Suite 202. Medi-Cal, LA Care, IEHP, and private plans use the same insurance desk.
What to expect.
Consult
Use the Chrisalys consult path. Name the genital procedure you want discussed.
Plan
Letters, hair removal, and insurance pre-authorization run for months, not weeks. We write the operative card before you book travel.
Authorization
Referrals and pre-auth should use the surgeon of record we give you, so the plan does not deny on a name mismatch.
Frequently asked questions
Is Dr. Garcia my bottom surgeon if I book at Chrisalys?
He is the genital reconstructive surgeon on this team. Request him when you schedule. Call (310) 247-4729 or use the consult form.
Should my insurance referral say Dr. Garcia?
When he is the surgeon of record, yes. We will give you the line to use so a wrong name does not waste weeks. Call (310) 247-4729.
Where else does he practice?
He directs the Cedars-Sinai Transgender Surgery and Health Program and sees patients at Cedars-Sinai locations, including the LGBTQ+ Center in Beverly Hills. Chrisalys consults for this team are booked here.
Request a consult with Dr. Garcia
Bottom-surgery questions belong in the same practice that plans your face, chest, and voice.