About Our Clinic

UNC Urology is a regional leader in transgender care. We offer a full range of urologic services including primary gender affirmation surgery (including metoidioplasty, penile prosthesis, phalloplasty, orchiectomy and vaginoplasty) and revisions after surgery in a respectful and compassionate environment. Our team has experience managing the most complex urologic cases.

Gender Affirmation Surgery

UNC Urology is a regional leader in transgender care. We offer a full range of urologic services including primary gender affirming surgery (including metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty), penile prosthesis, and orchiectomy. We also specialize in the management of complications from gender affirmation, such as strictures and fistulas. In July 2019, the Department of Urology launched the UNC Transgender Health Program in order to improve access to UNC Healthcare for transgender patients in the region.

Services

Our Team

Katherine Croft, BSN, RN

Program Manager, UNC Transgender Health Program
Pronouns: She/Her

Bio: Katherine Croft, BSN, RN is the Program Manager for the UNC Transgender Health Program. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from UNC-Chapel Hill after a career in operations and logistics management, and is responsible for the operations, planning, and development of the UNC Transgender Health Program.

Katherine is involved in all aspects of patient care and program processes for the UNC Transgender Health Program.

Shae Bardgett, RN

Nurse Coordinator, Education, UNC Transgender Health Program
Pronouns: They/Them

Bio: Shae Bardgett, RN is a Nurse Coordinator for the UNC Transgender Health Program who specifically works with gender-affirming care education at UNC and beyond. They received their nursing degree Adventist Health University and have worked as an inpatient surgical nurse for >12 years in intensive and acute surgical care settings.

In acting as the primary educator for the program, Shae will be in contact to assist with planning and education needs throughout your care process. Shae is also the primary educator for UNC Staff and partner organizations regarding gender-affirming care and assists in developing care practices and policies for the treatment of our patients.

Amy Wilcox, BSN, RN

Nurse Coordinator, Surgical, UNC Transgender Health Program
Pronouns: She/Her

Bio: Amy Wilcox, BSN, RN is a Nurse Coordinator for the UNC Transgender Health Program who specifically works with our surgical patients. She received her BSN from University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and has been with UNC Health since 2016, with >5 years of experience in a surgical intensive/intermediate care setting.

Amy acts as the surgical navigator for the program. She is the primary point of contact for patients seeking gender-affirming surgical care at UNC and will be a part of the initial surgical consult for genital surgery procedures, including metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty.

Providers

Brad Figler, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Urology
Director of UNC Transgender Health Program
Associate Program Director, Andrology Fellowship

Dr. Figler’s practice offers comprehensive Men’s Health and genitourinary reconstruction services. Areas of expertise include penile prosthesis implantation, Peyronie’s Disease, male urinary incontinence and male urethral/genital reconstruction for diseases including lichen sclerosus, genital skin deficiency, buried penis, hidradenitis, fistula, stricture and genital cancer. Dr. Figler also specializes in genital gender affirming surgery, including metoidioplasty, phalloplasty and vaginoplasty.

Jennifer Carr, MD

Associate Program Director, Plastic Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Erin Carey, MD, MSCR

Director, Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Martha Fairbanks Perry, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Medical Director, UNC Children's Primary Care Clinic
Associate Program Director, UNC Pediatrics Residency Program

Elda Fisher, MD

Program Director, Maxillofacial Surgery Department

Nina Jain, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric Diabetes Program
Co-Director, Pediatric And Adolescent Clinic For Gender Wellness Program
Associate Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology

Rita Lahlou, MD

Assistant Professor, Family Medicine

Cathy Lee, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Amy Elizabeth Levenson, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship

Michelle Louie, MD

Assistant Professor, Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery

Adeyemi "Yemi" Ogunleye, MD

Director of Transgender Surgery, UNC Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Urology

Contact Us

For Providers:

For UNC Providers/Providers who use Epic: Referral Instructions
For outside referrals: Fax referrals to 919-966-0098 with attn: Transgender Health Program

All referrals should include:

• Reason for referral
• Patient name and pronouns
• Any relevant medical records
• Letters of support for gender-affirming surgery, if applicable

How to contact the Transgender Health Program

If you are interested in:

• Learning more about the program
• Starting or learning about our Pediatric Gender Clinic
• Receiving hormone therapy
• Receiving gender-affirming primary care
• Being connected with gender-affirming physicians
• Receiving mental health services
• Starting or learning about our surgery process
• Or learning more about community resources
• Ask us about financial assistance

IMPORTANT NOTICE (3/15/2021):

Our most central goal at THP is to continue to provide the best gender-affirming care possible and ensure all our patients get what they deserve. To balance the needs of both our new and existing patients as we work to restructure and incorporate new supportive resources, we are temporarily pausing the intake of new patients into the Transgender Health Program. As of Monday, 3/15/2021, all new patients will be placed on a waitlist. We will use this waitlist to track all new patients and their needs. As we catch up with care navigation for existing patients and incorporate additional support resources, we will slowly add new patients to the program on a first-come, first-serve basis from this waitlist.

You can add your name to our waitlist at bit.ly/thpwaitlist.

Please also see our full statement regarding this change here.

Resources

UNC Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology | Transgender Health

UNC Psychiatry Gender Equity and Wellness Initiative

UNC Health Pediatric and Adolescent Clinic for Gender Wellness (PAC-G)