Transgender Medicine

Gender-Affirming Transgender Medicine at UConn Health

UConn Health’s transgender medicine team is devoted to providing compassionate, safe, and gender-affirming care to our diverse patients. This includes, but is not limited to, transgender, nonbinary, gender-fluid, or questioning. Our range of services is comprehensive, evidence-based, trauma-informed, and sensitive to your personal needs.

In our dedicated transgender medicine office, we partner with primary care and subspecialty providers to deliver a broad, full spectrum of care.

We conduct a thorough assessment of each patient to:

• Establish a diagnosis of gender incongruence
• Determine if gender affirming hormone therapy is appropriate
• Guide medication management

Please note that we only see adult patients (individuals over the age of 18).

We offer gender-affirming services and additional therapies, including:

• Primary Care Services
  Our primary care providers, Rebecca Andrews, MD, Angela D. Hart, DO, Marilyn A. Katz, MD, David Ozimek, MD, and Ivan Stanford, MD, offer LGBTQIA+-specific care in a safe and welcoming environment.

• Hormone Therapy
  Our specialists, Pooja Luthra, MD, FACE and Britta L. Shute, FNP-BC, offer a comprehensive hormone therapy program.

• Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Surgery
  Our specialists, Denis Lafreniere, MD and Hillary A. Newsome, MD, offer a range of services, including voice modification surgery, nose-correction surgery (rhinoplasty), reduction of the neck cartilage (thyroid chondroplasty), and eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty).

• Ophthalmology
  Our specialist, Madina Falcone, MD, MS, offers a range of services, including eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty)

• General Urological Care
  Our specialists, Brooke A. Harnisch, MD and Stanton Honig, MD, offer a range of services, including:
  
  • Routine urologic care
  • Testosterone replacement
  • First stage gender-affirming surgery MtF (bilateral orchiectomies)
  • Revision surgery for MtF – urinary and external labial issues
  • Fertility preservation counseling and services MtF (sperm cryopreservation)
  • Long-acting testosterone pellets by referral

• Gynecology
  Our specialists, Ramzi Alkass, MD, Shannon L. DeGroff, MD, Danielle E. Luciano, MD, Christopher M. Morosky, MD, and David H. Park, DO, offer a range of services, including:
  
  • General gynecological care
  • Oophorectomy
  • Hysterectomy, menstrual suppression, pregnancy prevention, and prenatal care

• Pelvic Physical Therapy
  Our specialist, Cathy Trahiotis, PT, MA, offers a range of services to improve stability and movement of the pelvic area

• Plastic/Cosmetic Surgery
  Our specialist, Jillian L. Fortier, MD, offers a range of services, including breast augmentation, mastectomy/male breast reduction, facial fat grafting, and facial fillers

• Voice Therapy
  Our voice specialists, Starrlett M. Cookman, MA, CCC-SLP, Patricia B. Doyle, MA, CCC-SLP, and Janet E. Rovalino, MS, CCC-SLP, offer a range of services, including verbal and non-verbal communication strategies and characteristics to help you achieve your desired gender presentation