{"id":80626,"date":"2024-01-09T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=80626"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:12:58","slug":"new-gender-affirming-surgery-clinic-now-accepting-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/new-gender-affirming-surgery-clinic-now-accepting-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"New gender-affirming surgery clinic now accepting patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Plastic Surgeon Dr. Nicholas Cormier has dedicated nearly his entire career to caring for trans and non-binary patients.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ottawa Hospital understands that trans and non-binary people often face barriers accessing gender-affirming care. Faced with long wait times or even lack of access in the communities where they live, they may struggle to achieve their gender-affirming goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are very pleased to announce that The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s new gender-affirming surgery clinic is here to help. Launched in September 2023, it is the only clinic in Ontario and the second in Canada to offer all three of the following gender-affirming procedures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Facial surgery to make facial features more masculine or feminine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Top surgery to remove breast tissue for a more masculine appearance or enhance breast size for a more feminine appearance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bottom surgery to transform the genitalia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The clinic\u2019s lead and co-founder, Plastic Surgeon Dr. Nicholas Cormier, has some more wonderful news to share: \u201cWe\u2019re currently accepting patient referrals from physicians,\u201d he announces with a smile. \u201cWe\u2019re ready to service Ottawa and the surrounding communities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A truly collaborative effort<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Before our clinic, patients seeking gender-affirming surgery in Ottawa could only access top surgery but not bottom or facial. Previously, a clinic in Montreal was the only location in Canada offering all three procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just a massive gap in our health-care system for the treatment of the transgender population and people seeking gender-affirming care,\u201d says Dr. Cormier. \u201cWhat\u2019s so groundbreaking about this new clinic is that everyone is coming together to address this shortcoming in our system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These partners include different surgical divisions at the hospital\u2014plastic surgery, urology, obstetrics and gynecology\u2014as well as trans health programs out in the community, such as the Centretown Community Health Centre\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centretownchc.org\/trans-health\">Trans Health Program<\/a>, which provides patients with a referral to our clinic, and CHEO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheo.on.ca\/en\/clinics-services-programs\/gender-diversity-clinic.aspx\">Gender Diversity Clinic<\/a>, which provided Dr. Cormier and his team with advice on setting up the clinic and also refers patients who have reached the age of 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These community programs are also important for the overall health and wellbeing of Ottawa\u2019s trans and non-binary population. \u201cAccessing gender-affirming surgery is just one small component of gender-affirming care,\u201d says Dr. Cormier. \u201cThat\u2019s where these community partners really come into play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Years in the making<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For Dr. Cormier, the clinic is the culmination of many years of caring for the gender-diverse community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn my residency, I was always interested in gender-affirming care, and that led me to seek out a fellowship in San Francisco, where I was able to train with world-renowned experts in gender-affirming care,\u201d he recalls. \u201cAnd I\u2019m really excited about bringing that to my hometown of Ottawa.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Ottawa\u2019s gender-diverse community is (literally) in good hands, says Dr. Daniel Peters, Division Head of Plastic Surgery at The Ottawa Hospital. \u201cDr. Cormier has dedicated nearly his entire career to caring for this often underserved patient population. He has learned from the best of the best in this field and has the compassion to match his expertise. He joined The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Division of Plastic Surgery not long ago, and yet he has already shown tremendous leadership by getting this clinic up and running. That\u2019s really a testament to his passion for helping people on their gender-affirmation journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s new gender-affirming surgery clinic is truly one of a kind. Launched in September 2023, it\u2019s the only clinic in Ontario to offer trans and non-binary patients facial, top and bottom procedures. Plastic Surgeon Dr. Nicholas Cormier and his team are happy to announce that they are now accepting patient referrals from physicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":80627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[480,67,412],"class_list":["post-80626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-compassion","tag-innovation","tag-population-health"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}