When

Saturday, 9 November 2024, 08:00 - 12:00 (SAST)

Format

Online (Zoom)

The annual online PATHSA Symposium will be on 9 November 2024, 8:00-12:00. It promises to be an exciting symposium with an Ethics talk by an international speaker, presentations on South African research in Gender-affirming Healthcare, and a presentation on how to critically engage with the literature and identify anti-trans bias. Please diarise! Programme attached. The zoom link will be on Mighty Network, and non-members will be able to register to receive the link on email.

The PATHSA AGM will follow the Symposium, on 9 November 2024, 12:00-13:00. A new link will be provided on Mighty Network, for members only. If you would like to nominate a new board member, please find the nomination form attached. Nomination forms can be emailed to secretary@pathsa.org.za up to a week before the AGM (by 2 November 2024).

Our Ethics Speaker:

Maurice M. Garcia, MD, MAS is Clinical Professor of Urologic Surgery and Chief of Benign Urology in the Department of Urology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is Director of the Cedars-Sinai Transgender Surgery and Health Program, and, Fellowship Director for the Cedars-Sinai Genital Reconstructive and Gender Affirming Surgery and Sexual Medicine training program. Dr. Garcia specializes in genital reconstructive surgery, including gender affirming masculinizing and feminizing genital surgery, Neurourology, and Sexual Medicine.   

Dr. Garcia completed his residency in Urology and Fellowship training in Andrology and Neurourology in the Department of Urology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He completed a two-year Master’s Degree in Clinical Research in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at UCSF. He then completed clinical fellowships in masculinizing and feminizing genital gender affirming surgery in London and Brighton, England. He served as clinical faculty in the Departments of Urology and Anatomy at UCSF before being recruited to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 2017. 

He is a member of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA) and is Chair of the SMSNA’s LGBTQ Committee. He is a member and educator for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and is co-author of the WPATH Standards of Care clinical care guidelines v8.0. Dr. Garcia is a founding member of LACPATH, the WPATH organization for Latin America and the Caribbean. He serves as the American Urologic Association (AUA) Core Curriculum Section Editor for Transgender Health and Surgery. He is a member of the AUA’s Genitourinary and Reconstructive Surgery (GURS) Society. 

Dr. Garcia completed NIH K08 research training grant #K08HD069462 and is currently Principal Investigator for NIH R01 Research Grant #1R01CA201709-01 (Bladder fiducial markers and multiparametric-MRI (mp-MRI) to optimize total bladder preservation with chemo-radiotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer). He is P.I. for several clinical trials focused on transgender surgery and health.