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Geolani W. Dy

🏥 Oregon Health & Science Univ., Portland, OR
Mentored by · fellowship 2019
Lee Zhao

Biography​

Geolani W. Dy is an associate professor of urology at Oregon Health & Science University.12 She earned her MD at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and completed urology residency at the University of Washington.13 Dy completed a reconstructive, robotic, and gender affirming surgery fellowship at New York University in 2018–2019; NYU lists Lee C. Zhao as the fellowship director.14 Dy serves on the board of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons and directs OHSU's GURS fellowship.2

Contributions​

Dy's cited work covers gender affirming genital reconstruction, including robotic peritoneal flap vaginoplasty and revision, vulvar and clitoral construction, and urologic complications after masculinizing surgery.56789

Cited on WARWIKI

18 publications with Geolani W. Dy as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Blasdel G, Dy GW, Nikolavsky D, et al. "Urinary reconstruction in genital gender-affirming surgery: checking our surgical complication blind spots." Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024;153(4):792e–803e. doi
    Cited on: Endoscopy — Cystoscopy & Ureteroscopy · Clitoroplasty — Preputial-Skin Flap with Dorsal Neurovascular-Bundle Pedicle · Feminizing Gender-Affirming Surgery
  2. Dy GW, Salibian AA, Blasdel G, Zhao LC, Bluebond-Langner R. External genital revisions after gender-affirming penile inversion vaginoplasty: surgical assessment, techniques, and outcomes. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022;149(6):1429–1438. doi
    Cited on: Clitoroplasty — Preputial-Skin Flap with Dorsal Neurovascular-Bundle Pedicle · Feminizing Labiaplasty — Labia Majora and Labia Minora Construction · Feminizing Urethroplasty — Urethral Shortening and Feminizing Repositioning
  3. Sineath RC, Butler C, Dy GW, Dugi D. Genital hypoplasia in gender-affirming vaginoplasty: prior orchiectomy, penile length, and other factors to guide surgical planning. J Urol. 2022;208(6):1276–1287. doi
    Cited on: Feminizing Labiaplasty — Labia Majora and Labia Minora Construction · Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty (PIV) · Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty
  4. Dy GW, Kaoutzanis C, Zhao L, Bluebond-Langner R. Technical refinements of vulvar reconstruction in gender-affirming surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020;145(5):984e–987e. doi
    Cited on: Clitoroplasty — Preputial-Skin Flap with Dorsal Neurovascular-Bundle Pedicle · Feminizing Labiaplasty — Labia Majora and Labia Minora Construction · Feminizing Urethroplasty — Urethral Shortening and Feminizing Repositioning
  5. Fascelli M, Peters BR, Dy GW, Dugi DD. Gender-affirming clitoroplasty and construction of the clitoro-urethral complex: an anatomy-guided selection of two techniques. Urology. 2024;183:e320–e322. doi
    Cited on: Clitoroplasty — Preputial-Skin Flap with Dorsal Neurovascular-Bundle Pedicle · Feminizing Gender-Affirming Surgery · Feminizing Urethroplasty — Urethral Shortening and Feminizing Repositioning
  6. Cavallo JA, Vanni AJ, Dy GW, et al. Clinical outcomes of a combined robotic, transabdominal, and open transperineal approach for anastomotic posterior urethroplasty. J Endourol. 2021;35(9):1372-1377. doi
    Cited on: Robotic Posterior Urethroplasty · Combined Abdominoperineal Reconstruction · Pelvic Fracture Urethral Injury (PFUI)
  7. Dy GW, Blasdel G, Shakir NA, Bluebond-Langner R, Zhao LC. Robotic peritoneal flap revision of gender-affirming vaginoplasty: a novel technique for treating neovaginal stenosis. Urology. 2021;154:308–314. doi
    Cited on: Intestinal Vaginoplasty (Sigmoid / Ileum / Right Colon) · Neovaginal Stenosis Management — Stepwise · Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty
  8. Schulster ML, Dy GW, Vranis NM, et al. "Propeller Flap Perineal Urethrostomy Revision." Urology. 2021;148:302–305. doi
    Cited on: Propeller Flap · Propeller Flap Urethroplasty · Midline Perineal Urethrostomy
  9. Berli JU, Ferrin PC, Buuck C, Cylinder I, Putnam C, Dy GW, Peters BR, Llado-Farrulla M, Sajadi KP, Annen A. Long-term urologic outcomes using the Big Ben method for phalloplasty. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2025;156(2):279e-290e. doi
    Cited on: Big Ben Method for Phalloplasty · Pars Fixa Urethral Construction
  10. Butler C, Dugi D, Dy GW. Gender-Affirming Surgery, Care, and Common Complications. In: Cardozo L, Staskin D, eds. Textbook of Female Urology and Urogynecology. Vol 2: Surgical Perspectives. 5th ed. CRC Press; 2023:1270–1279.
    Cited on: Feminizing Urethroplasty — Urethral Shortening and Feminizing Repositioning · Masculinizing Gender-Affirming Surgery
  11. Dy GW, Dugi DD, Peters BR. Skin management during robotic peritoneal flap vaginoplasty for penoscrotal hypoplasia secondary to pubertal suppression. Urology. 2023;173:226–227. doi
    Cited on: Feminizing Labiaplasty — Labia Majora and Labia Minora Construction · Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty
  12. Dy GW, Jun MS, Blasdel G, Bluebond-Langner R, Zhao LC. "Outcomes of Gender Affirming Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty Using the Da Vinci Single Port Versus Xi Robotic Systems." Eur Urol. 2021;79(5):676–683. doi
    Cited on: Peritoneal Flap · Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty

Footnotes​

  1. Geolani W Dy M.D., F.A.C.S.. OHSU. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. GURS Board of Directors. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  3. Surgeon-scientist centers patients in research to improve transgender care. OHSU News. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  4. Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship. NYU Langone Health. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  5. Blasdel G, Dy GW, Nikolavsky D, et al. "Urinary reconstruction in genital gender-affirming surgery: checking our surgical complication blind spots." Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024;153(4):792e–803e. doi:10.1097/prs.0000000000010813 ↩

  6. Dy GW, Salibian AA, Blasdel G, Zhao LC, Bluebond-Langner R. External genital revisions after gender-affirming penile inversion vaginoplasty: surgical assessment, techniques, and outcomes. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022;149(6):1429–1438. doi:10.1097/prs.0000000000009165 ↩

  7. Dy GW, Kaoutzanis C, Zhao L, Bluebond-Langner R. Technical refinements of vulvar reconstruction in gender-affirming surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020;145(5):984e–987e. doi:10.1097/prs.0000000000006796 ↩

  8. Fascelli M, Peters BR, Dy GW, Dugi DD. Gender-affirming clitoroplasty and construction of the clitoro-urethral complex: an anatomy-guided selection of two techniques. Urology. 2024;183:e320–e322. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2023.10.009 ↩

  9. Dy GW, Blasdel G, Shakir NA, Bluebond-Langner R, Zhao LC. Robotic peritoneal flap revision of gender-affirming vaginoplasty: a novel technique for treating neovaginal stenosis. Urology. 2021;154:308–314. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2021.03.024 ↩