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Christopher D. McClung

Christopher D. McClung

🇺🇸 United States🏥 Reconstructive Surgical Arts, Columbus, OhioMD, MS
Mentored by · fellowship 2010
Hunter Wessells
with Bryan B. Voelzke

Training and career​

  • Current position Founder and surgeon, Reconstructive Surgical Arts, Columbus, Ohio, a practice devoted to gender-affirming surgery, working in partnership with OhioHealth1
  • Graduate degree MS, organic chemistry, University of Minnesota1
  • Medical school Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia (1999–2003)12
  • Residency Urology, Loyola University Medical Center (2003–2009)12
  • Fellowship Trauma and reconstructive urology, University of Washington and Harborview Medical Center (2009–2010), with Hunter Wessells and Bryan B. Voelzke2
  • Career Faculty member, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, for five years after fellowship; performing gender-affirming surgery since 201712
  • TURNS Founding member; now an affiliated member, Trauma and Urologic Reconstructive Network of Surgeons2

Contributions​

McClung's early work covers staged urethroplasty, renal trauma management and TURNS multicenter outcomes of artificial urinary sphincter placement; his current practice is gender-affirming genital surgery.1345

  • Staged urethroplasty (2014). Lead author, with Hunter Wessells, of the staged urethroplasty chapter in Advanced Male Urethral and Genital Reconstructive Surgery.3 Cited on WARWIKI: Bracka Two-Stage Urethroplasty.
  • Immediate surgical management of renal trauma (2013). Led a National Trauma Data Bank analysis of 1,183 patients who had open renal surgery within 24 hours of admission: nephrectomy rates were 54% after penetrating and 83% after blunt injury, and 86% had concomitant surgery for other abdominal injuries.4
  • Artificial urinary sphincter erosion (2014). Coauthored the TURNS prospective study of 386 sphincters at 8 institutions: 31 (8.0%) were explanted, with higher rates after prior radiation, prior UroLume stent placement and 3.5 cm cuffs.5 Cited on WARWIKI: Artificial Urinary Sphincter (Device).

Cited on WARWIKI

1 publication with Christopher D. McClung as a listed author is 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. McClung C, Wessells H. Staged Urethroplasty. In: Brandes SB, Morey AF, eds. Advanced Male Urethral and Genital Reconstructive Surgery. 2nd ed. Humana Press; 2014:289-303.
    Cited on: Bracka Two-Stage Urethroplasty

Footnotes​

  1. About us. Reconstructive Surgical Arts. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. Christopher D. McClung, MD, MS. Affiliated Members, Trauma and Urologic Reconstructive Network of Surgeons. Roster: TURNS members. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. McClung C, Wessells H. Staged urethroplasty. In: Brandes SB, Morey AF, eds. Advanced Male Urethral and Genital Reconstructive Surgery. 2nd ed. Humana Press; 2014:289–303. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7708-2_20 ↩ ↩2

  4. McClung CD, Hotaling JM, Wang J, Wessells H, Voelzke BB. "Contemporary trends in the immediate surgical management of renal trauma using a national database." J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013;75(4):602–606. doi:10.1097/TA.0b013e3182a53ac2 ↩ ↩2

  5. Brant WO, Erickson BA, Elliott SP, Powell C, Alsikafi N, McClung C, Myers JB, Voelzke BB, Smith TG 3rd, Broghammer JA. "Risk factors for erosion of artificial urinary sphincters: a multicenter prospective study." Urology. 2014;84(4):934–938. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2014.05.043 ↩ ↩2