Gary Alter

Gary J. Alter is an American plastic surgeon who practises in Beverly Hills, California. His specialties include sex reassignment surgery, genital reconstruction surgery and facial feminization surgery, and his stated sub-specialty is genital plastic surgery, especially genital reconstruction. He is described as one of the first physicians to hold board certification from both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Urology, and he is an assistant clinical professor of plastic surgery at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he also took his medical degree after studying at the University of California, Berkeley. He has devised original surgical procedures taken up by other plastic surgeons, among them the Alter Central-Wedge labiaplasty technique, and has published in journals such as the Journal of Urology and Annals of Plastic Surgery. He has also appeared on television programmes about cosmetic and reconstructive surgery.