Toby Meltzer

Toby R. Meltzer is an American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, born in 1957, who became known for gender-affirming surgery, which his source article calls sex reassignment surgery. He graduated from the Louisiana State University school of medicine, completed a general surgery residency there and a plastic surgery residency at the University of Michigan, and then served as a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University, where he also completed a fellowship in the treatment of severe burn injuries. He began performing vaginoplasty in 1993 after learning the techniques and consulting pediatric urologists and surgeons such as Stanley Biber, and in the 1990s he developed a neovaginal construction technique meant to preserve sensation in the neoclitoris. He opened a private practice in Portland, Oregon in 1996 and moved it to Scottsdale, Arizona in 2003. His work also covers facial feminization surgery and metoidioplasty for trans men.