Our center offers a variety of services for all stages of the gender affirmation process. Our providers work with our patients to best meet their gender affirmation goals.
Feminizing Procedures
- Breast Augmentation
- Facial Feminization Surgery
- Cosmetic procedures
- Brow lift
- Facelift
- Forehead reduction/contouring
- Rhinoplasty – Nasal contouring
- Jaw and chin contouring
- Lip augmentation
- Lip Lift
- Tracheal shave (Adams Apple excision)
Masculinizing Procedures
- Mastectomy (Top Surgery)
- Breast removal
- Hysterectomy
- Removal of uterus and ovaries
- Metoidioplasty
- Phalloplasty (construction of the penis)
Meet Your Team
Your doctors have the knowledge, skill, and appreciation of both plastic and reconstructive procedures that will meet your unique needs. As one of only two academic plastic surgery programs in Florida, we place extra emphasis on training and diversity.
Sara Danker, M.D.
Gender Surgery, Microvascular Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
Sara Danker, M.D., is an assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She specializes in complex reconstruction of the trunk, pelvis, and lower extremities, and in post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. Her primary clinical focus is in transgender surgery and her mission at the University of Miami is to provide facial, chest, and genital affirmation procedures for gender-diverse individuals in South Florida. She is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and a candidate member of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM).
Wrood Kassira, M.D.
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Breast Surgery, Facial Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
Dr. Wrood M. Kassira is a plastic surgeon whose specialties include facial rejuvenation, facelift, blepharoplasty, fat grafting post-bariatric body contouring, liposuction, abdominoplasty, belt lipectomy, panniculectomy, brachioplasty rhinoplasty, facial trauma, post-trauma reconstruction, component separation, skin grafts, wounds, reconstruction of Mohs defects, breast reconstruction, breast augmentation, mastopexy, breast reduction, and more.
She received her medical degree from University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years.
Lauren Michelle Yarholar, M.D.
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Craniofacial Plastic Surgery, Cutaneous (Skin) Surgical Oncology, Facial Plastic Surgery, Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
Dr. Lauren M. Yarholar Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery in the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She has been trained in pediatric and adult plastic surgery and specializes in craniofacial surgery. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma and obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She completed her Plastic Surgery training at Saint Louis University where she gained extensive experience in the treatment and management of pediatric plastic surgery and adult facial cosmetic surgery as well as facial trauma. She has further specialized in facial plastic surgery by being selected as New York University’s Craniofacial fellow from 2019 to 2020.