TRANSforming Nursing Education: Infusing Gender-Sensitive Care Into Healthcare - Christine Rodriguez

Bowers, Marci L.: - Marci Bowers, M.D. of Burlingame, California, is acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of Gender Affirmation Surgery and is the first woman worldwide to hold a personal transgender history while performing transgender surgery. She is also the first US surgeon to learn the technique of functional clitoral restoration after Female Genital Mutilation/cutting (FGM/c).Dr. Bowers is a pelvic and gynecologic surgeon with more than 29 years' experience in Women's Healthcare. She is a University of Minnesota Medical School graduate and former class and student body president. Her Ob/Gyn was at the the University of Washington. She continued in Seattle as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist at The Polyclinic and Swedish Medical Center, then joined Dr. Stanley Biber in Trinidad, Colorado in 2003, redefining US transgender surgery.