Dr. Garry L.S Pigot, completed his medical education at the University of Amsterdam and his residency in Urology at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. After completion of his residency he was a fellow at the department of urology at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek – Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam in 2012. In 2013 he started a fellowship of andrology, reconstructive urology and trans gender care at the department of urology in the VU University Medical Center and has since been a member of the Center of Expertise on gender dysphoria also in the VU University medical center. Since 2017 he is part of the medical staff of the department of urology of the VU medical center and his field of attention is genital reconstructive urology, andrology, prothesiology (cis and trans men) and masculinization gender affirming surgery.

In 2021 he received his PhD based on the thesis: Gender urology: outcomes of urological care in gender affirming process.

Dr. Loren Schechter

Dr. Schechter is Professor of Surgery and Urology and Chief of Gender Affirmation Surgery at Rush University.   He serves on the Executive Committee of The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), co-authored the 7th Edition of The Standards of Care, and served as co-lead for the Surgery and Post-Operative Care section of the 8th Edition of The Standards of Care.  He authored the first surgical atlas concerning Surgical Management of Transgender Individuals and is a founding member and president-elect of The American Society for Gender Surgeons.  Dr. Schechter is recognized by Castle Conolly and Chicago Magazine as a “Top Doctor.”

Dr. Schechter is a past president of both the Illinois Society of Plastic Surgeons and The Chicago Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.  He was the recipient of the 2013 Illinois State Bar Association Community Service Award for his advocacy efforts on behalf of the transgender community, was an invited discussant to the Pentagon in 2017 to discuss military service by transgender individuals, and was a recipient of The University of Minnesota Program in Human Sexuality award as a Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Revolutionary.

Dr. Schechter received his medical degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his residency in general and plastic surgery as well as a fellowship in reconstructive microsurgery at the University of Chicago Hospitals.  While at the University of Chicago, Dr. Schechter was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society and graduated as The Outstanding Student in Surgery.