Dr Fan Liang, MD, to be the next Medical Director of The Johns Hopkins Centre for Transgender Health

Johns Hopkins Medicine has announced that plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr Fan Liang, MD, will become the next medical director of the Johns Hopkins Centre for Transgender Health (CTH), one of the premier institutions of its kind in the nation. Dr Liang is a board certified plastic surgeon, with expertise in a wide range of plastic and reconstructive procedures including paediatric and adult craniofacial (related to the face or skull) reconstruction, oncologic (cancer and cancer-therapy related) and traumatic reconstruction, microsurgery and gender affirmation surgery. Dr Liang comes to the CTH after serving as assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), where she worked at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Centre and was co-director of the Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland Craniofacial Fellowship. At the CTH, which celebrates its fifth year of operation in 2022, Liang joins a team of more than 50 clinicians and staff members involved in transgender health care who have treated more than 2,800 patients and performed more than 600 gender-affirming surgeries.