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Lee Zhao

Lee Zhao

🇺🇸 United States🏥 NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
▶ Videos (53)
Mentored by · fellowship 2013
Allen F. Morey
Trainees (2)
🇺🇸 Geolani W. Dy · 2019🇺🇸 Nabeel A. Shakir · 2021

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor of urology and plastic surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine1
  • Medical school Northwestern University (MD)1
  • Residency Urology, McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University1
  • Fellowship Reconstructive surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, with Allen Morey (2013)12
  • Leadership Director of male reconstructive surgery and co-director of the transgender reconstructive surgery program, NYU Langone1

Key Publications​

Zhao's cited work examines robotic reconstruction of ureteral strictures and posterior urethral or bladder neck stenosis, including buccal mucosa grafting and Y-V plasty. Other cited studies address gender-affirming vaginoplasty and surgical revisions or complications.P4P5P3P6P7

  1. Zhao LC, Yamaguchi Y, Bryk DJ, et al. "Robot-Assisted Ureteral Reconstruction Using Buccal Mucosa." Urology. 2015;86(3):634–638. doi

    Robotic buccal mucosa graft ureteroplasty (2015). Described robotic buccal mucosa graft repair for proximal or multifocal ureteral strictures unsuitable for primary anastomosis.

    Cited on: Buccal Mucosa Graft Ureteroplasty · Grafts in Genitourinary Reconstruction · Ureteral Stricture
  2. Jacoby A, Maliha S, Granieri MA, et al. "Robotic Davydov Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty for Augmentation of Vaginal Depth in Feminizing Vaginoplasty." Journal of Urology. 2019;201(6):1171–1176. doi

    Robotic peritoneal flap vaginoplasty (2019). Reported robotic peritoneal flaps to augment vaginal depth during feminizing vaginoplasty.

    Cited on: Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty
  3. Zhang TR, Alford A, Wang A, et al. "Robotic-assisted Posterior Urethroplasty: Outcomes From 105 Men in a Single-center Experience." Urology. 2023;181:167–173. doi

    Robotic posterior urethroplasty series (2023). Senior-authored a 105-patient series reporting outcomes after robotic posterior urethroplasty.

    Cited on: Male Urethroplasty — Incisions & Approaches · Robotic Posterior Urethroplasty · Combined Abdominoperineal Reconstruction
  4. Liu W, Shakir N, Zhao LC. "Single-Port Robotic Posterior Urethroplasty Using Buccal Mucosa Grafts: Technique and Outcomes." Urology. 2022;159:214-221. doi
    Cited on: Vesicourethral Anastomotic Stenosis · Ventral BMG + Gracilis Muscle Flap (Vanni / Zinman) · Robotic Posterior Urethroplasty
  5. Granieri MA, Weinberg AC, Sun JY, Stifelman MD, Zhao LC. Robotic Y-V plasty for recalcitrant bladder neck contracture. Urology. 2018;117:163–165. doi
    Cited on: Indocyanine Green (ICG) · Flaps in Genitourinary Reconstruction · V-Y Advancement Flap
  6. Dy GW, Salibian AA, Blasdel G, Zhao LC, Bluebond-Langner R. External genital revisions after gender-affirming penile inversion vaginoplasty: surgical assessment, techniques, and outcomes. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022;149(6):1429–1438. doi
    Cited on: Clitoroplasty — Preputial-Skin Flap with Dorsal Neurovascular-Bundle Pedicle · Feminizing Labiaplasty — Labia Majora and Labia Minora Construction · Feminizing Urethroplasty — Urethral Shortening and Feminizing Repositioning
  7. Drain A, Jun MS, Zhao LC. "Robotic ureteral reconstruction." Urol Clin North Am. 2021;48(1):91–101. doi
    Cited on: Ureteral Stricture · Ureteroureterostomy · Boari Flap & Psoas Hitch

Other Publications Cited on WARWIKI

40 additional publications with Lee Zhao as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Zhang TR, Alford A, Zhao LC. "Summarizing the evidence for robotic-assisted bladder neck reconstruction: Systematic review of patency and incontinence outcomes." Asian J Urol. 2024;11(3):341–347. doi
    Cited on: Flaps in Genitourinary Reconstruction · Bladder Neck Contracture · Robotic Posterior Urethroplasty
  2. Kirshenbaum EJ, Zhao LC, Myers JB, et al. "Patency and incontinence rates after robotic bladder neck reconstruction for vesicourethral anastomotic stenosis and recalcitrant bladder neck contractures: The Trauma and Urologic Reconstructive Network of Surgeons experience." Urology. 2018;118:227-233. doi
    Cited on: Robotic Posterior Urethroplasty · Primary Reanastomosis for Refractory Posterior Stenosis · Transvesical Approaches to BNC and VUAS
  3. Zhao LC, Weinberg AC, Lee Z, et al. "Robotic ureteral reconstruction using buccal mucosa grafts: a multi-institutional experience." Eur Urol. 2018;73(3):419–426. doi
    Cited on: Ureteral Stricture · Augmented Anastomotic Ureteroureterostomy · Buccal Mucosa Graft Ureteroplasty
  4. Robinson IS, Cripps CN, Bluebond-Langner R, Zhao LC. "Operative management of complications following intestinal vaginoplasty: A case series and systematic review." Urology. 2023;180:105-112. doi
    Cited on: Intestinal Segments · Müllerian Anomalies & Vaginal Agenesis · Intestinal Vaginoplasty (Sigmoid / Ileum / Right Colon)
  5. Robinson IS, Blasdel G, Bluebond-Langner R, Zhao LC. "The management of intra-abdominal complications following peritoneal flap vaginoplasty." Urology. 2022;164:278–285. doi
    Cited on: Martius Flap · Peritoneal Flap · Feminizing Gender-Affirming Surgery
  6. Westerman ME, Tausch TJ, Zhao LC, et al. "Ventral Slit Scrotal Flap: A New Outpatient Surgical Option for Reconstruction of Adult Buried Penis Syndrome." Urology. 2015;85(6):1501–4. doi
    Cited on: Buried Penis Repair · Penile Primary Closure ± Z-Plasty · Reverse Bilateral Anterior Scrotal Artery Flap (Gao / Qu)
  7. Ramirez D, Zhao LC, Bagrodia A, et al. Deep lateral transurethral incisions for recurrent bladder neck contracture: promising 5-year experience using a standardized approach. Urology. 2013;82(6):1430-5. doi
    Cited on: Transurethral Bladder Neck Resection (TURBN) · Transurethral Incision of Bladder Neck Contracture (TUIBNC) · Transurethral Incision with Transverse Mucosal Realignment (TUITMR)
  8. Dy GW, Blasdel G, Shakir NA, Bluebond-Langner R, Zhao LC. Robotic peritoneal flap revision of gender-affirming vaginoplasty: a novel technique for treating neovaginal stenosis. Urology. 2021;154:308–314. doi
    Cited on: Intestinal Vaginoplasty (Sigmoid / Ileum / Right Colon) · Neovaginal Stenosis Management — Stepwise · Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty
  9. Dy GW, Jun MS, Blasdel G, Bluebond-Langner R, Zhao LC. "Outcomes of Gender Affirming Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty Using the Da Vinci Single Port Versus Xi Robotic Systems." Eur Urol. 2021;79(5):676–683. doi
    Cited on: Peritoneal Flap · Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty · Rectoneovaginal Fistula (RNVF) Repair
  10. Robinson IS, Blasdel G, Cohen O, Zhao LC, Bluebond-Langner R. Surgical outcomes following gender-affirming penile reconstruction: patient-reported outcomes from a multi-center, international survey of 129 transmasculine patients. J Sex Med. 2021;18(4):800–811. doi
    Cited on: Principles of Genital Reconstruction · Masculinizing Gender-Affirming Surgery · Vagina-Preserving Metoidioplasty
  11. Granieri MA, Zhao LC, Breyer BN, et al. Multi-institutional outcomes of minimally invasive harvest of rectal mucosa graft for anterior urethral reconstruction. J Urol. 2019;201(6):1164-1170. doi
    Cited on: Grafts in Genitourinary Reconstruction · Posterior Auricular (Postauricular) Skin Graft · Enterourethroplasty
  12. Lee J, Oh C, Brucker B, Bluebond-Langner R, Zhao LC. Impact of gender-affirming vaginoplasty on lower urinary tract function: a single-center prospective cohort study. Neurourol Urodyn. 2025;44(2):311–318. doi
    Cited on: Feminizing Gender-Affirming Surgery · Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty

Footnotes​

  1. Lee C. Zhao, MD. NYU Langone Health. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Trauma Urologic Reconstructive Network Surgeons. Turns. Accessed October 2026. ↩