SPOTLIGHT GALLERY

Gender-affirming surgery has changed significantly over the past decade. What was once a small, highly specialized field has grown into a multidisciplinary area of medicine focused on precision, patient choice, and long-term outcomes. Recent advances are not about reinventing these procedures from scratch, but about refining how they are done and making them safer, more personalized, and more accessible. One of the biggest shifts has been the introduction of robotic-assisted

Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, or TTTS, is one of the most dangerous complications that can happen in identical twin pregnancies when both babies share a single placenta. In these pregnancies, the twins are connected by placental blood vessels. Sometimes, those connections allow blood to flow unevenly from one twin to the other. One baby ends up doing most of the donating, while the other receives more blood than their body can handle. Without proper treatment, this imbal

In May of 2025, a grand surgical innovation was made with the creation of a procedure designed to remove a tumor at the junction of the skull base & upper spinal cord. More colloquially noted as a “third eye” tumor removal procedure, a transorbital endoscopic spinal tumor removal is a new neurosurgical procedure that allows for a tumor between the skull base and a portion of the spinal cord to be removed. With this procedure, surgeons hoped to remove tissue creating pressure