Jess Ting - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | Mount Sinai - New York
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Jess Ting, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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About Me

Dr. Jess Ting is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York.

A native New Yorker, Dr. Ting studied music at the Juilliard School before switching careers to medicine. He attended the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and graduated first in his medical school class. This was followed by general surgery training at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, plastic surgery training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a hand/microsurgery fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Dr. Ting led Mount Sinai’s first surgical genital reassignment surgery for the transgender population -- a male-to-female operation called vaginoplasty. The procedure was completed in March 2016 with other procedures quickly following, including: metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, facial feminization surgery and chest surgery. Most recently, Dr. Ting pioneered a new approach to vaginoplasty, called the Peritoneum Vaginoplasty, which uses one's own peritoneum lining to create a new vagina with similar properties to a cis-vagina.

With these groundbreaking surgeries, Mount Sinai became the first institution in New York City to offer genital reassignment surgery. To further provide comprehensive care to this community, Mount Sinai established the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS) - one of the first programs in the United States to offer broad, multispecialty transgender care in one location. To date, Dr. Ting’s team has performed more than 2,000 operations, making Mount Sinai not only one of the first institutions in the country to offer transgender surgeries, but now one of the busiest.

Dr. Ting performs research in transgender health and his clinical practice is limited to the surgical care of the transgender/gender non-conforming community, as well as victims of female genital mutilation.

In The News

Dr. Ting's work in the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery has been widely covered in the press. See below for a selection of articles:

Dr. Ting discusses Breast Reconstruction surgery in The Daily News feature The Daily Check Up. View the PDF.

Watch how Mount Sinai experts like Dr. Ting are transforming lives through ground-breaking surgical work in uncharted operations.

Dr. Ting performs a live metoidioplasty at The Mount Sinai Hospital and discusses the surgical expertise of fellow Mount Sinai doctor.

See how Dr. Ting is changing young lives like Emily’s, acting as the surgical director of Mount Sinai’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.

Featured in the Gothamist, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter, Dr. Ting is the central figure in a documentary that highlights the trans experience and how he and his team at Mount Sinai are committed to enhancing lives through ground-breaking surgery and commitment.

Dr. Jess Ting has dedicated his career to gender reassignment. He discusses long waiting lists for surgeries, fears in the community, and more.

Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Surgery, Plastic Surgery
Hospital Affiliations
  • Mount Sinai Morningside
  • Mount Sinai Beth Israel
  • The Derfner Foundation Ambulatory Surgery Center
  • Mount Sinai Brooklyn
  • Mount Sinai Queens
  • The Mount Sinai Hospital
  • New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
  • Mount Sinai West

Clinical Focus

Video

Education

MD, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Residency, Surgery (General Surgery)

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Residency, Plastic Surgery

University of Pittsburgh

Fellowship, Orthopaedic Surgery, Hand Surgery

Hospital for Special Surgery

Certifications

American Board of Plastic Surgery

Awards

2010

America's Top Doctors - 9th Edition

Castle Connolly

2009

Best Doctors

New York Magazine

2009

America's Top Doctors for Cancer

Castle Connolly

2009

New York Super Doctors

2008

Top Doctors New York Metro Area

Castle Connolly

2008

New York Magazine

Top Doctors

2004

Attending of the Year Award, Mount Sinai Plastic Surgery

The Mount Sinai Medical Center

2004

Teacher of the Year Award, Honorary Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine

The Mount Sinai Medical Center

2001

Philip D. Wilson Award for Excellence in Orthopedic Surgery Research

Hospital for Special Surgery, NY

2001

Annual Residents Night, Third Prize

New York Society for Surgery of the Hand

2000

Best Overall Presentation

Ohio Valley Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

1995

Robert F. Loeb Award for the graudating medical student who has shown the greatest promise for excellence in clinical medicine

1995

Janeway Prise for the graduating medical student with the highest academics

Research

Spike Broadening in the Aplysia R20 Cell

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Publications

Publications:13
Selected Publications

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Industry Relationships

Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.

Dr. Ting has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.

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