Dr. Ellie Z. Ley

Dr. Zara Ley is an accomplished and well recognized plastic surgeon specializing in gender affirming surgery. She is proud to serve her community by offering comprehensive gender surgical services through the Gender Confirmation Center in San Francisco.Dr. Ley completed medical school at New York Medical College after immigrating to the US from Mexico. She completed full general surgery residency at the University of Arizona then finished plastic surgery subspecialty degrees that include craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, hand surgery and microsurgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and a plastic surgery fellowship at the University of Utah. After two years of academic surgery where she shared her knowledge and experience with medical students, residents, and fellows, she moved back to Arizona. There she met internationally renowned gender surgeon Dr. Toby Meltzer who felt that her vast experience and skill set would make her an ideal surgeon to take under his wing and teach her the art of gender surgery. These were her defining and formative years as a gender surgeon where she discovered that serving her community in this privileged and blessed position would become ever fulfilling and deeply satisfying.Dr. Ley is passionate and devoted to helping transmasculine, transfeminine, and nonbinary persons to reach their goal of aligning their bodies with their genuine sense of self and identity. She also hopes to serve as a positive role model to not only those in the LGBTQ+ community as a transgender professional but also by representing gender, ethnic, and immigrant inclusivity and diversity in the medical field.

Dr. Ley is currently accepting new patients.