Shannon Buzard

Shannon Buzard started her professional life as a paleoecologist and did time at a major metropolitan museum as well as working in oil and gas exploration in the Rocky Mountains. She now is employed as a semiconductor device physicist and engineer for a major semiconductor manufacturerÕs research and development facility in the Seattle metropolitan area where she successfully transitioned in place. Shannon is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and The Society of Women Engineers.

Shannon, the granddaughter of a transsexual female, identifies as a woman who happened to have been born transsexual and is active in advocating for transsexual and transgender rights in both the political arena and within the hierarchy of her church, where she leads a group that does outreach and advocates for LGBTIQ inclusion and participation.

Shannon presents:

Surgical Options in Thailand

To many in the transgendered and transsexual communities, the cost of surgery is a serious impediment to the realization of their goals for their own physical reality. While it is widely known that there are surgical options out of the country, relatively few have detailed knowledge of what is required other than an airplane ticket, and what to expect once getting there. This workshop is presented by a post-op with first hand knowledge of the doctors, hospitals, and logistics of everything from passports to the hospitals and surgeons. This workshop covers general knowledge about traveling abroad as what is known as medical tourist including medical visas, length of stay, surgeons and the difference in their offerings, hospital quality, and the difficulties and how to overcome them in having medical procedures done in a country where English is not the native language. It also covers specific information about having surgical procedures in Thailand with several of the leading plastic and reconstructive surgeons practicing currently in the Bangkok metropolitan area with specific advice on how to maximize your dollars, minimize your risk, and achieve surgical results that otherwise you thought you might not be able to afford for years to come. This workshop takes the mystery out of travel internationally for surgery and shows how easy, ordinary, and inexpensive it can be to get the procedures that are not insured here done for a reasonable cost, while simultaneously enjoying exposure to a new and different culture on the other side of the planet.