Massachusetts General Hospital is making history today with the announcement of the nation’s first genitourinary reconstructive (penile) transplant. The result ...of more than three years of research, a team of 30 physicians, anesthesiologists, nurses, fellows and residents, worked to surgically graft the vascular and nerve structures. Patient Thomas Manning, 64, who had penile cancer that necessitated removal of his penis to cure the cancer, received the donation in early May.