Lisa I am also a veteran patient of Dr. Bauer and Gorfine. My original pouch was done in 1992 by Gelernt and Gorfine. After Gelernt died in 1996, I saw Dr. Gorfine for J pouch revision surgeries in 1998 and 2000 and Dr. Bauer also saw me in the follow ups.
To answer your question, the big gun J pouch surgeon in CT is Dr. Vikram Reddy at Yale. My GI is Dr. Myron Brand of Guilford, CT and although I love him and think he is a great doctor and person, he is around 70 and one wonders when he will retire. That being said he seems like a workaholic and maybe he will work until he drops, like me. Who knows when that will be- Dr. Gelernt died of a massive heart attack at age 60. But Dr. Brand is very experienced with pouches and I have had a good run with him.
What I have learned is that doctors can die on you, move on you, and retire on you, and there usually isn't a darn thing you can do about any of the 3.