Dr. Georgine Lamvu, MD

Dr. Georgine Lamvu, MD received her undergraduate and medical degrees (MD) from Duke University and she completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She received her Masters of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology and completed a fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopy and Pelvic Pain at UNC in 2003.  During this time, she served as a fellow scholar in the NIH T-32 Training in Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Program, as a UNC Simmons Minority fellow and as an NIH Women’s Reproductive Health Research scholar. 

Dr. Lamvu began her clinical practice at UNC Healthcare Hospitals as an Assistant Professor and completed an NICHD Triangle Clinical Research Fellowship in Reproductive Health.  Her clinical practice and research focused on gynecologic care of women with chronic pelvic pain disorders including vulvodynia.   She served as Director of the National Vulvodynia Registry from 2009-2016.  She is also Past President and current Chairman of the Board for the International Pelvic Pain Society.  She is Board Certified in Ob-Gyn by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and she is a Certified Pain Educator (CPE) by the American Society of Pain Educators. 

Currently, she is a Gynecologic Surgeon, and a Pelvic Pain Specialist who maintains an active educational role as Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Central Florida and Director of the Fellowship in Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Orlando VA Medical Center. Her research and publications encompass a variety of study designs including randomized clinical trials focusing on vulvodynia, chronic pelvic pain, post-operative pain and other surgical outcomes in women living with chronic pain.

A listing of her peer-reviewed publications is provided below, some of which can be accessed through https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=lamvu