Dr. Lara Burrows, Maryland, Akron

Dr. Lara Burrows

Education: Dartmouth College


Contact: 

Summa Physicians-Gynecology
75 Arch St Suite Suite 102
Akron, OH 44304
(330) 762-0954 (Office)

Center For Vulvovaginal Dis
3 Washington NW Cir Suite 205
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 887-0568 (Office)


Lara BurrowsLara J. Burrows, MD, MSc, is the Medical Director of the Center for Sexual Health in Akron, Ohio and the Associate Director of the Center for Vulvovaginal Disorders in Washington DC. She completed her undergraduate education at New York University where she earned a degree in psychology. She graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and then completed her residency in Gynecology and Obstetrics at The John Hopkins Hospital. She continued her post-graduate training at New York University and the University of Pittsburgh where she completed a fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery as well as an NIH-sponsored Master's degree in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis. Dr. Burrows is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts. She is the senior associate editor for the textbook Female Sexual Pain Disorders: Evaluation and Management. In addition, she is the co-author of 101 Questions about Vulvar Disease.  (http://www.nva.org)

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Dr. Lara Burrows grew up in Connecticut. She completed her undergraduate degree at New York University where she earned a degree in psychology; research that she performed as an undergraduate was featured prominently in Malcolm Gladwell's best selling book Blink. She graduated from the Dartmouth School of Medicine and then completed her Ob/Gyn residency at the John Hopkins Hospital. She continued her post-graduate training at NYU and the University of Pittsburgh where she completed a fellowship in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery. She also obtained a Master's in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis.

  Dr. Burrows is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts and is regarded as an expert in the evaluation and treatment in female pelvic floor disorders, and interstitial cystitis. She is the senior associate editor for the textbook Female Sexual Pain Disorders: Evaluation and Management. In addition, she is the co-author of 101 Questions about Vulvar Disease that was be published in 2009.

 Her husband is a plastic surgeon who specializes in hand and breast surgery. She has a three-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter. In her spare time, she enjoys decorative furniture painting and restoring 17th and 18th century French and Italian furniture.   (http://www.cvvd.org)