Dr. Munro was born in Ontario, Canada, and is an internationally known Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Director of Gynecologic Services at Kaiser Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center. His undergraduate and medical school training were at the University of Western Ontario (Western University), in London, Ontario Canada, and his specialty training in Gynecology and Obstetrics was received at Western University and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. After a decade on the faculty at the University of British Columbia, Dr Munro moved to the University of California, Los Angeles (“UCLA”) in 1991.

Dr. Munro takes care of gynecologic patients, but also teaches undergraduate and graduate trainees and performs clinical research.  His patient care, clinical teaching and research interests are oriented to the minimally invasive approaches to gynecological disorders with particular interests in the problem of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) including investigation, medical and procedural interventions.

He is co-chair of the FIGO Menstrual Disorders Committee that has been responsible for the development and publication of the FIGO Nomenclature and Classification Systems for causes of abnormal bleeding in the reproductive years that has been created to facilitate the design and interpretation of related clinical trials.  He is also the study chair of STOP-DUB, a US federally funded multicenter randomized clinical trial comparing hysterectomy to endometrial ablation that, to date is the largest of its kind. He has published more than 100 papers, 26 chapters, and four books including Abnormal Uterine Bleeding, released by Cambridge University Press in 2010. Dr Munro is also a contributing editor for the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, an Editor for the Journal of Midlife Women’s Health, and a reviewer for numerous other peer-reviewed specialty journals.

He has served the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL) as a member of the Board of Trustees (2000-2002) and has been a featured teacher and lecturer in Asia, Australia, South America, Europe, and Africa, as well as in Canada and the United States. He hopes that this work, designed for patients, will assist both women and their physicians with understanding the basis behind both normal periods and abnormal uterine bleeding in a way that will both achieve an accurate diagnosis, and effective options for treatment. This site also contains a link to an accompanying web-book for health care providers, also written by Dr Munro that can be shared with your provider.