American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Board eligible in Pain Medicine (subspecialty examination pending).
Physician profile
Peter Vu, MD
Board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and board eligible in pain medicine. Interventional pain fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, where he served as chief fellow. A Houston native and former UTHealth Houston PM&R chief resident with a restorative, function-first approach.
About Peter VuBoard certification Pain fellowship Rehabilitation training Medical school honors Clinical focus
Harvard-affiliated interventional pain training, rooted in Houston.
Interventional Pain Medicine fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School (2025–2026), selected as chief fellow.
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation residency at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston (2021–2025), academic chief resident. A physiatry background keeps the focus on restoring movement, sleep, work and daily function.
MD from Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine (2021), Gold Humanism Honor Society; BS in Biomedical Sciences, summa cum laude, University of Houston.
Neuromodulation (spinal cord, peripheral nerve and dorsal root ganglion stimulation), image-guided spine injections, radiofrequency ablation, complex nerve pain, post-amputation and phantom limb pain, and pain related to cancer treatment.
Research and recognition
A published researcher in neuromodulation and advanced pain therapies.
Dr. Vu has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and presented dozens of times at national meetings on spinal cord, peripheral nerve and dorsal root ganglion stimulation and difficult nerve-pain conditions. That work informs a careful, evidence-based approach to when an advanced therapy is — and is not — the right next step.
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Manchikanti Research Grant (2024); Oregon Health & Science University Exploratory Research Grant (2023).
Racz-Raj Pain Medicine Top 5 Oral Presentation, Texas Pain Society Annual Meeting (2023); second place, William H. Donovan Critical Review of the Literature.
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, North American Neuromodulation Society, Texas Pain Society, American Academy of Pain Medicine, North American Spine Society, ASRA Pain Medicine, AAPM&R.
Volunteer with the Houston Emergency Opioid Engagement System (HEROES) and the Rehabilitation Services Volunteer Project; leads health education seminars in Vietnamese with the Vietnamese Culture & Science Association. Speaks English and Vietnamese.
Next step
Request an appointment with Peter Vu.
Call (832) 916-2075 or request online; ask for the physician by name and the team will match you to the next available office.