*sighs* No, this was almost certainly coined by early members of the fetish community. Paraphilia saw a building interest in online formats around the time of the advent of Vor-Com, in the late 90s, and as they formed up they looked for things to call themselves. Most paraphilia took on names in keeping with the traditional -philia suffix format and found an appropriate latin terminology. It never really required academic discourse on the topic.
The only academic studies on the topic (generally maligned locally because they take the attitude that it is a paraphilia associated with sadomasochism, and those present here frequently don't like the official association of any paraphilia as being by nature not necessarily healthy) include the following:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24057211 - 2014, a University of New England publication
"Defining Sex" - Charles River Media's "Sex in Video Games" from 2006
An article out of "Wave Magizine" in 2002.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... l-pleasure - A psychiatrist's blog on the subject with several links to articles that have made brief mention of the topic, none prior to 2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorarephilia contains links to several of the academic articles, many of them the same ones. Again. Nothing before 2000.
Now, in principle? I despise using wikipedia for any sort of in-depth analyis. It's like using the Encyclopedia Brittanica and thinking you know everything important on a topic (And for those of you who have no clue what that is, I shake my fist at you from my porch and shout "You damned kids with your ipods!"). However, because this question gets asked at least once a year I've had reason to go back and look over and over again for something, anything on the fetish of devouring someone else not explicitly associated with cannibalistic fetishization as a unified study of paraphilia, and I've never successfully found one. Paraphilia existed prior to the 90s, obviously, but only a few were really documented or looked into with any sort of depth. The really well known ones like necrophilia, copraphilia or the like received coverage, scientific study in the decades or even centuries prior depending on how well known they were. Individualized fetishism and paraphilia of the scale that many of us are more familiar with in the current era really doesn't see its advent until the 80s and 90s, again, through the proliferation of pop culture art, quick, mass-produced artistic fetish material and easy dissemination of it through online media.
So, no. I honestly don't think "Vore" as a term has anything to do with the medical community. Were they ok with using it? Sure, because it suits their normal nomenclature just fine and was in common parlance by the time that they even began to look at the topic in the mid 2000s. But they barely even acknowledge the existence as a body of this paraphilia. They didn't bother to coin the term. This was a community coined term, almost definitely.
Now, that said? I don't think it was Vor-Com's creator. I don't know who it was, but given that Omega's Club, the FoodChain and Vor-Com all existed at around the time, and the internet was building steam right around the mid 1990s, there's a reasonable chance that early artists came up with the term. They may have been one of the earliest to coin it along with artists like Strega (who's been around for an eternity and a half by our standards), but I'm not sure it was actually them specifically.
Honestly, though, if you want personal reflections on this topic? You might talk with a couple of the really old salts of this community who were explicitly active 'within' the community when it came into existence. I was a few years late, and always ancilliary to the actual community until closer to 2006, so my awareness of its precise origins is somewhat fuzzy.