About
Four decades of compassionate, expert care
Rebecca G. Stephenson, PT, DPT, MS, CLT, PWCS, is a Board-Certified Pelvic & Women's Health Clinical Specialist treating all genders. Her care blends deep clinical expertise with a personal, compassionate approach.
What is a Board-Certified PWCS?
A Pelvic & Women's Health Clinical Specialist holds the highest board certification in pelvic and women's health — earned through thousands of supervised clinical hours and a rigorous national exam. Only a small percentage of physical therapists achieve it.
Professional Timeline
Four distinctions, one career
Clinician, author, advocate, educator — four strands of a single career, each a colour on one shared timeline. Each circle is sized by its impact on women’s health worldwide; where they overlap, two distinctions are being held at once.
- Cliniciansince the 1980s
- Author & Scholarsince 1990
- Advocatesince 1998
- Educatorsince 2002
- 1980s
The clinical foundation
Doctorate at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, then Urogynecology Coordinator at Brigham & Women’s and clinical specialist in pelvic health at Mass General — building women’s-health PT programs at two world-class hospitals.
Clinician - 1990
First textbook — Obstetric & Gynecological Care in Physical Therapy
Co-authored with Linda J. O’Connor (SLACK Inc.), with a second edition in 2000. An early text that helped define the field, and where her published scholarship begins.
Author & Scholar - 1998
The Elizabeth Noble Award
Honored by the APTA Section on Women’s Health for outstanding vision and service — advocacy for the field itself begins.
Advocate - 2002
Barbara Adams Fellow
Recognized by the MGH Institute of Health Professions for leadership and the potential to contribute as a clinical scholar.
Educator - 2012
Partners in Excellence — twice in one year
At Brigham & Women’s: for building and leading the breast-oncology care team, and for a high-risk pregnancy education video used on the inpatient unit.
Clinician - 2013
Lucy Blair Service Award
One of the American Physical Therapy Association’s most distinguished honors, for sustained, exceptional service to the profession.
Advocate - 2013
Conference scholarship — IOPTWH & IPTOP, Boston
Proceedings published in GeriNotes; a marker of her international women’s-health leadership.
Author & Scholar - 2015
Cancer-survivorship research
Co-author of a study on physical impairments and PT utilization among cancer survivors of Puerto Rican descent (Journal of Oncology Navigation & Survivorship).
Author & Scholar - 2017
Section on Women’s Health Service Award
For ongoing commitment and years of volunteer service to the Section on Women’s Health.
Advocate - 2018
Distinguished Alumni Award
Named a distinguished graduate of the MGH Institute of Health Professions — where she now teaches as adjunct faculty.
Educator - 2020–22
A burst of peer-reviewed research
Four journal publications in three years: the international Women’s & Pelvic Health PT practice survey (JWHPT, 2020); the Advanced Topics in Pregnancy & Postpartum PT lab manual (2020); online-EdD pedagogy (Impacting Education, 2021); and allied-health roles in rural Australia (J. Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2022) — alongside ongoing service as a JWHPT/JWPHPT peer reviewer.
Author & Scholar - 2025
The Physical Therapists’ Guide to Pelvic, Perinatal & Reproductive Health
Lead author and editor (Routledge) — the field’s comprehensive clinical text, distilling a career of practice, advocacy, and teaching.
Author & Scholar
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