Urinary Incontinence

Rebecca Rogers, MD

Dr. Rogers is currently the Vice President of the American Urogynecologic Society and has served as the Educational Committee Chair for the past four years for that organization. Other national service includes responsibilities as a standing member for the GRASS study section of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, as well as an ad hoc reviewer for grants administered through the American Urogynecologic Society foundation.

She also has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecology and the The New England Journal of Medicine. Her current areas of research include a National Institutes of Health funded study to examine postpartum pelvic floor changes in healthy women following childbirth, currently in its second year of funding. Additionally, Dr. Rogers has received numerous awards and honors, including the Merit of Distinction and Continence Care Champion from the National Association for Continence. She co-authored a lay book, Regaining Bladder Control: What Every Woman Needs to Know, written to alleviate women’s embarrassment about incontinence.

Previously, Dr. Rogers worked in the Peace Corps as chairperson of the Mathematics Department at the Etimphisini Secondary School in Swaziland, Africa.

She received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in Boston. She completed her internship, residency and a fellowship in urogynecology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.