Joanna Stephens

Dr. Joanna Stephens received her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the College of William and Mary in 2009. She developed an interest in global health and safe maternal and newborn care during her undergraduate studies, which led her to a Rotary Scholarship in Morocco and a Fulbright Fellowship to the Côte d’Ivoire in 2009-2011. She then attended the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where she received her MD in 2016.

She completed a residency in Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania and then a Maternal Child Health FMOB Fellowship at the University of Rochester in New York. She worked as clinical faculty at the Sea Mar Marysville Family Medicine Residency Program in Washington State, where she worked as director of the FMOB Surgical Fellowship and taught obstetric ultrasound to residents and fellows. She received the OB Teaching Award for the program in 2022 and 2023. She is currently working as an FMOB hospitalist for Community Health Centers of Snohomish County at Providence Regional Medical Center in Washington.

In her spare time, she is a faculty member of the University of Washington Asylum Clinic, assisting asylum-seekers with pro bono medical evaluations and teaching asylum medicine to medical students. She is a member of the Washington State Advisory Committee on FGM/C Prevention and Response. She remains committed to global women’s health and has previously trained and volunteered in South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, and Guatemala.