Dr. Stephenson is Adjunct Professor, UBC Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.  Dr. Stephenson is also Professor and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago.

Dr. Mary Stephenson is internationally renowned for her clinical and research expertise in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss. Her extensive training in reproductive immunology and genetics has facilitated her ability to link her clinical work with the laboratory.

In 2010, Dr. Stephenson co-authored the textbook, Early Pregnancy, which embraces a multidisciplinary approach to the evaluation and management of recurrent pregnancy loss. She is featured in the popular book by Jon Cohen, Coming to Term: Uncovering the Truth about Miscarriage.

Dr. Stephenson was the founding Chair of the Early Pregnancy Special Interest Group of ASRM. She is an Associate Editor for Human Reproduction and is presently the Associate Editor for Human Reproduction Update and is on the Editorial Board for Fertility & Sterility.

Dr. Stephenson has a longstanding research collaboration with Dr. Evica Rajcan-Separovic, a geneticist at the University of British Columbia, to identify submicroscopic chromosomal imbalances in miscarriages which may lead to the discovery of “miscarriage genes.”

Research interests are genetics of miscarriage, pregnancy outcomes in translocation carriers, subclinical hypothyroidism and miscarriage, obesity and recurrent early pregnancy loss, endometrial assessment, antiphospholipid syndrome; mechanisms and therapeutic intervention, outcome and decision analyses, and randomized trials to assess therapies.