Rate My Professor Rebekah Das

Dr Rebekah Das serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Allied Health and Human Performance, College of Health, at Adelaide University. Previously, she held the position of Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia, contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy education since 2001. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Physiotherapy with Honors from the University of South Australia, completed between 1991 and 1994, a qualification in Education from Queensland University of Technology from 2004 to 2005, and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of South Australia from 2010 to 2015.

Dr Das's research focuses on overactive bladder, urinary urgency, pelvic organ prolapse, pessary management, behavioral therapy, mindfulness-informed interventions, continence physiotherapy, and urinary sensation assessment. Her key publications include "A Short History of Urgency: Implications for Biopsychosocial Assessment and Conservative Treatment of Overactive Bladder" (2025), "Physiotherapy pessary providers in Australia: results of a multidisciplinary survey of practice" (2025), "Pessary management practices for pelvic organ prolapse among Australian health care practitioners: a cross-sectional study" (2023), "Feasibility and Effectiveness of an Interprofessional Mindfulness-Informed Group-Based Intervention for Treatment of Overactive Bladder: A Pilot Study" (2021), "Cognitive components of behavioral therapy for overactive bladder: a systematic review" (2021), "Assessing multiple dimensions of urgency sensation: The University of South Australia Urinary Sensation Assessment (USA²)" (2016), "Bladders behaving badly; a focus on dysfunctional sensation" (2016), and "Dimensions of Sensation Assessed in Urinary Urgency: A Systematic Review" (2013). These works have collectively earned 93 citations, demonstrating impact in pelvic health.

In teaching, Dr Das was part of the Conservative Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Teaching and Coordination Team at the University of South Australia, which received the 2024 AAUT Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for developing an innovative Professional Certificate program training postgraduate physiotherapy students in conservative management and pessary care for pelvic organ prolapse.