008 - Dr. Rebecca Breslow

Coaching Runners Podcast

Dr. Rebecca Breslow is a Sports Medicine physician in Boston, Massachusetts. She has specific interests in running and road race medicine, non-operative treatment of musculoskeletal injuries, sports injury prevention, fitness and exercise.

A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Breslow did her medical training at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. An internist by training, she joined the faculty of Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2010.

Dr. Breslow is a life-long runner, and successfully competed on the local and regional Masters road racing circuit in the Boston area. She subsequently became a USA Track & Field coach and a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. In 2014, she founded Run Strong Studio, a training facility in Brookline, Massachusetts, and ultimately completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Breslow volunteers on the Sports Medicine and Science Committee and National Team Medical Staff of USA Track & Field, and is a volunteer physician for many local road races and track and field events. She currently practices in the Sports Medicine Division of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.