Rebecca Clearman, M.D.
Executive Director
Biography (pdf)
Philosophy (pdf)
Biography
Dr. Clearman specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation, an unusual medical field that focuses on illness from the patient’s perspective. An experienced clinician and medical director of several rehabilitation units, she has extensive experience in the management of catastrophic illness. Dr. Clearman is expert in the rehabilitative care of patients with cancer, spinal cord and brain injuries, neurologic diseases, burns, polytrauma, and orthopedic injury.
During her twenty years in academic medicine, Dr. Clearman served as Associate Director of Rehabilitation at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Medical Director of Outpatient Services for The Institute of Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR), Medical Director of Hermann Hospital Rehabilitation Program, and Program Director at TIRR Hospital. She has served as personal physician to the Royal House of Saudi Arabia.
She is a faculty member at three medical schools and has received awards and honors from both the medical and lay communities, from the Alliance Clinical Achievement Award for her work with cancer patients to the Award for Excellence in Community Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a Fellow of the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports and Occupational Rehabilitation.
Dr. Clearman practices patient-centered medicine, caring about her patients as she cares for them. She works tirelessly to ensure that each patient receives meticulous attention to every detail of his or her care, comfort, safety, and well-being.
Practice Philosophy
My goal is to provide my patients the highest level of medical expertise, confidentiality, and respect in an unhurried and supportive atmosphere. I believe that patient and physician must collaborate to achieve optimal health for the patient, identifying causes of pain, illness, and dysfunction and developing a treatment plan that is workable in the context of the patient’s life.
I am trained in high tech American medicine and am always interested in new medical developments. As a member of the faculties of Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Cornell Weill Medical College in the Texas Medical Center, I have both the opportunity and the responsibility for staying on the leading edge of Western medicine. I do not believe, however, that this type of medicine always has the answers to every problem. While I will always utilize everything American medicine has to offer, I continue to study and use the best techniques of acupuncture, manual medicine, and complementary therapies.
A friend described PPG as going “back to the future of medicine” because we practice an old-fashioned house call kind of medicine. Ideal medical care demands meticulous attention to every detail of the patient’s well-being, and PPG’s team is able to personalize care according to the needs and life situation of each patient. Nothing in my medical career has been more satisfying than establishing Personal Physician Group LLP a decade ago and watching it grow.
