Wen Yau Jennie Yen (Jennie)
Jennie received her physical therapy degree from New York University and her
Bachelor of Science in Spanish Language and Literature from Pennsylvania State
University. She has extensive clinical experience in the treatment of orthopedic and
sports-related hand and upper extremity injuries. Jennie is a Certified Hand Therapist
(CHT) and a Certified Lymphedema Therapist (CLT). She is a Certified Kinesio Taping
Practitioner (CKTP) and holds a Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) Level 1 and
Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) certification.
She completed her Hand Therapy Fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS),
and she worked at the Hand & Upper Extremity and Orthopedic Physical Therapy
Center, as well as the HSS affiliated physical therapy center at Goldman Sachs. In
recent years, Jennie developed the Hand Therapy Program and the Post-op Breast Care
program at the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (NISMAT)
at Northwell Health in New York City.
Jennie has been involved in physical therapy education, teaching physical therapy
doctoral students at New York University, and she taught at Hunter College and
Columbia University. She was a faculty member of the Hand Therapy Fellowship and
the Orthopedic PT Residency program at HSS. She has presented at national
conferences for the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and American
Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) on Elbow Posterolateral Rotatory Instability and
Ulnar-sided Wrist Pathology. In addition to academia, Jennie was also heavily involved
in professional service. She served as a member of ASHT’s Education Division,
Nominating Chair and Annual Meeting Committee.
In her spare time, Jennie enjoys sharing her skills through service. She served as a
volunteer medical staff in the Athletes’ Village at the 2016 Rio Olympics and at the AVP
Beach Volleyball Pro Tour at Coney Island. She also participated in The Touching
Hands Project and traveled to Honduras with the American Society for Surgery of the
Hand, to provide care to adults and children with limited access to healthcare.