Karen Yuengel

Karen Yuengel serves as Principal Faculty in the Physician Assistant program at Delaware Valley University, joining in 2022 as instructional faculty and guest lecturer before transitioning to full-time status in 2023. Her clinical expertise spans orthopaedic surgery with specialized focus on hand and upper extremity, total joints, trauma, sports medicine, and pediatric orthopaedics, grounded in over a decade of active practice since certification in 2010.

Her academic foundation includes:

• Masters of Science in Physician Assistant Studies (minor in education) from Philadelphia University (2010)
• Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training from Springfield College

Yuengel's research integrates clinical orthopaedics with athletic injury rehabilitation, leveraging direct experience from roles as head high school athletic trainer, physical therapy practitioner, and Major League Soccer team staff. Her work emphasizes translational outcomes in sports-related trauma and joint procedures, connecting decades of frontline healthcare with academic instruction to advance Physician Assistant training methodologies.