Faculty Bio Detail
Nancy Chee - OTR/L, CHT
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Occupational Therapy
Email: NChee@samuelmerritt.edu
Program:Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT)
Telephone: 510-869-8925
Address: 450-30th Street,
Oakland - CA 94609
Graduated in 1982 from Tufts University - Boston School of Occupational Therapy. Having worked as an OT in areas of adult day health, home health, acute rehabilitation and hand therapy. Currently at California Pacific Medical Center since 1991 in the Hand Therapy Department working with patient with acute and chronic hand injuries. Through career, have presented lectures/presentations for national, state and local organizations. Specific areas of interest include acute hand trauma and splinting. Volunteer work through non profit organization, Interplast as a hand therapist working in developing countries to bring medical services to patients and teaching to local MDs in the area of post surgery management and hand therapy treatment.
Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University:
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
Recipient of the Paul Brand Award of Professional Excellence (2005) from American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT)
Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships:
Publications and Presentations:
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Occupational Therapy
Email: NChee@samuelmerritt.edu
Program:Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT)
Telephone: 510-869-8925
Address: 450-30th Street,
Oakland - CA 94609
Graduated in 1982 from Tufts University - Boston School of Occupational Therapy. Having worked as an OT in areas of adult day health, home health, acute rehabilitation and hand therapy. Currently at California Pacific Medical Center since 1991 in the Hand Therapy Department working with patient with acute and chronic hand injuries. Through career, have presented lectures/presentations for national, state and local organizations. Specific areas of interest include acute hand trauma and splinting. Volunteer work through non profit organization, Interplast as a hand therapist working in developing countries to bring medical services to patients and teaching to local MDs in the area of post surgery management and hand therapy treatment.
Courses Taught at Samuel Merritt University:
OT627 - Kinesiology - 2006-2008
OT616 - Therapuetic Media - 2003-2004
Hand Therapy Certificate Program - 2005
Guest Lecturer - Advanced Techniques for Dynamic Splinting- 1999-2002
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
Recipient of the Paul Brand Award of Professional Excellence (2005) from American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT)
Professional and Community Service and Professional Memberships:
Professional membership:
American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT),
Occupational Therapy Association of California (OTAC),
Northern
California Hand Special Interest Group (NCHSIG)
Community Service:
Volunteer Hand Therapist for Interplast, working in
developing countries including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Bolivia
and Brazil.
Book Reviewer for Elsevier Publishers (2003-2005)
Publications and Presentations:
Presentations: American Society of Hand Therapist (ASHT) - Comprehensice
Survey of Hand Therapy - lectures presentations - "Therapist Management
of Mutillating Hand Injuries" (1995, 1996, 1997, 2002), "Rehabiliation
of the Burned Hand" (1996, 1997), "Soft Tissue Relationshops and
Mechanics
in the UE" (1996, 1997)
ASHT-CA Chapter and Northen California Hand Special Interest Group
(NCHSIG) - "Therapist's Management of Thumb Replantation" (1992),
"Therapist Management of Mutilating Hand Injuries "(1998-2004),
"Principles of Splinting" (2004), "Therapist's Management of Skin
Grafts and Flaps" (2007)
Occupational Therapy Association of California (OTAC) - "Another Look at
Tendons" - (2006)
Hand and Wrist Rehabilitation Symposium - "Static and Dynamic Splinting
Techniques" (2007)
Publications: Contributing author for chapter on "Therapist's
Management of Mutilating Hand Injuries" for ASHT-Hand Therapy
Certification Study Module (2002)