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Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, aka NancyMD, is a board-certified, sports fellowship-trained orthopaedicsurgeon in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She is also an avid podcaster, writer andspeaker that is passionate about helping others open doors to be more and do more in theirlives, as a creator and curator of engaging written, video and live content.
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Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, also known as NancyMD, is an orthopaedic surgeon, speaker, podcasthost, writer and mom.
Nancy is passionate about sharing her path to finding her inner renaissance woman with others,in particular the next generation of future women leaders. She is producer and host of podcastThe 6% with NancyMD, and on the podcast, shares the inspiring stories of women thriving intraditionally male-dominated fields.
As a mentor and champion for equity and diversity, she brings awareness to this throughspeaking engagements and an active online presence, with a following of over 25k on socialmedia platforms. She has been a featured contributor on KevinMD.com, Women’s HealthConversations, among multiple other online and traditional media outlets.
Dr. Yen Shipley is an unabashed late-bloomer. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. inPsychology. She took a non-traditional path to medicine, first working in the snowboardingindustry and event planning, before finding her passion in medicine. In medical school, despitebeing told “girls don’t do ortho”, entered internship and residency in orthopaedic surgeryfollowed by a sports medicine and arthroscopy fellowship. She is now in private practice inPortland, Oregon and enjoys caring for athletes of all levels, and is a team physician for the U.S.Ski and Snowboard Team.
In her free time, Dr. Yen Shipley enjoys spending time with her son and husband,snowboarding, stand up paddleboarding, playing tennis, and enjoying the great outdoors andthe great food in her adopted hometown of Portland.