{"id":347,"date":"2026-01-20T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/?p=347"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:50:40","slug":"meet-the-team-yiwen-yang-phd-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/2026\/01\/20\/meet-the-team-yiwen-yang-phd-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the team: Yiwen Yang [PhD student]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yiwen Yang is a student in the combined DPT-PhD Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University and a member of the Movement &amp; Applied Imaging Lab. Yiwen received her Bachelor of Science in Health Studies and Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees from Boston University Sargent College. Yiwen is passionate about investigating innovative movement-based interventions for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain, with a particular focus on approaches that may target the central nervous system.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of her academic and research work, Yiwen is a proud parent of her fur baby, Sumo, and enjoys traveling to explore nature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/modes\/files\/2026\/03\/Picture4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"196\" class=\" wp-image-380 alignleft\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/modes\/files\/2026\/03\/Picture6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"201\" class=\" wp-image-379 alignleft\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/modes\/files\/2026\/03\/Picture5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"198\" class=\" wp-image-378 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yiwen Yang is a student in the combined DPT-PhD Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University and a member of the Movement &amp; Applied Imaging Lab. Yiwen received her Bachelor of Science in Health Studies and Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees from Boston University Sargent College. Yiwen is passionate about investigating innovative movement-based interventions for people with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/modes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}