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Helena Silman-Cohen

Senior Physical Therapist, Lead (Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center)

Memorial Sloan Kettering physical therapist Helena Silman-Cohen

I am a senior physical therapist with special training in lymphedema therapy. I graduated from Tel Aviv University and joined Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2011, working with patients at the Breast and Imaging Center. I provide lymphedema therapy to breast cancer patients and treat mostly upper extremities and trunk lymphedema.

Languages Spoken

English; Hebrew

Certifications

Lymphedema therapy certification, Klose Norton school and Foldi college at the Foldi clinic, special clinic for lymphology, Hinterzarten, Germany, 06/2003
LANA (Lymphology Association of North America) certification, 05/2011

Degrees and Licensures

Licensed physical therapist