Dr. Fay Horak

Dr. Fay B. Horak, Ph.D., PT, the Scientific Advisor for the Balance Disorders Laboratory, is the Jay Nutt MD-Endowed Professor of Neurology and Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University. She is also Chief Scientific Officer at APDM Wearable Technology, a company that provides precision movement technology for clinical trials. She is a physical therapist and neuroscientist who is known for her research on the neurophysiology of balance disorders and their rehabilitation. She received a B.S. in Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. in Neurophysiology from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Washington. She has received many national awards from the American Physical Therapy Association and is the first physical therapist to receive a prestigious MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health for over 30 years of continuous funding. She has also patented several new technologies for the measurement and rehabilitation of balance disorders and helped start a company, APDM, that develops synchronized, wearable sensors to quantify posture and gait. She was the first elected President of the International Society of Posture and Gait Research. She greatly expanded the organization’s membership and helped develop its charter and organize meetings. She holds one of the most cited articles over the last 125 years by the American Physiological Society.