Dr. Fay Horak PhD, PT, Scientific Advisor for the Balance Disorders Laboratory, is the Jay Nutt MD Endowed Professor of Neurology and Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience & 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. Dr. Horak is a physical therapist and neuroscientist who is known for her research on the neurophysiology of balance disorders and their rehabilitation. Dr. Horak received a BS degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Wisconsin, an MS in Neurophysiology from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Washington in Seattle. 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. Dr. Horak has over 400 peer-reviewed papers, over 54,000 citations, and over 50 million dollars in federal grants awarded. Dr. Horak has also patented several new technologies for the measurement and rehabilitation of balance disorders and helped start a small company, APDM, that develops synchronized, wearable sensors to quantify posture and gait.

Dr. Martina Mancini studies how to improve everyday functional mobility and prevent falls with rehabilitation interventions by investigating the pathophysiology of motor impairments and objectively characterizing them with new technologies. Using a variety of body-worn sensors (e.g. EMG, inertial sensors, fNIRS) to characterize movement and brain activity, this line of research will help to determine how the central nervous system integrates sensory information in healthy individuals and those with movement disorders, with a particular focus on Parkinson's disease. These novel, objective metrics of movement, combined with neurophysiological information, allows for the determination of optimal variable(s) to integrate with biofeedback, resulting in more effective rehabilitation interventions. This approach will bring new possibilities to monitor and condition functional mobility on a daily basis directly at home.

Dr. Logan Jones is an internal medicine doctor who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients (a "Hospitalist"). He is originally from Nebraska, studied Biochemistry and French as an undergraduate, then attending medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center where he was actively engaged with medical education, advocacy & policy, and infectious diseases research. He moved to Portland to complete his Internal Medicine Residency here at OHSU. He now cares for patient directly as a member of the Clinical Hospitalist Service, and supervises the care of patients admitted to the Medical Teaching Services who are primarily cared for by resident physicians. Dr. Jones is passionate about ensuring his patients feel informed, engaged, and empowered in decisions surrounding their own health. Within his practice, he is especially interested in how doctors can use new technologies to improve how they care for patients. Dr. Jones is part of OHSU's innovative culture of educating doctors and other health professionals. He works with the OHSU School of Medicine on several education innovation projects. Dr. Jones is interested in exploring how US medical education can transition to a time-flexible competency-based system to ensure that all medical trainees are competent and ready to care for patients when they finish training.