Fay B. Horak, Ph.D., P.T.

  • Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine
  • Jay Nutt, MD Professor of Clinical Research of Movement Disorders
  • Balance Disorders Laboratory

Biography

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. Horak was the first elected President of The International Society of Posture and Gait Research (ISPGR). She greatly expanded the organization’s membership and helped to develop its charter and organize meetings. She holds one of the most cited articles over the last 125 years by the American Physiological Society for 2012: Horak FB, Nashner LM. Central programming of postural movements - adaptation to altered support-surface configurations. Journal of Neurophysiology. 55: 1369-1381, 1986.

Professor of neurology:

Department of Neurology
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology

Faculty member:
Neuroscience Graduate Program

Honorary faculty:
University of Oregon
Pacific University
University of Calgary
University of Waterloo

PubMed Listing

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.S., 1973, University of Wisconsin
    • M.S., 1977, University of Minnesota
    • Ph.D., 1982, University of Washington

Publications

Publications

  • Alterations in functional connectivity of interoceptive and Cortico-Subcortical areas in Multiple Sclerosis-Related fatigue

    Neuroscience
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. Ishu Arpan
    3. Mariana Penteado Nucci
    4. Fay B. Horak
  • An Acetylcholine M1 Receptor-Positive Allosteric Modulator (TAK-071) in Parkinson Disease With Cognitive Impairment

    JAMA Neurology
    1. Niraj M. Shanbhag
    2. Jaya L. Padmanabhan
    3. Zheng Zhang
    4. Brian T. Harel
    5. Hongxia Jia
    6. Tairmae Kangarloo
    7. Wei Yin
    8. Ariel V. Dowling
    9. Antonio Laurenza
    10. Polyna Khudyakov
    11. Kevin Galinsky
    12. Robert D. Latzman
    13. Tanya Simuni
    14. Daniel Weintraub
    15. Fay B. Horak
    16. Cindy Lustig
    17. Paul Maruff
    18. Arthur A. Simen
  • Complex Exercises Improve Cognition in People With Parkinson’s Disease and Freezing of Gait

    Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. Filipe Oliveira de Almeida
    3. Alana Batista
    4. Egberto Reis Barbosa
    5. Fay B. Horak
    6. Carlos Ugrinowitsch
  • Daily life mobility detects frailty, falls, and functioning in older prostate cancer survivors treated with androgen deprivation therapy

    Journal of Geriatric Oncology
    1. Deanne C. Tibbitts
    2. Martina Mancini
    3. Sydnee Stoyles
    4. Nathan F. Dieckmann
    5. Julie N. Graff
    6. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    7. Fay B. Horak
    8. Kerri M. Winters-Stone
  • Longitudinal Changes in Patient- and Clinical-Reported Outcomes in Early Spinocerebellar Ataxia Types 1, 2, 3, and 6 from the IDEA Study

    Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
    1. Andreea M. Rawlings
    2. Rosalind S. Chuang
    3. Jeremy D. Schmahmann
    4. Susan L. Perlman
    5. Liana S. Rosenthal
    6. Delaram Safarpour
    7. Hannah Casey
    8. Fay B. Horak
    9. Christopher M. Gomez
  • Accelerating Parkinson’s Disease drug development with federated learning approaches

    npj Parkinson's Disease
    1. Amit Khanna
    2. Jamie Adams
    3. Chrystalina Antoniades
    4. Bastiaan R. Bloem
    5. Camille Carroll
    6. Jesse Cedarbaum
    7. Joshua Cosman
    8. David T. Dexter
    9. Marissa F. Dockendorf
    10. Jeremy Edgerton
    11. Laura Gaetano
    12. Erkuden Goikoetxea
    13. Derek Hill
    14. Fay Horak
    15. Elena S. Izmailova
    16. Tairmae Kangarloo
    17. Dina Katabi
    18. Catherine Kopil
    19. Michael Lindemann
    20. Jennifer Mammen
    21. Kenneth Marek
    22. Kevin McFarthing
    23. Anat Mirelman
    24. Martijn Muller
    25. Gennaro Pagano
    26. M. Judith Peterschmitt
    27. Jie Ren
    28. Lynn Rochester
    29. Sakshi Sardar
    30. Andrew Siderowf
    31. Tanya Simuni
    32. Diane Stephenson
    33. Christine Swanson-Fischer
    34. John A. Wagner
    35. Graham B. Jones
  • Acceptability of digital health technologies in early Parkinson's disease

    Frontiers in Digital Health
    1. T. Kangarloo
    2. R. D. Latzman
    3. J. L. Adams
    4. R. Dorsey
    5. M. Kostrzebski
    6. J. Severson
    7. D. Anderson
    8. F. Horak
    9. D. Stephenson
    10. J. Cosman
  • Assessment of Mobility Trajectories Using Wearable Inertial Sensors During Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplant

    Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
    1. Meghan B. Skiba
    2. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    3. Fay Horak
    4. Nathan F. Dieckmann
    5. Carolyn Guidarelli
    6. Gabrielle Meyers
    7. Brandon Hayes-Lattin
    8. Kerri Winters-Stone
  • Can strength training or tai ji quan training reduce frailty in postmenopausal women treated with chemotherapy? A secondary data analysis of the GET FIT trial

    Journal of Cancer Survivorship
    1. Kerri M. Winters-Stone
    2. Sydnee A. Stoyles
    3. Nathan F. Dieckmann
    4. Elizabeth Eckstrom
    5. Shiuh Wen Luoh
    6. Fay B. Horak
    7. Eric J. Roeland
    8. Fuzhong Li
  • Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy and Falls in Cancer Survivors Relate to Digital Balance and Gait Impairments

    JCO Precision Oncology
    1. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    2. Daniel Muzyka
    3. Carolyn Guidarelli
    4. Kristen Sowalsky
    5. Fay B. Horak
    6. Kerri M. Winters-Stone
  • Digital gait measures, but not the 400-meter walk time, detect abnormal gait characteristics in people with Prediabetes

    Gait and Posture
    1. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    2. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    3. Martina Mancini
    4. Kristen Sowalsky
    5. Fay B. Horak
  • Digital Measures of Postural Sway Quantify Balance Deficits in Spinocerebellar Ataxia

    Movement Disorders
    1. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    2. Daniel Muzyka
    3. Adam Jagodinsky
    4. James McNames
    5. Hannah Casey
    6. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    7. Kristen Sowalsky
    8. Delaram Safarpour
    9. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    10. Jeremy D. Schmahmann
    11. Liana S. Rosenthal
    12. Susan Perlman
    13. Fay B. Horak
    14. Christopher M. Gomez
  • Disfunción motora subclínica en las Ataxias Espinocerebelosas

    Anales de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba
    1. Luis Velázquez-Pérez
    2. Roberto Rodriguez-Labrada
    3. Yasmany González-Garcés
    4. Reidenis Torres-Vega
    5. Jacqueline Medrano-Montero
    6. Yaimeé Vázquez-Mojena
    7. Eduardo Arrufat-Pie
    8. Beatriz Ramírez-Bautista
    9. Yanela Rodríguez-álvarez
    10. Mario Fernández Herrera
    11. Christopher M. Gomez
    12. Fay Horak
    13. Ulf Ziemann
    14. Georg Auburger
  • Effects of balance constraints during a double-step reaching task

    Gait and Posture
    1. Christopher Moya-Jofré
    2. Juan José Mariman
    3. Trinidad Bruna-Melo
    4. José Carrasco-Plaza
    5. Julio Torres-Elgueta
    6. Fernanda Aleitte-Leyton
    7. Cristian Muñoz-Puelman
    8. Fay B. Horak
    9. Martina Mancini
    10. Pablo Ignacio Burgos
  • ISB recommendations on the definition, estimation, and reporting of joint kinematics in human motion analysis applications using wearable inertial measurement technology

    Journal of Biomechanics
    1. Andrea Cereatti
    2. Reed Gurchiek
    3. Annegret Mündermann
    4. Silvia Fantozzi
    5. Fay Horak
    6. Scott Delp
    7. Kamiar Aminian
  • Mesencephalic Locomotor Region and Presynaptic Inhibition during Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in People with Parkinson’s Disease

    Brain Sciences
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. Jumes Lira
    3. Daniel Boari Coelho
    4. Andrea Cristina de Lima-Pardini
    5. Mariana Penteado Nucci
    6. Eugenia Casella Tavares Mattos
    7. Fernando Henrique Magalhaes
    8. Egberto Reis Barbosa
    9. Luis Augusto Teixeira
    10. Edson Amaro Junior
    11. Carlos Ugrinowitsch
    12. Fay B. Horak
  • Standing Balance Conditions and Digital Sway Measures for Clinical Trials of Friedreich's Ataxia

    Movement Disorders
    1. Hannah L. Casey
    2. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    3. Daniel Muzyka
    4. James McNames
    5. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    6. Kristen Sowalsky
    7. Delaram Safarpour
    8. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    9. Jeremy D. Schmahmann
    10. Liana S. Rosenthal
    11. Susan Perlman
    12. Christian Rummey
    13. Fay B. Horak
    14. Christopher M. Gomez
  • Stride width and postural stability in frontal gait disorders and Parkinson’s disease

    Journal of Neurology
    1. Carolin Curtze
    2. Vrutangkumar V. Shah
    3. Alexa M. Stefanko
    4. Marian L. Dale
    5. John G. Nutt
    6. Martina Mancini
    7. Fay B. Horak
  • The Use of Novel Instrumented Socks to Detect Changes in Daily Life Mobility During an Exercise Intervention in Prostate Cancer Survivors Treated with Androgen Deprivation Therapy

    Seminars in oncology nursing
    1. Deanne C. Tibbitts
    2. Sydnee A. Stoyles
    3. Martina Mancini
    4. Mahmoud El-Gohary
    5. Fay B. Horak
    6. Nathan F. Dieckmann
    7. Kerri M. Winters-Stone
  • Using Smartphone Sensors for Ataxia Trials

    Cerebellum
    1. Andrea H. Németh
    2. Chrystalina A. Antoniades
    3. Juergen Dukart
    4. Martina Minnerop
    5. Clara Rentz
    6. Bart Jan Schuman
    7. Bart van de Warrenburg
    8. Ilse Willemse
    9. Enrico Bertini
    10. Anoopum S. Gupta
    11. Carlos Bandeira de Mello Monteiro
    12. Hajar Almoajil
    13. Lori Quinn
    14. Susan B. Perlman
    15. Fay Horak
    16. Winfried Ilg
    17. Andreas Traschütz
    18. Adam P. Vogel
    19. Helen Dawes
  • Balance telerehabilitation and wearable technology for people with Parkinson’s disease (TelePD trial)

    BMC Neurology
    1. Carla Silva-Batista
    2. Jennifer L. Wilhelm
    3. Kathleen T. Scanlan
    4. Margaret Stojak
    5. Patricia Carlson-Kuhta
    6. Siting Chen
    7. William Liu
    8. Tomas Nicolás García de la Huerta
    9. Fay B. Horak
    10. Martina Mancini
    11. Laurie A. King
  • Combined Aerobic and Strength Training Improves Dynamic Stability and can Prevent against Static Stability Decline in Postmenopausal Women

    Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetricia
    1. Ana Claudia Fortaleza Marques
    2. Fabrício Eduardo Rossi
    3. Lucas Melo Neves
    4. Tiego Aparecido Diniz
    5. Iracimara De Anchieta Messias
    6. José A. Barela
    7. Fay B. Horak
    8. Ismael Forte Freitas Júnior
  • C-STIM

    Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
    1. M. L. Dale
    2. M. Mancini
    3. A. Stevens
    4. B. H. Brumbach
    5. A. Prewitt
    6. G. Harker
    7. C. Silva-Batista
    8. A. Ragothaman
    9. R. L. Folmer
    10. J. F. Quinn
    11. F. B. Horak
  • Digital measures of freezing of gait across the spectrum of normal, non-freezers, possible freezers and definite freezers

    Journal of Neurology
    1. Martina Mancini
    2. Naoya Hasegawa
    3. Daniel S. Peterson
    4. Fay B. Horak
    5. John G. Nutt