Nancy Byl

Nancy N. Byl, PT, MPH, PhD, FAPTA, is a professor and chair emeritus at UCSF, School of Medicine, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. She has been involved in clinical practice for 60 years. She has experience as an administrator, educator, researcher, and clinician. Her research has focused on basic science studies in neuroscience relative to focal hand dystonia, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease. She is respected for translating basic science findings to clinical intervention studies to determine that sensorimotor retraining can normalize cortical mapping and improve motor control in patients with neurological impairments. She is also familiar with the challenges of integrating robotics and exoskeletons in rehabilitation. She likes to excite and motivate patients to engage in home-based neural adaptive activities with family members and friends.