Lisa Farrell, P.T., Ph.D., AT,C has been providing vestibular and balance rehabilitation for adults with various neurological pathologies in the South Florida area since 1999. She
is an adjunct faculty member of Nova Southeastern University with neuroscience being her area of teaching. Since 2000, she has been a faculty member for the APTA’s
Vestibular Rehabilitation: A Competency-Based Course, and in 2013, became a codirector of this program. Additionally, she has been part of the faculty for the APTA’s
Pediatric Vestibular Rehabilitation: A Competency-Based Course since its inception in 2010. Dr. Farrell’s athletic training education is from the University of Florida. Her
physical therapy education is a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University and a Master’s degree and PhD from the University of Miami. With her graduate degrees,
she concentrated her area of study in the field of balance as well as in vestibular assessment and rehabilitation. Throughout her career, she has served her profession by
being an active member of the American Physical Therapy Association. In 2017, Dr. Farrell founded Symmetry Alliance, LLC, a consulting firm for program development
and provider of continuing education for rehabilitation professionals, so that she can contribute to helping communities improve their medical care for patients with vestibular
pathology. Dr. Farrell’s professional goal is to always strive to learn and grow so that she can provide the highest standard of teaching and care possible.

Sara MacDowell, PT, DPT earned her doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Washington University in St. Louis.  Following graduation, she pursued advanced training in treating vestibular and facial nerve disorders. She worked for 4 years in both inpatient and outpatient neurologic settings at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, MO. For the past 7 years, she has worked as a clinical physical therapist and researcher at Our Lady of the Lake Hearing and Balance Center, a multi-disciplinary neurotology practice. She is also adjunct faculty at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Department of Physical Therapy. She has travelled nationally to teach continuing education courses specific to management of patients with vestibular disorders. She serves as the chair of the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy taskforce for dissemination and implementation of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Peripheral Vestibular Hypofunction.

Elizabeth Dannenbaum, PhD, MSC began working at the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital in Laval, Canada as a clinical research associate and physiotherapist in the vestibular program in September 2000 after she had begun to specialize in vestibular rehabilitation in Israel. Elizabeth Dannenbaum’s interest focus on clinical assessment and treatment tools for people with vestibular deficits. This includes developing a novel questionnaire for the evaluation of visual vertigo (dizziness provoked in dynamic visual environments i.e., shopping centers, watching moving cars) and furthering the understanding of the clinical visual-vestibular interactions. Her other special interests are in the area of vestibular impairment in the pediatric population.