Nora E. Fritz, PhD, DPT

Associate Professor
Wayne State University

Dr. Nora Fritz is an Associate Professor in the Physical Therapy Program, Department of Health Care Sciences and Department of Neurology at Wayne State University. She also serves as the Director of Research for the Department of Health Care Sciences, and the Director of the Neuroimaging and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory . Dr. Fritz’s research interests include examining the influence of cognition on mobility and exploring exercise interventions to improve function in individuals with neurologic conditions. She is particularly interested in linking clinically observable function to structural imaging and predicting the outcomes of exercise interventions using neuroimaging. Her laboratory is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, TEVA, and the American Physical Therapy Association, Michigan.

Dr. Fritz’s research has been recognized by the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers, where she has twice won the Whitaker Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research, and the Huntington Study Group, where she was recognized as a Shoulson Scholar. Dr. Fritz serves on the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy Research Committee and is an invited member of the Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy's Balance and Falls Clinical Practice Guideline Development Group.

Poster(s):

• Pain Characteristics and Mechanisms Across Gait Disability Levels in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis

• Sleep Disturbance and Cognitive and Physical Function in Multiple Sclerosis