PAMA SYMPOSIUM 2022

Dr. Nancy Byl is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. After completing her MPH in 1968, she joined the UCSF faculty in the Division of Ambulatory and Community Medicine. She was the Director of Rehabilitation at Pacific Medical Center and Children's Hospital and then completed her PhD in 1985. She joined the faculty in the Curriculum of Physical Therapy in l985. She had the opportunity to create a joint MPT with San Francisco State University and then created the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science in the School of Medicine in l990. She served as Chair until 2008. In that time, approval was received to offer a DPTSc degree from UCSF/SFSU, to initiate the post professional DPT degree and then the entry level DPT as a joint UCSF/ SFSU degree. The post professional DPT also included CSUFresno. Dr. Byl has received numerous awards including becoming a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and received the Lucy Blair Service Award. From the California Chapter of the APTA, she has also received the Charles Magistro Award for Outstanding Service, the Royce B. Noland Award of Merit, and the Outstanding Research Presentation Award. She has served on the Board of Directors of the CPTA for multiple terms and currently is President of the Physical Therapy Fund which supports research for young physical therapy investigators. Dr. Byl currently provides specialty lectures in the academic program, provides patient care in the UCSF PT Health and Wellness Center and is involved in multiple clinical research studies involving rehabilitation technology and exercise programs for patients post stroke and post Parkinson’s Disease.

Bruce Iglauer is the president and founder of Alligator Records, the largest contemporary blues label in the world. Iglauer founded the Chicago-based label in 1971, at the age of 23. Alligator’s catalog contains over 350 CDs, over 120 produced by Iglauer. 26 of the albums he’s produced have been nominated for Grammy Awards. Alligator releases have won dozens of Blues Music Awards, the highest award the blues world presents. Bruce has managed the careers of Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks, Albert Collins, Son Seals and others. He has also toured extensively with Alligator artists. (He wants his headstone to read “The Blues’ Best Roadie”). In addition, he is a founder of the Chicago Blues Festival. Iglauer is also the co-author of “Bitten By The Blues,” published in 2018 by University of Chicago Press. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2002, Chicago Magazine awarded Iglauer its “Chicagoan Of The Year” Award. He has sat on the boards of The Blues Foundation, The Blues Music Association, The American Association of Independent Music and the National Association of Independent Record Distributors and Manufacturers.

Toronzo Cannon’s music was described by the Chicago Tribune as “deep, contemporary Chicago blues…razor-sharp guitar and compelling, forceful singing.” Over the last decade, Toronzo has emerged as an international ambassador for Chicago Blues. He’s played major festivals and clubs across the U.S.A. and also made multiple trips to Europe and headlined festivals in Japan, squeezing in gigs and tours while (for 25 years, up until two years ago) working a day job as a Chicago bus driver. He delivers up-to-the-minute, original Windy City blues that honor the city’s blues traditional but also delve into non-traditional subjects like health insurance, hypocritical politicians, urban violence, male midlife crisis, and evil divorce lawyers. His passionate (and sometimes humor-filled) vocals are matched by his searing guitar playing.

Born in 1968, Toronzo grew up on the South Side, in the shadow of the notorious Robert Taylor Homes. He didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 22, and began as a reggae player, but soon found his way into the ultra-competitive Chicago blues scene. He worked as a sideman for years before forming his own band and earning his way from tiny bar gigs to the stage of Buddy Guy’s famed Legends club and multiple appearances at the Chicago Blues Festival. He’s been nominated for ten Blues Music Awards, the Grammy of the blues world.

Toronzo has cut five career albums, the last two for Chicago’s famed Alligator Records. His most recent, The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp was released just before the pandemic. He’s writing now for another album and expects to be in the studio in the next few months.

J. Matt McCrary, PhD is a multidisciplinary researcher with diverse expertise in music physiology (PhD University of Sydney; Postdoc IMMM Hannover), exercise science (BS Michigan; Postdoc UNSW Sydney), clinical research (Postdoc UNSW Sydney; Intern Duke), and music performance (BFA Michigan – jazz drums & percussion). His current research at the Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine in Hannover, Germany (IMMM Hannover) aims to better understand the physiologic effects of playing and listening to music to: 1) inform healthier and more productive practice planning in high-level musicians; and 2) determine how playing and listening to music can be used to reduce non-communicable disease risk (e.g. cancer; heart disease) in the general population. His research has been recognized and supported by Fulbright (US/ Australia) and Humboldt (US/Germany) Fellowships and grants and awards from performing arts medicine, neuroscience, cancer, biomedical science, and music performance organizations in Australia, Germany, the UK and the US. In addition to his work at IMMM Hannover, Dr. McCrary presently serves on the Board of Directors and as Chair of the Young Professionals Committee of the Performing Arts Medicine Association, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney.

Flynn Smith has been working in the film industry since 2006. Originally based in Saint Louis, he has lived and worked in various locations across the United States including Wilmington NC, New Orleans, and currently, Chicago. Most notably he has been The Assistant Property Master for the NBC television show Chicago PD since 2016, working closely with actors and stunt performers in the use of firearms on set.