Dr. Schambra received her undergraduate neuroscience degree from Brown University and her MD from Emory University. She underwent neurology training at Harvard University and neurorehabilitation training at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship studying motor learning and noninvasive brain stimulation with Dr. Leonardo Cohen at NINDS/NIH. Dr. Schambra was on faculty at Columbia University until 2016, when she joined NYU School of Medicine. In her spare time, she can be found fly fishing with her husband and menacing New York on her Citibike.