Dr. Capal is chief of the Division of Child Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and Golisano Children’s Hospital. She holds the Frederick A. Horner, MD, Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric Neurology and serves as co-director of the Human Clinical Phenotyping and Recruitment Core of the University of Rochester Intellectual Developmental Disability Research Center (UR-IDDRC).
Her clinical and research focus is in neurogenetic conditions resulting in neurodevelopmental disabilities across the lifespan and developing clinical trials to identify, characterize, and develop preventative, disease-modifying treatments.