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Glenrose Rehabilitation Research Innovation and Technology Hub

(GRRIT)

GRRIT Improved Healthcare & Economic

Diversification

Dr. Lois Macklin, Sr. Consultant

Research and Technology

Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital

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Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

• 244 bed publically funded hospital • Dedicated to the delivery of rehabilitation medicine• 122 different clinics (neo-natal to geriatrics)

• ~30,000 active patients annually

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Glenrose Rehabilitation, Research, Innovation and Technology Hub

Mission:To advance and assist research and innovation that improves the quality of life for people with disabilities through cooperation with academic and industrial partners

GRRIT

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GRRIT Role and Function

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Building an Innovation Eco System

GRRIT contributes by:• Assisting academic and industrial partners

with access to AHS/GRH• Brokering collaborations with external

partners• Providing partial financial support for R&D• Pursuit of external funding • Changing organizational culture

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GRRIT Advisory Council

Guided by Eleven Representatives From:• Industry• Research Community• Glenrose Hospital Foundation• Patient Population• Academia• Senior Executives

• AHS• Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital

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GRRIT Funding

• Glenrose Foundation provided base funding

• NRC – Industrial Research Assistance Program provided a series of 3 grants

• Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education grant

• Western Economic Diversification Program• Total Funding ≈ $1.25 million

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Current and Future Projects

Projects included are:• Push, • Pull,

• Combination

 

Hot – Cold Sensor (PULL)

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Scoliosis Active Bracing – (PULL)GRH Prosthetics

GRH Researcher Edmond Lou

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3Scape Immersive Videos (PUSH)

http://www.imageworksalberta.com/

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Dynamic Shoulder Orthotic (PULL)

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Quality of Life Project 2016-2017

A major multi-disciplinary initiative:

What is required to maximize the Quality of Life of Older persons with Disabilities?

1) Identify the challenges by creating a collision space for intellectual exchange between industry and clinicians

2) Develop technical solutions to those challenges through collaboration

3) Provide clinical validation and testing at the Glenrose

(Push and Pull)

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Philosophic Approach

“When you come to a fork

in the Road –TAKE IT” Yogi Berra

To achieve our innovation ambitions at the GRH, we must be a meaningful partner in the innovation/commercialization process.