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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
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GRRIT
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 7
Current and Future Projects
Projects included are:
• Push,
• Pull,
• Combination
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Hot – Cold Sensor (PULL)
Scoliosis Active Bracing – (PULL)
GRH Prosthetics
GRH Researcher
Edmond Lou
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3Scape Immersive Videos (PUSH)
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Dynamic Shoulder Orthotic (PULL)
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Quality of Life Project 2016-2017
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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
1) 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.