Partnerships fuel our work. We’re innovating together to improve lives around the world.
Research Partners
University of Toronto iSchool
Known as Canada’s Global Information School, the Faculty of Information’s iSchool is ranked among the world’s leading information and knowledge management schools by a number of global surveys. Adept at educating both professional practitioners and researchers, the iSchool offers exceptional programs year-round in various disciplines. Most notably, the school has maintained the internationally-recognized American Library Association (ALA) accreditation since 1937, produced the first PhD program in Information Studies in Canada and established the first iSchool in Canada.
Autodesk Research
Autodesk Research is working to help solve some of the world’s most complex design problems, from pressing ecological challenges to the development of scalable smart infrastructure. Designers use Autodesk tools to not only create plans for buildings, for example, but also to simulate their impact on the environment and track their performance over time. Autodesk Research is dedicated to innovation and discovery in this realm. Our interests range from methods to help users learn powerful digital prototyping tools, to visualization and simulation techniques which enable designers to achieve new levels of performance. Advancing the state of the art in human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and digital design technology, we collaborate openly with researchers at leading universities around the world.
Boundless Biomechanical Bracing
Boundless Biomechanical Bracing has been at the forefront of orthotic solutions since 1988. Our goal is to always work closely with our patients to achieve their boundless goals. We assess patients and work closely with allied health teams to collaboratively develop suitable orthotic solutions. We design and fabricate the appropriate orthosis right here at our clinic. We work with the patient to fit the custom-made orthosis and continue the follow-up care to ensure the patient achieves the prescribed goals. Custom bracing can be an effective solution for a number of different biomechanical issues from chronic and acute foot problems to arthritic disorders, cerebral palsy, stroke and even sports injuries.
Exceed International Disability Research Network
The Exceed International Disability Research Network (ERN) is a disability and Prosthetics and Orthotics (P&O) research consortium, coordinated by Exceed and involving universities and other institutions from Europe, North America, Southeast Asia and Australia. ERN aims to benefit people with disabilities by accessing funding to carry out and make use of high quality, operational research on disability and P&O issues and disseminating research results. The network has a particular interest in less-developed countries, especially countries in which Exceed provides services. It will address issues identified by group members and work in partnership with organisations which wish to develop, commission and implement research strategies and projects and build research capacity.
gradientspace
gradientspace is a 3D software product studio located in Toronto, Canada. We’re focused on a particular kind of product: 3D design tools. This could be a general-purpose 3D tool like Autodesk Meshmixer (which we invented), or something more specific, like a tool for designing 3D-printable leg prosthetics (which we also had a hand in). Maybe you need an Augmented Reality iPhone app for showing architecture clients design alternatives in the real world? A web-based VR app for designing custom-built garden sheds? An interactive visualization of city zoning requirements? We do that kind of thing.
Prince Sultan University
Prince Sultan University (PSU) aims to provide the Middle East with a quality education to the highest international standards. In its efforts towards a successful and responsible life-long learning, PSU integrates modern technology, pedagogy and human values for the advancement of scientific research, productivity, and leadership towards a more meaningful social life. PSU is committed to an effective management of institutional resources to optimize its multiple roles as a catalyst for new learning opportunities, national and international partnerships, continuous studies, professional growth, community service and diversity in educational horizons for the good of humanity.
Clinical Partners
CCBRT (Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania)
CCBRT is a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) established in 1994. From its roots in small-scale community-based rehabilitation for people with disabilities, CCBRT has grown to become Tanzania’s largest provider of disability and rehabilitation services. Clinical care is just the tip of CCBRT’s work: through extensive training, capacity building and advocacy, the organisation aims to empower people living with disabilities and improve access to medical and rehabilitative treatment across Tanzania. Recognising the critical relationship between quality accessible maternal and newborn health and disability prevention, CCBRT is also engaged in extensive maternal and newborn health activities, including the construction of a specialist maternity hospital, due to open in 2018.
Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services Uganda (CoRSU)
CoRSU was established in 2006 as a private, non-profit, non-governmental organization in Uganda. It is a Ugandan initiative that was encouraged and supported by CBM with the main aim of expanding and improving rehabilitation services for children and people with disabilities. Its primary focus is on children with physical impairments for whom CoRSU provides orthopaedic and plastic/reconstructive surgical interventions and rehabilitation services. CoRSU also operates a Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Programme that identifies, assesses and refers children from villages to the Hospital.
Cambodian School of Prosthetics & Orthotics (CSPO)
Exceed Worldwide is a charity and international development organisation that supports people with disabilities who live in poverty in South and Southeast Asia. It does so by training Prosthetic and Orthotic (P&O) professionals and by providing free P&O services. Exceed, with partners, has established Schools of Prosthetics and Orthotics in five countries in South and Southeast Asia, all of which are accredited by the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO). CSPO was the first training facility established by Exceed in 1994, and three public clinics – linked to CSPO and in different Cambodian provinces – provide free, comprehensive physical rehabilitation services to those most in need.
Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists (TATCOT)
TATCOT was founded in Moshi in 1981. TATCOT is a supra-regional training centre providing courses in orthopaedic technology in Africa for students from all English-speaking African countries as well as other interested countries. The centre trains orthopaedic clinicians with the knowledge and skills to provide prostheses, orthoses, wheelchairs and supportive seating to people with disabilities, including people with amputations and neuromuscular disorders such as poliomyelitis, paralysis, cerebral palsy, clubfoot and trauma.