Toronto Rehab
At the Toronto Rehab, our goal is to advance rehabilitation and enhance quality of life by pushing the frontiers of rehabilitation science. As Canada's largest academic hospital providing adult rehabilitation, complex continuing care and long-term care services, our patient care, research and education focus on helping the 3.6 million Canadians who experience and live with disabling illness and injury. Toronto Rehab is a fully affiliated research and teaching hospital of the University of Toronto.
Areas of Research
Rehabilitation research is focused on finding new and better ways to help people maintain their independence and regain the skills and abilities following an injury or illness. The cornerstone of rehabilitation research at Toronto Rehab is iDAPT - Intelligent Design for Adaptation, Participation and Technology.
iDAPT is Toronto Rehab's $36 million rehabilitation research initiative to develop one of the world's most advanced rehabilitation research facilities where new therapies and assistive technologies will be developed for older people and those living with disabling injury or illness. iDAPT will be home not only to the brightest minds in rehabilitation research, but also to state-of-the-art technology - instruments of innovation that equip researchers, clinicians, engineers and industry with the tools and facilities they need to develop new, practical and effective solutions to real-world challenges.
By 2010, iDAPT will consist of approximately 60,000 square feet of renovated and newly constructed research labs and workshops, which will be located at Toronto Rehab's redeveloped University Centre and Lyndhurst Centre, and at the Rehabilitation Sciences Building of the University of Toronto.
iDAPT: the future of rehabilitation science
Imagine having the ability to manufacture complex prototypes with unprecedented speed, greater functionality, sophistication and style. In late spring of 2006, the first of iDAPT's advanced workshops and labs come on-line.
Located in the heart of Toronto's Discovery District, iDAPT's cutting-edge workshops and labs will have:
- Superior electronics design and circuit-board prototyping, metal/plastic machining, forming, fabricating and finishing, using computer controlled milling, 3D shape-sensing and stereolithography technology to equip researchers and industry partners with the tools they need to develop prototypes with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
- Advanced measurement and testing capabilities include several labs with a range of equipment to support biomechanics, EMG, swallowing, sleep, auditory and visual studies.
- Facilities for planning and conducting clinical trials are also available.
We have experience and a proven track record in working with industry in the transference of technology to the marketplace. iDAPT's "club" approach is simple: we emphasize collaboration and welcome industry as equal partners in developing groundbreaking rehabilitation research and developing meaningful products, interventions and technology to help make life more livable for millions of people affected by disability or age.
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Contact
http://www.torontorehab.on.ca/
Toronto Rehab
555 University Avenue, Suite 1202
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2A2
Toronto Rehab's Research Program
Dr. Geoff Fernie
Vice President, Research
Telephone: 416-597-3244 x. 3081
Email: fernie.geoff@torontorehab.on.ca
iDAPT
Ms. Dayle Levine
iDAPT Project Manager
Telephone: 416-597-3422 x. 3927
Email: levine.dayle@torontorehab.on.ca