Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

This proposal seeks funding for a one-day planning meeting to develop a research agenda to advance care for persons with amputation. People with upper-limb and/or lower-limb amputation face a number of challenges to their health, independence, and wellbeing. There is a need to bring researchers, clinicians, decision-makers, advocacy groups and patients together in order to identify key priorities for advancing care and research capacity in the field of amputation. In order to achieve this goal, a one-day research planning meeting to be attended by researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and members of the community will be organized in order to build on current work being undertaken at various amputation care research centres across Ontario and to plan different ways different stakeholders can work together to develop clinically meaningful lines of research, which will improve the quality of life in persons with amputation.