Clifford Chadderton Award for Prosthetic and Orthotic Research

The Clifford Chadderton Award for Prosthetic and Orthotic Research is a joint award from the ISPO Canada (International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics) and The War Amputations of Canada. This award endeavours to

• Improve the lives of people with disabilities who rely on prosthetic and orthotic devices
• Promote prosthetic and orthotic (P&O) research
• Encourage multidisciplinary involvement in P&O research
• Encourage innovation in Canada ’s P&O industry
• Encourage students to enter careers in P&O research
• Encourage publication of Canadian research in scientific literature

The total value of the award is $2000 CA and is comprised of $1000 to the recipient, $1000 for travel expenses to present at the ISPO Canada Conference, and free conference registration.

Guidelines

• Open to any Canadian resident involved in prosthetics and orthotics research
• Research must be focused on prosthetics and/or orthotics (technical, clinical, etc.)
• Research or development projects are eligible
• The project must be innovative, novel, and original
• An evaluation component must be included in the project
• Research published more that two years before the submission deadline are not eligible (submissions do not have to be published in the clinical or scientific literature to be eligible)

Submission

• Five page summary of project in research format (introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion)
• Reference list (no page limit)
• List of publications and presentations from submitted project
• Cover letter with title, name and contact information for the applicant(s)

The next call for submissions will be in fall 2012. Click here to download a PDF version of the award information.