Silvia Raschke, Ph.D., Project Leader, MAKE+, Orthopaedic and Assistive Devices is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Prosthetics and Orthotics Journal (CPOJ) and was the Editor of the recent CPOJ Special Issue: Health Economics in Prosthetics & Orthotics in the Canadian Prosthetics and Orthotics Journal. It is the first collection of works published in academic literature on a wide range of issues that touch the economic and business aspects of Prosthetic and Orthotic sector.
About Dr. Raschke
Dr. Silvia Raschke has a Ph.D. in Prosthetics and Orthotics from Strathclyde University’s Faculty of Engineering (1997). Her research gives voice to the end-users of products, processes, or policies to ensure that the communities she works with are represented and have their needs met. She does this by employing evidence-based practices to explore and organize how people in the community are impacted by product design, standards of practice (or lack thereof) and policy impact those people so that product design, process design and policy development is practical, implementable, and actually support those who have to make things happen on the front line, on the shop floor or in their homes.
Her two areas of specialty are rehabilitation engineering with a focus on prosthetic and orthotic design in supporting the clinicians and patients and with a focus on service dogs for military veterans and first responders with PTSD. Dr. Raschke has served on a variety of professional and educational committees and is a past Vice President and Board Member of the BCIT Faculty and Staff Association, in addition to being a member of the BCIT Emergency Response Team. Her work at BCIT included being Principle Investigator for the Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology that Enables (CREATE), a collaborative venture between BCIT and the Neil Squire Foundation that was funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund (2001).
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