Member May 2026: LDPRNet: Advancing Collaboration Across Limb Loss, Difference, and Preservation Centers of Excellence-Session Recording

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The session focused on building a national network of Limb Loss, Difference, and Preservation Rehabilitation (LDPR) centers of excellence. After housekeeping remarks, Dr. Pratik Grover introduced the panel and outlined the group’s journey from early discussions in 2024 to a more structured vision in 2025 centered on four pillars: clinical care, education, service/advocacy, and research.<br /><br />Panelists David Crandall, Vinay Vinodia, and Marlies Gonzalez-Fernandez shared how their programs developed over time. Their centers emphasized multidisciplinary care, close partnerships with prosthetists and surgeons, inpatient and outpatient continuity, peer support, adaptive sports, and growing research efforts. They also highlighted fellowship training, resident education, and advocacy work, including insurance reform and community engagement.<br /><br />Audience polls showed that most programs already have multidisciplinary clinical care and patient education, but fewer have fellowships, outcomes databases, industry partnerships, or published evidence. Major barriers to growth were funding, institutional buy-in, and staffing. Participants identified shared clinical guidelines, referral pathways, unified curricula, peer mentoring, and coordinated community outreach as the most valuable benefits of a network.<br /><br />The discussion then shifted to what a network could look like. Possible models ranged from loosely coordinated collaboration to a highly centralized federated system. Key needs included governance, funding, data sharing, common outcome measures, and infrastructure. The panel linked this vision to national disability research priorities and CARF accreditation opportunities.<br /><br />The session closed with a proposed multi-year roadmap: define center criteria, form a working group, develop governance and shared data systems, launch a pilot network, and later expand, benchmark, and sustain the collaboration.

Keywords

Limb Loss

Difference and Preservation Rehabilitation

LDPR centers of excellence

multidisciplinary care

prosthetics

fellowship training

patient education

research network

insurance reform

peer support

outcomes databases

governance model