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Harpreet leads the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Research Program, where she focuses on improving care and long-term outcomes for children and adolescents with limb differences. She lead the developement of LIMB-Q Kids, a special questionnaire designed with input from children, families, and healthcare teams from 18 centres around the world. LIMB-Q Kids helps us better understand how lower limb differences and complex treatments affects a child’s daily life, mobility, and overall well-being. It is now used internationally to support patient-centred care.

Harpreet is also leading the development of a new tool that will allow doctors and prosthetists to measures how satisfied children are with their prosthesis. She is helping bring patient-reported outcome measures into everyday clinical care at the Limb Reconstruction Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital. She co-founded the International Limb Differences Network and serves as the scientific lead for the International Limb Difference Registry, which helps improve care and research across countries. Harpreet is also committed to patient engagement, knowledge sharing, and mentoring young researchers through the Walk Tall Research Program.

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Taqdir Ali is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Orthopaedics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. in 2019 from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He got his B.S Degree in Computer Science from Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Pakistan. He has more than six years industrial experience as a software engineer, software architect and a researcher in reputable UK-based software industry. Before joining his current position, he also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Medical Genetics, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia (2021 – 2023). During his research career, he worked on different projects of healthcare and wellness domain. His current research includes knowledge acquisition, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Knowledge Standardization, Applications of Machine Learning, Text Processing, and e-Health standardization.

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Jake graduated from Camosun college with a bachelor degree in sports and fitness leadership. He went on to complete a masters in occupational therapy at the University of British Columbia in 2019. He started work at Richmond Hospital in the acute orthopaedics unit and then transitioned to neurology. In 2021, he moved to Vancouver General Hospital on the hospitalist medicine unit before getting a float position. In this position, Jake spent time on many different units including ICU/burns, orthopaedics and trauma, plastics, medicine, neurology and vascular surgery.