Who We Are & What We Do

Medi Gait LTD

We help our clients improve their ability to walk normally through innovative technology. The integration of exhaustive research and 21st Century technology produces breakthrough results for movement disorders patients.

We believe in the patient's natural ability to improve his or her condition. We offer movement disorder patients a way to help themselves, even when the modern medical system can’t. Our Virtual Walker device is easy to use and brings rapid improvement leading to a higher quality of life.

Professor Yoram Baram Ph. D.

Founder of MediGait LLC, is a Professor of Computer Science and incumbent of the Roy Matas / Winnipeg Chair in Biomedical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Professor Baram earned the following degrees…

B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering—1972—from The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
M.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astonautics—1974—from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science—1976—from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Professor Baram has spent many years teaching and researching systems theory and learning theory. He also has extensive industrial experience in designing adaptive control and navigation systems.

Among other achievements he designed…

…a state estimator for the space shuttle autopilot at the Draper Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts
…inertial navigation systems for submarines and missiles at the Analytic Sciences Corporation in Reading, Massachusetts
…an optical navigation system for low-flying helicopters at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

In 2004 Professor Baram was granted a US patent for an Augmented Reality Closed-loop Apparatus for aiding people with movement disorders. We named this device the GaitAid Virtual Walker.

In June 2005, he received the Research Award for Best Platform Presentation in Research in Multiple Sclerosis at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers, Orlando, Florida. His more recent research continues to shed light on the processes controlling locomotion in the brain.