Compassion informed by experience
Begin with the realities patients and families face, including the functional and emotional dimensions of recovery.
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
A personal recovery became a public mission.
ISO Metrik Institute, Inc. was founded by Prentice Capri McGhee to advance research, education, collaboration, and access across rehabilitation science and human health.
✦“The road to recovery showed me how much work remained to be done—and how many people could benefit if research, education, and access moved forward together.”Prentice Capri McGhee · Founder and President
FOUNDER’S STORY
Prentice Capri McGhee: from lived experience to lasting purpose.
In 2012, Prentice Capri McGhee suffered a mini stroke that resulted in facial muscle weakness. During the long road to recovery, he experienced firsthand the physical and personal effects of impaired facial function—and the limited tools available for structured facial rehabilitation.
He recognized a striking gap: resistance equipment existed for nearly every major muscle group in the body, but no comparable system had been developed specifically for facial muscles. That observation became the starting point for a prototype intended to help restore control.
Over more than a decade, McGhee pursued research, invention, testing, and multidisciplinary collaboration. His personal recovery remained at the center of that work: a reminder that rehabilitation is not an abstract technical problem, but a human journey affecting communication, expression, confidence, participation, and quality of life.
WHY THE INSTITUTE EXISTS
One experience revealed a much larger need.
The Institute was created to carry this work beyond one person, one product, or one diagnosis. Its charitable mission is to improve human health through scientific research, healthcare education, clinical collaboration, rehabilitation science, and community outreach.
Its scope includes stroke, facial paralysis, neuromuscular recovery, ENT and airway health, sleep apnea, TMJ, speech and swallowing, muscle and bone health, healthy aging, preventive care, and future biomedical innovation.
The intended beneficiaries include patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, researchers, students, educators, underserved communities, and the public.
A PUBLIC-BENEFIT COMMITMENT
The values guiding the journey.
Evidence before assumption
Ask meaningful questions, use responsible methods, disclose limitations, and share useful knowledge.
Education that empowers
Help professionals, patients, caregivers, students, and communities understand and use reliable information.
Access that reaches further
Prioritize underserved and medically vulnerable populations and reduce barriers to learning and opportunity.
Collaboration over isolation
Work with qualified institutions, clinicians, researchers, educators, agencies, and nonprofit partners.
Stewardship and independence
Protect the Institute’s charitable purpose through separate governance, finances, records, and decisions.
LEGAL AND OPERATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
Clear separation protects the mission.
ISO Metrik Institute, Inc. is a separate nonprofit corporation from ISO Metrik Solutions, Inc. The Institute maintains independent governance and finances and makes decisions through its Board of Directors.
Any collaboration with a related or commercial organization must further the Institute’s exempt purposes, be negotiated at arm’s length, reflect fair-market value, receive appropriate review by disinterested directors, and avoid improper private benefit.