PEOPLE

Researcher team

Dr. Rocco Salvatore Calabrò, with a good experience on Neurorehabilitation with regard to stroke, will coordinate the team.
The team will benefit from the support of staff from the Nurorehabilitation Units of the Center, to which Dr Leo (the CoPI, skilled in innovative technology and neuromodulation) belongs. Dr Garzon, supported by the multi-professional team of her IRCCS, will assure the expertise for speech and cognitive treatments.

Dr Celesti, supported by his coworkers, will be involved in ICT and HTA management.
Of interest, the project will be performed in two different Italian districts (i.e. Messina and Venice, which are located in the South and North of Italy, respectively, and have different territorial geography and healthcare systems) so to better evaluate the feasibility of the system and give more reliable data that could be somehow generalized to the Italian territory and

The University of Messina has been founded in 1548 by Ignazio di Loyola; it’s among the oldest universities in Italy.

Its members come not only from Messina, but also from Calabria and moreover from abroad.

This institute is a Health Research Body situated in Messina. It has its own mission in the field of “neuroscience in the field of prevention, recovery and treatment of severe acquired neurological injuires”.

This aims are pursued through the synergy between research activities, health care of high speciality, technological innovation and advanced training.

The IRCCS San Camillo of Venice is a health structure with 109 beds meanly dedicated to the rehabilitation of head and spinal trama, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and neuropatients: it carries out neurological rehabilitation activities.