Pisa, 15 October 2024 – From pioneer to pioneer, in a crucial field for the enormous and positive effects on the quality of life of many patients: the telerehabilitation of disorders and disabilities in developmental age. Giuseppina Sgandurra, associate professor at the University of Pisa and Head of INNOVATE – Laboratory of INNOVATIVE Technologies in Neurorehabilitation at the IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, on the occasion of the 52nd SIMFER National Congress (Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine) which recently took place in Padua, received a very important recognition, the one dedicated to Prof. Lamberto Piron, an authentic an international pioneer in rehabilitation.
Researcher at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Boston, as well as Director of the «New Technologies and Rehabilitation» and «Telemedicine and Rehabilitation» research lines, Piron was Head of the «Robotics Laboratory and Cinematics” and Director of a research unit at the IRCCS San Camillo in Venice.
A prestigious name to which an equally prestigious award is dedicated which this year was awarded to the professor Giuseppina Sgandurra for his studies on telerehabilitation of disorders and disabilities in developmental age. A consecration for the professor who has dedicated her research in this area, becoming a European and international point of reference.
Professor of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Professor Sgandurra has distinguished herself for the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to pediatrics through AInCP projectwhich aims to develop AI-based clinical tools to aid functional diagnosis and home tele-rehabilitation of upper limbs in children with cerebral palsy.
But there are many studies coordinated by her with her staff: among these we remember the part dedicated to children of the “Fit4 Medical Robotics” project of the National Plan Complementary to the PNRR, the results of which were presented in Padua, concerning a new rehabilitation model with robots and technologies.
