IRCCS E. Medea dell’Associazione “La Nostra Famiglia”

ADDRESS

Via don Luigi Monza, 1 – 22037 Ponte Lambro (Co), Italy

FOUNDED

1985

FIELD

Rehabilitation medicine

PHONE

+39 03187711 (switchboard)

EMAIL

medea@lanostrafamiglia.it

WEB

www.emedea.it

SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR

Maria Teresa Bassi

The Scientific Institute, IRCCS Eugenio Medea, is the scientific section of the Association “La Nostra Famiglia” a no-profit organization dedicated to promote and safeguard health care, education and services for young people with special needs, through a network of 28 Rehabilitation Centers located in Italy, China, Equador, Brasil and South Sudan. Since 1985, the hospital has been an Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Health Care (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico – IRCCS), devoted to neurorehabilitation of child and adolescent motor, psychological and cognitive disabilities. Due to the age of the patients and to the complexity of the cases treated, the cure and care processes are performed through an holistic approach to the medical condition including psychoeducational and social interventions on the patients and their families to achieve the greatest possible functional recovery of the patients.

The Institute has 4 branches in Italy:

• Bosisio Parini – Lombardy (Headquarters)

• Conegliano and Pieve di Soligo – Veneto

• San Vito al Tagliamento and Pasian di Prato – Friuli Venezia Giulia

• Brindisi – Apulia

Clinical and research activities

• 178 hospital beds (130 RO + 48 DH)

• Over 35000 patients are followed every year, with inpatients and outpatients activities. The clinical, rehabilitation and research activities focus on a wide set of neurological and psychiatric developmental disorders including:

• Neurodegenerative and neuromuscular disorders, Cerebral and Cerebellar malformations;

• Epilepsy;

• Cerebral palsy and acquired brain injuries;

• Intellectual disability;

• Neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, dyslexia and language disorders ADHD, eating disorders.

Research areas

1. Child neurology rehabilitation: rare diseases of central and peripheral nervous systems and brain injuries: from diagnosis to rehabilitation.

2. Psycopathology of the neurodevelopmental age: rehabilitation/abilitation treatments; neuropsycobiology, social/environmental issues and quality of life.

3. Genetic, computational and pharmacological aspects of neurorehabilitation.

4. Innovation technologies in rehabilitation, mental health and human well-being