Delegate: ASSIREM Associazione Scientifica Italiana per la Ricerca e l’Educazione nella Medicina del Sonno (Italian Scientific Association for Research and Education in Sleep Medicine)
Affiliations: IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Activity:
Open event. Distribution of educational brochure especially on the following topics:
– insomnia: how it is perceived patients and how it can be measured and treated
. sleep apneas as risk factors for diseases and in daily life
– sleep in children: management and prevention
– sleep and food: how they are related and how to prevent weight gain and loss and other methabolic disorders by caring sleep
The fiction writer and pharmaco-chemist Francesco Troccoli, author of a trilogy on “the sleepness universe”, will participate to promote nurturing of life talking about sleep in the literature.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1402467069824502/
On March 21, 2017, there will be a Concert hold by the “JuniOrchestra” – Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome. The concert will be preceded by a short introduction of ASSIREM activities and by a presentation on sleep disorders in children given by Pierluigi Innocenti, Neurologist and ASSIREM President.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1832994793621339/
Location: Rome, Piazza del Popolo from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Date: March 17, 2017, March 21, 2017
Submitted by: Maria Gabriella Buzzi
Short Bio:
1984: Medical Doctor Degree (University Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
1988: Neurology Specialty Degree (University Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
1993: PhD Degree (Neurobiology) (University Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
1987-1990: Research Fellow MGH-Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
1993-2002: Neurology Department and Headache Clinic, Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy
2002-until now: Neurologist at Post-Coma Neurorehabilitation Unit and Headache Out-patient Service, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
2007-2010: General Secreatry SISC (Società Italiana per lo Studio delle Cefalee – Italian Society for the Study of Headaches)
2011-until now: President of the Committee “Pain-free Hospital” at IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
2014-until now: General Secretary ASSIREM (Associazione Scientifica Italiana per la Ricerca e l’Educazione nella Medicina del Sonno – Italian Scientific Association for Research and Education in Sleep Medicine)
Scientific Publication (as from PubMed): 87.
ASSIREM /www.assirem.it, facebook: assirem) is a non-profit multidisciplinary association that involves not only medical doctors, either performing clinical or research activity, but also biologists, nurses, pychologists, therapist as well as writers, lawyers, journalists, lay association representative and any others who are interested in promoting adequate education and research in the field of sleep. ASSIREM involves for its purposes also public as well as private institutions. ASSIREM is an affiliated member of AIMS (Associazione Italiana per la Medicina del Sonno – Italian Association for Sleep Medicine, www.sonnomed.it).
