Professor Bruno Bernardini is the Neurological Rehabilitation Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital.
Medical areas of interest:
Rehabilitation in acute-subacute phase of disabled patients for neurological diseases (stroke, cranial-encephalic and medullary trauma, tumours of the nervous system, neuropathies). Hospital risk of fragile elderly patients. Orthogeriatrics.
Research areas of interest:
Post-operative rehabilitation indicators and process-outcome measures for patient prognostic stratification and clinical performance evaluation.
He is the coordinator of a multicentre study for the application of process-outcome indicators in rehabilitation. The study involves hospital and extra-hospital facilities in Lombardy, Liguria and other regions of Central and Northern Italy.
Previous experience:
- 2005-2007 Galliera Hospital Authority, Genoa, Italy.
Director of the Functional Recovery structure.
Member of the work group for defining the Regional Plan of rehabilitation work 2006-2009 in the Liguria region.
Evaluation, treatment and facilitation of care processes in patients in Neurology, Intensive Care, Neuro-surgery, Intermediate Care, Orthopaedic and Home Care.
Outpatient work as a physiatric specialist, with a specific sector on the rehabilitation of the pelvic floor.
Development of processes in diagnostic and therapeutic hospital care (especially lumbar-sciatica, joint replacements, cardiac failure, femur fractures and most fast-track urological operations). - 1988-1995 Hospital of Niguarda, Milan, Italy
Visiting doctor at the Centre for High Specialisation in Allergology and Clinical Immunology with full-time specialisation in the Department of Pneumology Piazza.
Teaching experience:
Medicine Professor at the University of Genoa.
Scientific activities:
Member of the board of directors and Geriatric area contact person at “Italian Urodynamic Society Continence, Neuro-Urology, Pelvic Floor”
