Professor Roberto Gatti is the Physiotherapy Unit Director in Humanitas Research Hospital.
He became physiotherapist in 1985 at the University of Milan (Italy). In 1996 he got the licénce en kinésithérapie et réadaptation at the Catholique University of Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) and, in 2009, the Master of sciences in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Florence (Italy).
Medical areas of interest
Motor rehabilitation
Previous experience
- Didactic coordinator of Physiotherapy degree programme of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
- Group Leader of the Motor Function Analysis and Rehabilitation Laboratory of the Department of Neuroscience of San Raffaele Hospital
- Head of physiotherapy at San Raffaele Hospital
Research areas of interest
Research lines of Professor Gatti are mainly addressed on Biomechanics and Neurorehabilitation, with a focus on the effects of cognitive facilitations (i.e. action observation) on motor relearning of subjects with lesion at the central nervous system. As Biomechanics research lines his interest is focused on the study of anticipatory postural adjustments and their coordination with the agonist component of movement.
Teaching experience
Associated Director of the Physiotherapy degree programme of Humanitas Research Hospital since 2016.
