Need Institute Foundation was created in April 2017. This no profit Foundation main objective is to improve well-being of patients suffering from neurological diseases. At the same time we are daily committed in supporting young researchers to promote research in the Neurosciences field in order to have beneficial effects on treatment and rehabilitation of neurological diseases.
PRESIDENT
FRANCESCA MANCINI
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Francesca Mancini, after specializing in Neurology, obtained a PhD in “Neurological and Neuropsychic Sciences”. Subsequently she gained her work experience in various neurological centers, including the IRCCS Italian Auxological Institute of Milan. She also organizes and participates in training courses, seminars and conferences related to movement Disorders, both for healthcare personnel and for patients and their caregivers. She currently works as Neurologist Consultant of the Italian Diagnostic Center, of the San Carlo Clinic in Paderno Dugnano and of the Personal Services Company of the milanese Martinitt and Stelline Institutes and Pio Albergo Trivulzio. She Is Medical Director of the Parkinson Care Telemedicine Service of careApt.
She is attending the School of Specialization in Psychotherapy with Psychosomatic address.
Francesca Mancini, after specializing in Neurology, obtained a PhD in “Neurological and Neuropsychic Sciences”. Subsequently she gained her work experience in various neurological centers, including the IRCCS Italian Auxological Institute of Milan. She also organizes and participates in training courses, seminars and conferences related to movement Disorders, both for healthcare personnel and for patients and their caregivers. She currently works as Neurologist Consultant of the Italian Diagnostic Center, of the San Carlo Clinic in Paderno Dugnano and of the Personal Services Company of the milanese Martinitt and Stelline Institutes and Pio Albergo Trivulzio. She Is Medical Director of the Parkinson Care Telemedicine Service of careApt.
She is attending the School of Specialization in Psychotherapy with Psychosomatic address.
Founders and General
Council members
Dr. Ernesto Panza
Dr. Emanuele Panza
Dr. Massimo Corbo
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Prof.ssa Laura Calzà
Neurobiology and Pre-clinical studies expert
Dott. Sandro Iannaccone
Head of the Cognitive-Motor Neurological Disorders Rehabilitation Unit of the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and President of the Scientific Society of Rehabilitation (SSR).
Dr. Marco Feligioni
Neuropharmacology and Translational
Medicine expert
WELL-DESERVING MEMBERS COMMITTEE
Need Institute Foundation’s statute provides the setting up of the Well-deserving Members Committee composed by the Foundation’s benefactors, whose function is to contribute in formulating proposals in accordance with the social and cultural principles underlying the certificate of incorporation and the statute.
Well-deserving members are appointed by General Council for the moral, scientific and economic contribution provided in developing Foundation’s initiatives.
Currently the Committee consists of:
President Dr. Giuseppe Camera
President of Associazione Slanciamoci
Dr. Georgia Garuti
Member of Amalour Foundation London – UK
Dr.ssa Angelica Sella
President of Fondazione Sella – Biella
DIRECTOR
Dr. Massimo Caprino
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