We are honored to present Dr. Matilde Leonardi as Key Note Session speaker at the Rehabilitation International World Congress 2021 in Aarhus, Denmark.

Dr. Leonardi will deliver a key note on the congress topic Rehabilitation as a Life-Long Health Strategy. The session will highlight global examples of professional initiatives and living with rehabilitation, either your whole life or for the rest of your life.

About Matilde Leonardi

Neurologist, pediatrician, neonatologist, child neurologist. Specialized in Bioethics. As Director of Unit at National Neurological Institute Besta she is developing and carrying out research projects related to neurology, chronic diseases and employment, disability, ageing, public health, ICF (WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) and WHO-DAS 2.0, neurorehabilitation and burden of neurological disorders. 

She is a WHO expert on disability and ageing, co-chair of the WHO-FIC (Family of International Classifications) Functioning and Disability Reference Group- FDRG and Director of the Italian WHO Collaborating Centre Research Branch. 

Since 1995, she has been working with the WHO on ICF development and implementation and has been co-chair of the WHO ICF children’s group for ICF-CY children’s version development. Coordinator and partner of several, EU- and non EU-funded research projects. 

Dr. Leonardi is a consultant on public health, UNCRPD monitoring and disability policy development for several European and extra European Governments. Expert for the European Commission on public health, ageing, disability and neurosciences. Professor on annual contracts of Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Disability and member of the Board of Directors of the Bioethics Centre at the Catholic University of Milan since 2007. 

In 2014, she passed the national evaluation as Associate Professor of Neurology and in 2015 as Associate as well as Full Professor of Rehabilitation. Dr. Leonardi is the author of more than 250 scientific publications.