To discuss the PhD thesis in COVID-19 times…a bittersweet taste.

While Italy was already struggling with the epidemic of COVID-19, the U.S. was not yet, and the 14th ISPRM World Congress (together with the 53rd AAP annual meeting) was held in Orlando with some reduced participation from Europe but not from the U.SAbout 2,300 people attended the meeting. At the end of the conference, however, colleagues had been called back to their universities and hospitals.

Cochrane Rehabilitation hosted its 4th Methodology Meeting “Randomised Controlled Trials Rehabilitation Checklist (RCTRACK) Consensus Conference” in Orlando, Florida, on March 3–4. Participants were all Executive Committee members of RCTRACK: 

On November 25, a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Maria Gabriella Ceravolo, Chair of the Residency Program in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of the Università Politecnica delle Marche, and Stefano Negrini, Director of Cochrane Rehabilitation. This agreement states the role of the Residents in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in the Cochrane Rehabilitation ebook production. 

In occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the launch of Cochrane rehabilitation, Francesca Gimigliano, the Chair of Cochrane Rehabilitation Communication Committee, interviewed Maria Chiara Carrozza, the Scientific Director of Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi. Find here the full interview

The 96th Annual Conference of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) took place in Chicago from November 3 to 8.

On November 6, a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Hans Rietman, President of the Netherlands Society of Rehabilitation Medicine, and Stefano Negrini, Director of Cochrane Rehabilitation.

An unprecedented situation of civil unrest in Chile last week led to the first ever cancellation of the Cochrane Colloquium scheduled to take place October 22–26 in Santiago. Governing Board members made the official call to cancel at 11 a.m. local time on October 20, when it became clear they could not predict how the violent protests would develop. They were not willing to put conference delegates in danger.

The fall meeting of ESPRM and the UEMS PRM Section took place on September 5-7, in the historical city of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), hosted by Elena Ilieva, co-chair of Cochrane Rehabilitation Education Committee, and Chair of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Plovdiv, where she is also Vice Dean.

The Second World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Rehabilitation 2030 Meeting took place at the WHO headquarters in Geneva July 8-9 2019.