John DeLuca, Ph.D., and Massimo Filippi, M.D., chair ENS-AAN teaching course in Prague
West Orange, NJ. June 1, 2012. John DeLuca, PhD, of Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ, and Massimo Filippi, MD, of University Ospedale San Raffaele Milan, Italy, present the joint ENS-AAN teaching course Neuroimaging Correlates of Neuropsychological Impairment at the 22nd European Neurological Society (ENS) Meeting. The course, which covers multiple sclerosis, dementia, movement disorders and focal lesions of the right hemishere, will be held on Sunday, June 10, from 8:00-11:30 a.m. The ENS Meeting is being held June 9-12 at the Prague Congress Centre in Prague, Czech Republic. The Meeting fosters the exchange of new research between academic neurologists and neuroscientists in a wide spectrum of topics in neurology and related fields.
John DeLuca, PhD, VP of Research, specializes in disorders of memory and information processing in TBI and MS and has authored more than 200 articles, books, and chapters in these areas. His collaborative work in cognitive rehabilitation extends to Italy, Spain and China. He is currently on sabbatical at the Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome, where he is conducting research on neuroimaging findings in MS. He is the editor of five recent books, including the Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Dr. DeLuca is also a professor in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Neurology & Neurosciences at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School.
Dr Filippi, Director of the Neuroimaging Research Unit at the University Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, Italy, is involved in numerous research projects aimed at improving, through the use of magnetic resonance (MR) structural and functional understanding of the mechanisms that lead to the accumulation of irreversible physical disability and cognitive impairment in various neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis and other white matter diseases, Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, vascular disorders and migraine.
Provided by Kessler Foundation
