Webinar – Digital Technologies for Children and Young People

Paul Dimitri is the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Children’s Specialty Lead, the Director of the NIHR Children & Young People MedTech Co-operative, and the Clinical Director for the National Technology Innovation Transforming Child Health (TITCH) Network. Paul has led on the development and implementation of national technology networks that specifically focus on the development and adoption of technology for paediatrics and child health through private and public sector collaboration. Paul currently works at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust UK, as a Professor of Child Health, Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Director of Research & Innovation.

Maria Luisa Lorusso received her Master degree in General and Experimental Psychology at the University of Padua in 1990. She then specialized in Developmental Neuropsychology at University “La Sapienza”, Rome. In 2001 she received a second Master degree in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL) at University of Groningen (NL), and at the same university she received her Ph.D. in Developmental Neuropsychology, with a dissertation on Neuropsychological factors in the rehabilitation of Developmental Dyslexia. From 1994 to 1996 she followed training courses at ICELP (Jerusalem International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential), in I.E. Instrumental Enrichment and L.P.A.D. (Learning Potential Assessment Device) and got her Trainer certificates.

Since 1993 she is Head of the Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology Unit at Scientific Institute “IRCCS E. Medea”, in Bosisio Parini, Italy. Her specific appointments include supervision of the clinical activity of the Unit of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology (neuropsychological assessment of preschool and school-age children) and coordination of the research activity in the area of aetiology, prevention and treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders (especially learning and language disorders) and the environmental factors affecting mental health.

Principal investigator and partner for several national and international projects, in the last years her interests have been focused on new web-based technologies and e-health approaches to developmental disorders. She has been lecturing in various Italian universities and is author of over 100 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Silvia Busti Ceccarelli is a psychologist and psychotherapist and she collaborates with IRCCS E. Medea – in Developmental Psychopathology area led by Massimo Molteni- as researcher since 2013. Her research interest focuses on Neurodevelopmental disorders. She is also involved in clinical activities such as diagnostic process and intervention with parents that need a psychological support. She is also part of an innovative lab – Smart lab led by Paola Colombo – that aims to integrate clinical tradition with digital innovation. 

She strongly believes in the value of the encounter between clinical activity and research. 

She collaborates with Università Bicocca in Milano as assistant professor, she is a contract professor at Università of Bergamo and she is tutor at the Psychotheraphy Integrated school in Bergamo.