Travelogue Italia: Documenting Travel with a Disability on My Way to a Conference on Travel With a Disability

With discussion of the Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights fresh in my mind and the situation of Rajeev Rajan recently in my writing I fly early tomorrow from San Jose, California to Milan, Italy to address the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute's conference on travel and disability "Neurology in the Third Millennium."

Below is the final schedule of the conference Neurology in the Third Millennium:

Scientific Program

Friday 17 April 2009

08.45    Opening
    Ferdinando Cornelio, Scientific Committee coordinator

9.00    Roberto Formigoni, President of the Region Lombardia
    Alessandro  Moneta, President of the Neurological Institute Carlo Besta
    Fernando Antonio Compostella, Director of the Health Services Agency,  Region Veneto
    Giuseppe Deleo, General Director, Neurological Institute Carlo Besta, Milan
    Carlo Sangalli, President of Confcommercio


9.30 - 1° Session

Chairperson: Carlo Vergani, Professor of Geriatrics and gerontology, University of Milan

Neurology in the third millennium: epidemiological and anthropological analysis
Ferdinando Cornelio, Scientific Director Istitute Carlo Besta, Milan

Weakness of the world becoming older and function of the rehabilitation
Massimo Fini, Scientific Director Institute S. Raffaele Pisana, Rome

Disability and participation related to ICF classification
Matilde Leonardi, SOSD Public Health and Disability, Neurological Institute Carlo Besta, Milan


10.30 - Coffee-break

10.50 - 2° Session

Worldwide problems on disabilities
Deng Pufang, Chairman China Disabled People's Federation*

Inclusive Tourism - Participant/Observer notes on the global paradigm shift towards solutions
Scott Paul Rains, D. Min, Publisher of RollingRains.com, Founder of Tour Watch Inclusive Tourism Network

Accessible tourism - for life quality and a sustainability
L. Müller, President of the European Network for Accessible Tourism, ENAT


12.00 - Institutions

Maurizio Sacconi, Italian Ministry of Health and Welfare
Giulio Boscagli, Head of Family and Social Solidarity Department, Region Lombardia
Sandro Sandri, Head of Healthcare Department, Region Lombardia

13.00 - Lunch


* officially invited

14.30 - 3° Session

Chiarperson: M. Imbriani, Scientific Director Maugeri Foundation, Pavia

Disability and disease: the physiatrist for needs and opportunities definition
Giuseppe Filippi, Director of the Regional Rehabilitation Department, Region Veneto

Persons' measurement and functional evauation: the ground rules
Luigi Tesio, Professor of Medical Rehabilitation, University of Milano

Chaos of measurements: overview on rehabilitation
Donatella Bonaiuti, Director of Rehabilitation Department, S. Gerardo Hospital, Monza

Patient/citizen and accessible tourism: what is important to know?
Graziella Filippini, SOSD Neuroepidemiology, Neurological Institute Carlo Besta, Milan

15.50 - Conclusions
Luciano Bresciani, Head of Healthcare Department, Region Lombardia


16.00 Coffee-break


16.15 - 4° Session

Chairperson: Mario Carletti, Director I.N.A.I.L. (Italian National Workers Compensation Authority)

Leisure time and rehabilitation in disability
Paolo Cornelio, Scientific Direction Neurological Institute Carlo Besta, Milan

Accessible tourism as a tool for neurorehabilitation
Carlo Puppo, ANGLAT President - Luigi Passetto - ANGLAT Delegate

Optimism comes from accessibile tourism
Roberto Vitali, President of Village for All

Quality of life in illness causing severe disability: utopia or reality?
Mario Melazzini, President of AISLA (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Italian Association)


17.45 - Discussion


 

Saturday 18th April 2009


9.30 - ROUND TABLES

1° Session: Experiences comparison in rehabilitation, leisure time and quality of life

Coordinator: Paolo Del Debbio

Fernando Antonio Compostella, Director of the Health Services Agency,  Region Veneto

Alliance for clinical and rehabilitation neurosciences
Giampiero Merati, Professor of Physiology, University of Milano and Sports Medicine Department, Don Gnocchi Foundation
Leontino Battistin, Scientific Director Institute S. Camillo, Venice
Giacomo Bazzini, Head of Occupational therapy, Maugeri Foundation, Pavia



2° Session: Accessible tourism: well-being in disability

Coordinator: Armando Peres, Tourism Department - Italian Govern Cabinet

Alberto Lalli, Thermal Research Centre, Abano terme
Pier Gianni Prosperini, Head of Youth, Sport and Tourism department, Region Lombardia
Elisabetta Favaro, AISM  (Multiple sclerosis Italian association)
Alberto Corti, Directot of Federviaggio
Scott Paul Rains, D. Min, Publisher of RollingRains.com, Founder of Tour Watch Inclusive Tourism Network


13.00 Closing remarks - M. Brambilla, Secretary of the Italian Govern Cabinet, Tourism Department