Francesca Cecchi, nata a Firenze il 6/4/1966, residente  Firenze in Viale Petrarca 122

Formazione: Diploma Scuola Superiore Americana Patrick Henry High VA, USA (A with honour). Diploma Liceo Classico Galileo Firenze (60/60); Laurea Medicina e Chirurgia (110/110 L), specialista in Medicina Fisica e Riabilitativa - MFR (70/70 L), specialista in Geriatria (70/70 L), Università di Firenze; Master in Patologia Vertebrale dell'adulto e dell'adolescente, Istituto Italiano di Studi sulla Colonna Vertebrale, Milano; Corso di Perfezionamento in Medicina Manuale, Università di Siena (70/70 L); diploma Formazione post-laurea sugli strumenti di biomeccanica e realtà virtuale nel campo della riabilitazione dell'ictus, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spagna (100/100).

Posizione attuale: Professore Associato Medicina Fisica e Riabilitativa; vicedirettore Scuola di Specializzazione in Medicina Fisica e Riabilitativa, Università di Firenze: insegnamenti CdL Fisioterapia, Scienze Motorie, Tecniche Ortopediche, Medicina e Chirurgia; Scuola Spec. MFR, Reumatologia. Membro del Collegio dei Docenti del Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Cliniche, Patologia e clinica dell’apparato locomotore e dei tessuti calcificati. Dirigente medico SODc Riabilitazione Generale, AOUC – IRCCS FdG. Referente per IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi IVN- Malattie Cerebrovascoalri, Rete Italiana Neuroscienze e Neuroriabilitazione.

Società Scientifiche: Consigliere Nazionale SIRN; socio WFNR; ISPRM Clinical Sciences and Research Committee member; Segretario Nazionale Sezione Ictus SIMFER; delegato ai rapporti con Università SIMFER Toscana; socio SIGG.

Attività didattica pregressa: Università di Firenze (2004-2020): Professore ac CdL Fisioterapia, CdL Scienze Motorie, LM Scienze e Tecniche dello Sport; LM Attività motoria preventiva, Master in Riabilitazione in Reumatologia. Università di Scutari, Albania (2010-2017): Docente Riabilitazione geriatrica, CdL Fisioterapia.

Editorial board e revisione: Editorial board: International Journal of Environmental Researchand Public Health, sezione "Disabilities" (Q1); European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (Q1); Geriatrics (Q3), Cochrane Newsletter Editor. Cochrane’s Corner Author.

Attività scientifica: Responsabile scientifico Laboratorio congiunto DMSC- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi (FdG) di Ricerca in “PROtocolli e MISurE di outcome in Medicina Riabilitativa PROMISE@LAB https://www.unifi.it/vp-2609-elenco-laboratori-congiunti.html#promiselab; https://www.dongnocchi.it/ricerca-scientifica/i-centri-irccs/irccs-don-gnocchi-firenze/promise-lab;  conduce ricerca sulla riabilitazione della disabilità complessa associata a patologie neurologiche (Stroke, Parkinson) e ortopediche (Frattura femore, Back Pain),sulla promozione dell'Healthy Aging. Focus: innovazione tecnologica in riabilitazione; validazione di misure di outcome cliniche e strumentali e di protocolli innovativi di riabilitazione e promozione healthy aging; analisi dei fattori predittivi di risposta al trattamento. Partecipa a studi multicentrici nazionali e internazionali; PI di 26 Progetti di Ricerca Corrente IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi, coordinatore WP/task di progetti Rete IRCCS Neuroscienze e Neuroriabilitazione e Rete Aging. PI di progetti finanziati da bandi competitivi nazionalie e internazionali. Ha pubblicato oltre 200 documenti scientifici, inclusi testi universitari e oltre 100 lavori di rilevanza internazionale. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7410-0325 View this author’s ORCID profile

 Posizione corrente

Specializzazioni

Laurea

Scuola secondaria

Formazione continua obbligatoria Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi

Corsi di Perfezionamento Universitari pre-laurea

Corsi di Perfezionamento Universitari post-lauream e Master

Altri Corsi post-universitari - FORMAZIONE CLINICA, ACCADEMICA E MANAGERIALE

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Percorsi Diagnostico Terapeutici Assistenziali

Attività Didattica Pregressa

Altra Attività Didattica

Ricerca finanziata: bandi competitivi (Grants UNIFI e IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi); progetti di Rete Nazionale IRCCS

Altre Collaborazioni Scientifiche nazionali e Internazionali

Gruppi di Studio Nazionali e Internazionali

Sviluppo e validazione di protocolli di trattamento innovativi in Medicina Riabilitativa, incluso studio di tecniche fisioterapiche e protocolli per la riabilitazione del linguaggio e neurocognitive, e l’utilizzo di tecnologie innovative, come robotica, realtà aumentata, realtà virtuale, teleriabilitazione, ricerca su esercizio terapeutico e neuroplasticità.

Sviluppo e validazione di misure di outcome elinico-funzionali, di laboratorio e strumentali, incluse le misure robot-derivate.

Identificazione di fattori predittivi e biomarcatori della risposta al trattamento e di healthy ageing, esplorando parametri clinico-funzionali, strumentali (inclusi analisi del movimento e parametri neurofisiologici) e di laboratorio (inclusi biomarcatori neurogenetici e lo studio studio dei processi cellulari tramite le nanotecnologie).

Francesca Cecchi, born in Florence on 6/4/1966, resident Florence, Viale Petrarca 122

Best Education: Diploma American High School Patrick Henry High VA, USA (A with honor). Diploma Liceo Classico Galileo Florence High School (60/60); Degree in Medicine and Surgery (110/110 L), specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (70/70 L), specialist in Geriatrics (70/70 L), University of Florence; Master's Degree in Adult and Adolescent Vertebral Pathology, Italian Institute of Spine Studies, Milan; Postgraduate Course in Manual Medicine, University of Siena (70/70 L); Postgraduate training on biomechanics tools and virtual reality in the field of stroke rehabilitation, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain (100/100).

Current position: Associate Professor Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine; Deputy Director School of Specialization in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Florence: teaching Degree Courses: Medicine and Surgery, Physiotherapy, Motor Sciences, Orthopedic Techniques, ; Specialization Schools: MFR, Rheumatology. Member of the Board of Lecturers of the PhD in Clinical Sciences, Pathology and Clinic of the Locomotor System and Calcified Tissues. Clinical activity: SODc General Rehabilitation, AOUC - IRCCS FdG. Referent for IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi IVN- Malattie Cerebrovascolari, Italian Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Network.

Scientific Societies: SIRN National Board; WFNR member; ISPRM Clinical Sciences and Research Committee member; National Secretary Stroke Section, SIMFER; delegate to relations with University SIMFER Tuscany University; SIGG member.

Previous teaching activities: University of Florence (2004-2020): Adjunct Professor Physiotherapy, CdL Sport Sciences, LM Sport Sciences and Techniques; LM Preventive Motor Activities, Master in Rehabilitation in Rheumatology. University of Shkodra, Albania (2010-2017): Lecturer Geriatric Rehabilitation, CdL Physiotherapy.

Editorial board and review: Editorial board: International Journal of Environmental Researchand Public Health, "Disabilities" section (Q1); European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (Q1); Geriatrics (Q3), Cochrane Newsletter Editor. Cochrane's Corner Author.

Scientific Activity: Scientific Responsible Joint DMSC- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi (FdG) Research Laboratory in "PROTOCOLS AND MEASURE OF OUTCOME IN REHABILITATION MEDICINE - PROMISE@LAB, https://www.unifi.it/vp-2609-elenco-laboratori-congiunti.html#promiselab; https://www.dongnocchi.it/ricerca-scientifica/i-centri-irccs/irccs-don-gnocchi-firenze/promise-lab; conducts research on rehabilitation of complex disability associated with neurological (Stroke, Parkinson's) and orthopedic (Hip Fracture, Back Pain) diseases, and on promotion of Healthy Aging. Focus: technological innovation in rehabilitation; validation of clinical and instrumental outcome measures and innovative treatment protocols; analysis of predictive factors of treatment response. Participates in national and international multicenter studies; PI of 26 IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi Current Research Projects, WP/task coordinator of IRCCS Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Network and Aging Network projects. PI of projects funded by national and international competitive calls. She has published more than 200 scientific papers, including academic texts and more than 100 papers of international relevance. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7410-0325 View this author’s ORCID profile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

From February 08, 2022 to present

National scientific qualification as Professor of First Stage. Call 2021 (DD no. 553/2021), area 06/F4 with unanimous positive judgment.

From June 1, 2021 to present

from 20/05/2021 to present Scientific Responsible of the Research Laboratory : "PROTOCOLS and MEASUREMENTS of outcome in Rehabilitation Medicine - PROMISE@LAB. Joint Laboratory Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine (Referring Department) - IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS. (Note Prot. no. 125896 of 04/23/2021, DMSC Council, May 2021). From 01/03/2020 to present Associate Professor for the concurrent area 06/F4 (Locomotor Apparatus Diseases and Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Disciplinary Scientific Area MED/34 (Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine), Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Decree No. 1268, Year 2019, Prot. No. 185509. Deputy director of the School of Specialization in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Responsible for teaching organization and lectures; Responsible for tutors; Responsible for organizing events, conferences and congresses School of Specialization in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Florence .

From October 2019 to present Medical Director S.O.D. complex General Rehabilitation, Careggi University Hospital - IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi Florence. National Secretary Stroke Section Italian Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (SIMFER).

09/2015 to 05/2021 Head of Neuromotor Rehabilitation Research Laboratory (LABRIAN). IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi - Florence. from 01/01/2014 to 02/2020 Director of the O.S. of Neuromotor Rehabilitation. COD 56 and Ex art 26 (inpatient, semi-inpatient, outpatient and home) (78 PL inpatient) of the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation S. Maria alla Pineta Rehabilitation Center (Marina di Massa). Director of the O.S. of Neuromotor Rehabilitation. COD 56 and Ex art 26 (32 PL) of the S. Antonio Abate Specialist Hospital Center - don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation (Fivizzano). from 01/01/2014 to 2016 and from 01/03/2019 to 01/05/2019 Physician in charge of Intermediate Care. (20 PL) of the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Rehabilitation Center S. Maria alla Pineta (Marina di Massa). 10/2011 to 06/2012 Physician in charge of Orthopedic Rehabilitation, SOR Neuromotor Massa, don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Tuscany Pole. from 08/2003 to 08/2011 Physician in charge of branch of the Neuromotor Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinic. IRCCS don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation - Florence. 09/2001 to 09/2015 Coordinator Research Group in Orthopedic Rehabilitation. IRCCS don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation - Florence. from 08/01/2001 to 07/30/2003 Physician Assistant Outpatient Department of Neuromotor Rehabilitation. IRCCS don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation - Florence. from 01/09/1998 to 30/07/2001 Physician Assistant O.S. of Rehabilitation Spinal Pathologies, then Orthopedics II. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Rehabilitation Center, S. Maria agli Ulivi, Pozzolatico, Impruneta, Florence. 01/05/1997 to 01/09/1998 Collaborator for clinical (on-call doctor and volunteer trainee) and research activities. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Rehabilitation Center, S. Maria agli Ulivi, Pozzolatico, Impruneta, Florence. 02/02/1997From 02/02/1997to 04/30/1997 Researcher holding research contract and volunteer trainee specialist physician Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere scientifico - IRCCS Ospedale "I Fraticini" Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura Anziani (INRCA), Florence, Italy (Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital with neurological focus, university specialist training site). 01/11/1995 to 30/09/1996 Researcher holding research contract and volunteer trainee specialist physician Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico - IRCCS Ospedale "I Fraticini" Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura Anziani (INRCA), Florence, Italy (Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital with neurological focus, university specialized training site). 09/1991 to 12/1995 Physician in training specializing in Geriatrics Specialization in accordance with the standards of the European Economic Community, care and research activities at Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere scientifico - IRCCS Hospital "I Fraticini" Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura Anziani (INRCA) in Florence (Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital with neurological focus, university specialist training site).

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

National and European scientific qualifications.

Certificate of Fellowship by European standards, European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.

National scientific qualification as Professor of First Stage. Call 2021 (DD no. 553/2021), area 06/F4 with unanimous positive judgment.

National Scientific Habilitation to Professor of Second Order. Announcement 2021 (DD no. 553/2021), for sector 06/F4 with unanimous positive judgment. Specializations 10/2002 Specialization Diploma in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. University of Florence, grade 70/70 cum laude, specialization in accordance with the standards of the European Economic Community. 12/1995 Postgraduate Diploma in Geriatrics. University of Florence, grade 70/70 cum laude. Specialization in accordance with the norms of the European Economic Community. Degree 07/1991 Degree in Medicine and Surgery. University of Florence, grade 110/110 cum laude. Secondary School xxx Classical High School Diploma. Liceo Classico Galileo (Florence), grade 60/60. xxx High School Diploma Patrick Henry High School, Ashland, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Achieved at the end of the annual cultural exchange program run by Intercultura American Field Service, with highest honors (A, Graduated with honor). Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Mandatory Continuing Education 1998 to 02/2020 In compliance with Mandatory Continuing Education provided by don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation for employee (BLSD; Quality and Safety, Clinical Risk) and manager (worker safety, management training). Pre-Graduate University Continuing Education Courses. 1985 Cambridge Proficiency certificate for English language proficiency with highest marks (A grade), University of Cambridge, UK. 1984 Genetics course (karyotype determination), University of Virginia, Richmond, VA, USA. 1984 Pascal computer programming course, University of Virginia, Richmond, VA, USA. Post-graduate Advanced Courses. from 2002 to 2003 Postgraduate Course in Manual Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Siena. from 02/03/2019 to 21/05/2019 BRAIN4TRAIN_English: Training on Biomechanics and Virtual Reality tools in the field of Stroke Rehabilitation, Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain, Rated 100/100. 1998- Master Istituto Scientifico Italiano COlonna vertebrale - ISICO- Rehabilitation of patients with vertebral diseases: vertebral deformities of the adult and child, Istituto Scientifico Italiano COlonna vertebrale, Edi Ermes Milano

In compliance with the Mandatory Continuing Education provided by the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation for employee (BLSD; Quality and Safety, Clinical Risk) and manager (worker safety, management training). Other Postgraduate Courses - CLINICAL, ACADEMIC AND MANAGERIAL TRAINING.

2020 Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Training Course: How to write a successful Grant October 12-13, 2022. Milan, IRCCS S. Maria Nascente Center, via Capecelatro 66 Webinar Course: Bibliographic research in medicine: Pubmed and the online services of the Biomedical Library; 01/10/2020 Unifi. 2019 GIMBE Course Diagnostic Therapeutic Care Pathways PTDA II January 31-February 1, May 30-31, Milan, Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi. 2018 to 2019 Course The Quality and Safety Strategy of the Azienda USL Toscana Nordovest: course for Quality and Safety facilitator. Capannori, Viareggio. from 2018 to 2019 Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Intermediate Leaders and Managers Training Course: teamwork. Rome December 12-13, 2018, Florence January 9, 2019, Milan May 30-31. 2018 Certification of the correct use of the NIH Stroke Scale, Campus Biomedico Rome, April. 2018 Unilateral Space Negligence and hemianopsia, Fontanellato June 7, 2018. 2018 GIMBE Course - Diagnostic Therapeutic Pathways - PDTA February 2018 FDG Florence. 2017 Taking care: homogenization of clinical care pathways in Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi. Milan February 23-June 15. 2016 AIFOS course - Executive Training 16 Hours - don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation. 2010 Course: Development and use of Guidelines, Clinical Protocols and Diagnostic Therapeutic Pathways in Clinical and Research settings. Don Gnocchi Foundation and The Joint Commission, Milan November 5-6. 2009 Seminar: diagnostic therapeutic rehabilitation pathways - PDTR. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Rome, June 12, 2009. 2009 Course: don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation's national management training pathway. TESI

2009 Course: movement system dysfunction syndromes: functional diagnosis and treatment applied to the cervical spine and shoulder (Shirley Sahrmann, Washington University, S. Louis, USA). Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Pozzolatico June 14-15. 2009 The ICF classification in Italy 2001-2009. Erickson Study Center. Riva del Garda September 29-30. 2008 Course TESI: National management training course of the don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation - Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan. 2008 Course: movement system dysfunction syndromes: functional diagnosis and treatment applied to the lumbar spine and lower limb (Shirley Sahrmann Washington University, S. Louis, USA). Pozzolatico June 14-15 (I module) and September 20-21 (II module). 2007 Thesis course in management training: leadership - Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan. 2001 Theoretical-practical course: scoliosis and curved back in developmental age, Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi, Centro S. Maria agli Ulivi, November, Pozzolatico. 1998 Two-day refresher course in Angiology, Florence, CTO. 1997 National Theoretical-Practical Course on Rehabilitation in Rheumatologic Diseases, Italian Society of Rheumatology, Florence. 1997 Level II Course in Manual Medicine, Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, S. Maria agli Ulivi Center, Pozzolatico. 1995 Transcranial Doppler Training Course, Italian Society of Neurosonology (SINS) Bologna.

PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue Italian Other languages COMPRISING SPEAKING WRITTEN PRODUCTION Listening Reading Interaction Oral Production English C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 C2 Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user - B1 and B2: Independent user - C1 and C2: Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages French A1 A2 A1 A1 A1 Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user - B1 and B2: Independent user - C1 and C2: Proficient user. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Organizational and management skills Proven interpersonal and organizational skills and competencies at work and outside work (volunteer, school) in teamwork and leadership of work and research groups, development of interdisciplinary collaborations and with national and international groups.

Digital skills SELF-EVALUATION Information processing Communication Content creation Security Problem solving Advanced user Advanced user Intermediate user Intermediate user. . Advanced to use Windows operating system, Office package. Basic for software programming Advanced to use ECO-Color Doppler ultrasound for angiologic diagnostics

B driver's license

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Clinical ACTIVITIES

from 01/03/2020 Clinical activity: SODc General Rehabilitation, AOUC Careggi- IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi Firenze, UO Rehabilitation Neurology -From June 1, 2021: Coordinator Sector Rehabilitation Neuromotor Level 0, Director Prof Claudio Macchi. From 2014 to 29/02/2020 Director SOR Neuromotor Foundation don Carlo Gnocchi Massa and Fivizzano): direct assistance and coordination of activities of collaborators in the care of patients in neuromotor rehabilitation in the following settings: inpatient COD 56, Ex art 26, semi-inpatient; outpatient and home care, for an annual volume of about 1100 patients in inpatient and semi-inpatient settings and 11000 territorial services (outpatient and home care), including patients with high complexity of care, with tracheotomy, minimally conscious state, assisted ventilation, artificial nutrition, dysphagia (since 2016, the Neuromotor SORs of the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation in Massa and Fivizzano have been included among the reference centers for the diagnosis and treatment of Dysphagia for Tuscany, ASL Northwest). from 2003 to 02/29/2020 First as Branch Physician in charge of Outpatient Neuromotor Rehabilitation Presidium don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation IRCCS Florence (until 2011), then of Orthopedic Rehabilitation (Marina di Massa) then from January 2014 to present of Director S.O. Rehabilitation at don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation in Marina di Massa, Director S.O. Rehabilitation and Health Management Delegate of Fivizzano, S. Antonio Abate Hospital Specialty Pole, and Medical Director of Intermediate Care, Marina di Massa, participated in the procedures related to the accreditation of the Presidium, including the reworking of the protocols of orthopedic, neurological, and respiratory intake and rehabilitation in code 56 settings, ex Article 26 outpatient and home care, outpatient specialty, and in intermediate care, and the processes related to Clinical Risk and Quality System. She also performs outpatient specialist activities and is a member of the Clinical Risk Group Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation IRCCS Florence. from 01/01/2014 to 2016 and from 01/03/2019 to 01/10/2019 and from 1998 to 2003 Physician in charge of Intermediate Care at the don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation- 20 pl (Low Care and Intermediate Care), Marina di Massa, for which she oversaw the caretaking pathway shared with ACOT Massa Carrara. Medical specialist at don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, performed ward activities, outpatient specialist visits, angiological diagnostics, Manual Medicine treatments. from 11/1991 to 12/1995 Resident in Geriatrics (Specialization in accordance with the norms of the European Economic Community), care and research activities at Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-IRCCS, Hospital "I Fraticini" Istituto Nazionale di Ricovero e Cura Anziani (INRCA) in Florence (Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital with neurological focus, university specialist training site). 02/1990 to 11/1991 Hospital volunteer internship, first as a student, then as a MD (July 1991), at Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico-IRCCS, Hospital "I Fraticini" ,National Institute for Hospitalization and Care of the Elderly (INRCA) in Florence, Italy (Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital with a neurological focus, site of university specialist training).

Diagnostic Therapeutic Care Pathways from 2013 to 2015 and 2019 Intermediate Care Pathways ASL 1. Delegate for Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Massa Center, to the definition and subsequent revisions of the PDTA for intermediate care with ACOT ASL 1 then ASL Toscana Nordovest d. 2013 to 2014 Activation Neuromotor Rehabilitation code 56 in ASL 1: delegated for don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation to the definition in the pathway of sending and taking care of patients in Neuromotor Rehabilitation code 56 in ASL 1 contextually to the opening of Neuromotor code 56 in Massa and Fivizzano. 2005 and 2014 Pathway 2: implementation. delegated for Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation to the definition of the PDTR (treatment protocol and mode of referral) of patients in pathway 2 DGR 595/2005 ASL 10, and in ASL 1 (Then ASL Toscana Nordovest) - implementation and subsequent revisions. 2011 Tuscany Region orthopedic rehabilitation pathways 2011:delegate for Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation for FDG to technical meetings in the Region, preliminary to the drafting of DGR 677/2011. 2004 Pathway for inclusion in Adapted Motor Activity programs for individuals with "hypomobility pain syndromes" - ASL Florence Member of the Working Group of the Florence Health Authority on the Adapted Motor Activity project for subjects with "hypomobility pain syndromes," preliminary to the drafting of DGR 595/2005, Pathway 1. 2003 Pathway for rehabilitative home care in the post-acute patient as branch manager of the Presidio Ambulatoriale di Riabilitazione Ambulatoriale di Riabilitazione Neuromotoria Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi IRCCS Firenze, delegated for Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi to draft an Operational Protocol for a pathway for rehabilitative home care in the post-acute patient in collaboration with Distretto 5 of ASL Firenze, the UF Cure Primarie of the Florence area and the UO Riabilitazione Funzionale of Florence. TEACHING ACTIVITIES

AA 2021-22-01/03/2021- Holder of the Teaching of Diseases of the Locomotor System CdL Fioterapia, Empoli campus, University of Florence. Member of the Board of Lecturers of the PhD in Clinical Sciences, Pathology and Clinic of the Locomotor Apparatus and Calcified Tissues. University of Florence. from 17/10/19 to present Associate Professor for the concurring area 06/F4 (Locomotor Apparatus Diseases and Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine), disciplinary scientific sector MED/34 (Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine) at the Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Decree no. 1268, Year 2019, Prot. no. 185509.

Teaching: Master's and Bachelor's degree programs. From 2020 to present Lecturer in the teaching Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of the Degree Course in Orthopedic Techniques, University of Florence Lecturer in the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine teaching of the Bachelor of Science in Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence. Lecturer in the teaching Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of the Bachelor of Science in Physical Medicine, University of Florence. From 2006 to present Lecturer in the teaching Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine of the Degree Course in Physiotherapy, University of Florence (from 2020 also location of Pistoia and Empoli - Empoli holder from 2021-22). Teaching: Graduate Schools from 2018 to present Lecturer in teaching Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine School of Specialization in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Florence Lecturer in teaching Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine School of Specialization in Rheumatology, University of Florence

Teaching: PhD AA 2020-21 13/11/2020 Lecturer Lecture Outcome measures in Rehabilitation Medicine. PhD in Bioengineering, Unipi-Scuola superiore Sant'Anna Pisa.

Previous Teaching Activities 2001 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2020 Lecturer in the teaching Methods and Didactics of Motor Activities 2, formerly Technical Theory and Didactics of Motor Activities, Bachelor of Science in Sport and Health, University of Florence. from 2009 to 2017 Lecturer in the teaching of Geriatric Rehabilitation (integrated course) of the Degree Course in Physiotherapy, State University of Shkodra Luigj Gurakuqi, Shkodra, Albania. from 2003 to 2017 Lecturer in the teaching of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Master Degree in Sports Science and Techniques and Preventive and Compensatory Motor Activities, University of Florence. from 2002 to 2003 Lecturer Nursing Postgraduate Course, geriatric area, University of Florence. 1992 to 1998 Lecturer in Hygiene, School of Podiatry, INRCA Florence. University Master's degrees from 2008 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2010 University Master Teacher in Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, University of Florence.

Other Teaching Activities 2019 Lecturer Departmental refresher course: Rehabilitation pathways: from the choice of setting to the global management of the pathway. Azienda USL Toscana Centro, Pistoia May 7. 2017 Lecturer Course: the Rehabilitation of Knee Implants for Physiotherapists in Shkodra Region. Madonnina del Grappa Scutari Albania June 22-23. 2013 Lecturer SIMFER National Refresher Course accredited ECM: Technologies to promote activity and participation Prato March 1-2. 2010 Lecturer CME accredited course: Difficult Pain. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Rovato November 27. 2003 Lecturer Corporate Training Project n.3277-15979: Theory and Mechanisms of Human Movement and its Implications in Therapeutic Exercise (accredited CME n.4 credits). Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Pozzolatico Center September 20, 2003. 1999 Lecturer Residential course in pediatric anatomy. G. Institute. Gaslini. Genoa: "functional anatomy of the knee." University of Chieti, International School of Pediatric Sciences, 1999. 1993 Lecturer Course "The Asymbolies: diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of communication disorders in the adult brain-injured." Lecture "The diagnosis of agrammatism." D. Foundation. C. Gnocchi, Pozzolatico, Florence, November 15-19, 1993. Lecturer Free Age University, Sesto Fiorentino: 1993: Lecture "Senile dementia." 1992 City of Florence, Retraining Course for Primary Care Workers, 1993: Lecture "Dementia: patient management." Lecturer Free Age University, Florence: 1992: Lecture "Continuing care: the Canadian model of elderly care." 1991 Lecturer Free Age University, Florence: 1991: lecture " Stress and aging, the glycocorticoid cascade hypothesis".

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Synthesis Carried out research activities since 1991, first as a Researcher at INRCA, I Fraticini Hospital, Florence, then, from 2001 to 2015, as Coordinator of Research Group in Orthopedic Rehabilitation and since 2015 as Head of Research Laboratory in Neuromotor Rehabilitation, at don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation IRCCS Florence and since May 2021 as Director of DMSC-IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi Joint Research Laboratory PROtocols and outcome MEASUREMS in Rehabilitation Medicine (PROMISE@LAB). National contact person for IRCCS don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation for National Virtual Institute of Cerebrovascular Diseases Italian Network of Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation IRCCS. She has collaborated in national and international research projects, has been and still is Principal Investigator (PI) of uni- and multicenter studies, including those arising from Current Research ministerial funding.

Research directions and transferability of results in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation The main research directions, documented by the publications carried out, and conducted also through national and international scientific collaborations, mainly concern orthopedic and neurological, neuromotor and neurocognitive rehabilitation, with clinical studies related to the development and validation of outcome measures and rehabilitation protocols, aimed at both pathologies of neurological origin, in particular Stroke rehabilitation as well as musculoskeletal, particularly musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation of rachialgia and femur fracture, and studies on predictive factors of response to rehabilitation treatment, and rehabilitation of the geriatric patient with complex disability and multimorbidity (musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiological, respiratory pathology), including the study of determinants of disability onset.

Funded research: competitive calls (Grants UNIFI and IRCCS Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi); Former60% DMSC funds; National IRCCS Network projects

for DMSC: Scientific DIrector of the project (PI)/Scientific referent of Research Unit/ WP Supbproject/task Coordinator:

Former 60% Funds PI Scientific Research Project (Funds ex 60%) University of Florence, 2022, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Title of research: COMBINED ROBOTIC, MOTOR AND COGNITIVE REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH HEMIPLEGY/EMIPARESIS AND UNILATERAL SPATIAL EMINEGLIGENCE.

PI Scientific Research Project (Funds ex 60%) University of Florence, 2023 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Research Title: INSTRUMENTAL MEASURES OF OUTCOME IN REHABILITATIVE MEDICINE.

Grants PI REDIRECT - A RandomizED controlled trial on the effects Induced by Robot-assisted rehabIlitation versus occupational therapy on the functional recovery of the upper limb in chronic post-strokE subjeCTs. Funding Entity Intesasanpaolo Bank Foundation. Coordinator DMSC (PI Francesca Cecchi), Participant FDG Florence (PI Chiara Castagnoli) and Milan (Marzia Bendoni) The project is aimed at the reduced functional recovery of the upper limb in post-stroke through an RCT. The proposed intensive rehabilitation involves either robotic rehabilitation treatment of the upper limb or occupational therapy-centered treatment. The short- and medium-term effects on functional, psychological outcomes and indicators of neuroinflammation and neuronal regeneration from blood serum analysis using an innovative method (RAMAN spectrophotometry) will be compared between the two groups and versus a control group (home exercise recommendations). Total funding € 166320.

Coordinator subproject 4 THE - Tuscany Health Ecosystem- Ecosystem of innovation on life sciences and technologies in Tuscany; Spoke 3 - Advanced technologies, methods and materials for human health and well-being Subproject 4 - Creating an accessible and innovative digital ecosystem for personalized and integrated diagnostic-therapeutic and rehabilitation pathways. Funding body Ministry of University and Research, in reference to mission 4 (Education and Research) of the NRP. PI Filippo Cavallo (DIEF, UNIFI) Spoke leader: UNIFI Affiliated partners: UNIPI, UNISI, UNISTRASI, SSSA, IMT, CNR, ESAOTE, Museo Galileo. The overall objective of Spoke 3 concerns the development and integration of advanced technologies for human health. Subproject 4 - Creating a Digital, Innovative and Friendly Ecosystem for Personalized and Integrated Diagnostic-Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Pathways refers to the development and implementation of an innovative digital diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic decision support system for personalized and integrated diagnostic-therapeutic pathways (IDTRPs) from acute care to rehabilitation and home care. Global funding € 110000000

WP6 Coordinator. Age-IT - A novel public-private alliance to generate socioeconomic, biomedical and technological solutions for an inclusive Italian aging society. Funding Body: Ministry of University and Research, Component 2 "From research to enterprise" of Mission 4 "Education and Research" of PNRR. Extended Partnership 8 consequences and challenges of aging. Total funding: 48,002,730. PI Daniele Vignoli (UNIFI lead partner) Partners: UNI Milano Bicocca, Piemonte Orientale, Padova, Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Bologna, Roma "La Sapienza", Napoli Federico II, "Aldo Moro" di Bari, Università della Calabria, "Luigi Bocconi", Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Vita San Raffaele), Molise, CNR, SISSA, ISTAT, INPS, IRCCS Neuromed, INRCA Tech4Care, Generali Italia, HealthWare Group, Beta 80 S.p.a. Software and Systems, Municipia Spa, Confcooperative, Sanofi. Challenge [3] Clinical and environmental factors, functional status and multimorbidity: Stratifying progression and prognosis of diseases, frailty and disability The project founds an alliance between the country's excellences studying aging, with the aim of providing research-based solutions, positioning Italy-which is among the countries with the oldest population in the world-at the center of international research on the topic. Total funding: € 48002730

Scientific Director of the Project (PI)/Scientific director (PI) of Research Unit/CLinical Principal Investigator for FDG.

PI RU FDG

WEARnCARE: a decision support system for personalized pathways in Parkinson disease Funding body European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, ODIN Open Call. Coordinator CoAImed srl (PI Erika Rovini); Participants: Don Gnocchi Research Hospital Firenze (PI Francesca Cecchi, Co-PI Gemma Lombardi), Italy Pilot deployment; Bozzolo Hospital (POTB). As part of RUC A1. "AI for Diagnosis," WEARnCARE aims to extend ODIN's footprint with a new mature pilot (Challenge 2), focused on PD and located in two Italian regions. Combining wearable IoT sensors and proprietary AI algorithms, WEARnCARE is a key enabling resource for assessing the motor skills of patients with PD during clinical evaluation neurological examinations. This procedure will positively affect the quality of care by dramatically reducing the subjectivity and variability of assessments. We expect, in addition, an improvement in the quality of life of patients and their caregivers, reducing costs to national health care systems. Total funding € 118956

Scientific Officer UdR FDG AGAPE - Active aGeing And Personalized service's Ecosystem. Funding Body: European Active & Assisted Living Program; call Ageing Well in the Digital World (AAL) 2021, Coordinator: MEDEA SrL, Florence. Participants: Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation (PI Francesca Cecchi), Umana Persone (ITALY), Senlab (Slovenia); Institute Of Science And Technology (Luxemburg); Carol Davila University Of Medicine And Pharmacy (Romania); Be-Com (Italy); Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra (Portugal). The project refers to the implementation of a set of person-centered services (AGAPE platform) that enables the adoption of innovation from the perspective of older adults, caregivers and care organizations. The expected outcomes and impacts aim to gather global evidence of Internet of Things-based services to improve inclusion, equity, and universal access to services. Global funding € 2,063,700

Principal investigator PERSONA - PERSONalized rObotic NeurorehAbilitation for patients with stroke outcomes. Funding body: Regione Toscana RESEARCH HEALTH 2018, Coordinator: Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa - Istituto di Biorobotica (PI Silvestro Micera). Participants: Institute of Neuroscience (IN) National Research Council (C.N.R), Pisa; Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation (RS Claudio Macchi, SP Francesca Cecchi); Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana. The objective of this clinical study is to identify, in patients with ischemic stroke evaluated in the acute phase and subsequently in the subacute and chronic phases, clinical-laboratory and neurophysiological parameters of sense-motor connectivity that can potentially be used as predictive biomarkers of response to robotic device-assisted rehabilitation treatment. The study will begin in September 2020 and will have a total duration of 24 months. The study will enroll 30 patients admitted c/o the Stroke Unit of the AOUP Neurology OU with clinical diagnosis and radiological evidence (CT or MRI) of ischemic stroke. The clinical trial will be conducted in compliance with the standards of Good Clinical Practice (Ministerial Decree, April 27, 1992) and subsequent amendments (Ministerial Decree, July 15, 1997 and Legislative Decree 211/2003). Total funding € 800000

IRCCS National Network Projects (RINN and Aging Network).

BIG MENTI - BIG-data and predictive MEdicine in the era of Personalized Stroke Treatments. Multicenter study of the National Network of Neuroscience IRCCSs (BIG-MENTI RIN). Funding entity: IRCCS Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Network (RIN) national cerebrovascular disease virtual institute. Coordinator: Policlinico Gemelli Foundation; Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation (Sandro Sorbi). The project aims to define and standardize information to be recorded related to patients with stroke outcomes from the hyperacute to the outcome phase and to use the collected data to develop predictive models of recovery based on machine learning. The first steps to be taken are 1) Definition and start of work for the data sharing platform; 2) Definition of working groups for Ontologies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of different tasks in order to standardize data collection for stroke patients. Overall funding € € 4899382.50

PROMISING, precision medicine approach in geriatrics: from biomolecular bases. of aging and age-related diseases to clinical care models. Funding Body: IRCCS Aging Network, Ministry of Health duration 12 months; project start 01/11/2021, overall funding € 1,970,954.44. Coordinator: INRCA. Participants: IRCCS Aging Network; PI for Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation: Fabrizio Giunco. WP2 Francesca Cecchi. Identify new biomarkers that allow increasingly precise characterization of the elderly patient, identify new molecules to be used for therapeutic purposes in the prevention and treatment of diseases associated with aging, and create a data sharing platform for research development.Funding Total € 1970954

Current Research IRCCS FDG Scientific Officer (PI) at Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, IRCCS, for the following Current Research projects funded by the Ministry of Health (2001 to present): 2020- Predictive Factors Outcome Measures and Biomarkers of Response to Poststroke Intensive Rehabilitation (PROMISE@LAB) (10 subprojects with national and international collaborations) 2019 Post-stroke intensive rehabilitation: study of predictive factors of outcome and response to specific RIPS interventions. 2018 Mirror Therapy protocol for lower limb and upper limb compared with a traditional individual FKT protocol in patients with acute cerebrovascular injury sequelae. 2018 Evolution of functioning pattern during intensive rehabilitation stay of patients with acquired brain injury measured by FIM+FAM and ICF. 2016 to 2017 Effectiveness of cast in severe juvenile idiopathic scoliosis: prospective study. 2014 to 2015 Rehabilitation of the patient with femur fracture: from shared protocols to pathway validation. 2013 to 2014 Validation of CheneauMod P scoliosis corset. 2012 to 2014 Autonomy in walking of patients with lumbar canal stenosis treated in Pathway 2, Tuscany Region. 2012 Clinical course and outcome of THAs implanted with minimally invasive surgical approach: evaluation with ICF CORE-SET. 2007 to 2012 InChianti - Prevalence and correlates of joint pathology in a population-based study: the InChianti project. from 2010 to 2012 Detection of chronic pain and its correlates in rehabilitation: multicenter study. 2007 to 2008 Prospective randomized study on treatment of cervicoalgia with manual medicine vs physical medicine pathway. from 2007 to 2008 Adapted Motor Activity Pathways for patients with Diabetes Mellitus in collaboration with UO Diabetology, Torregalli Hospital, Florence. from 2006 to 2008 The treatment of lower limb fractures in collaboration with the Orthopedic Clinic II, University of Florence 2007 Pathways of Adapted Motor Activity for frail elderly with hypomobility algic syndrome: effects on quality of life, physical fitness and risk of incident disability. 2007 Pathways of Adapted Motor Activity in water for elderly with algic hypomobility syndrome. 2005 Clinical functional evaluation in outcomes of fractures of the distal third of the leg operated osteosynthesis with plate on the fibula and intramedullary nail in the tibia, in collaboration with the Orthopedic Clinic II, University of Florence. from 2004 to 2005 Clinical and functional follow-up of patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis treated with rehabilitation protocol in collaboration with Rheumatology Clinic, University of Florence. from 2002 to 2004 Multicenter comparison between manipulative therapy and physiotherapy in Whiplash Rehabilitation. from 2001 to 2004 Evaluation of the efficacy of a Manual Medicine treatment in chronic low back pain, compared with physiokinesitherapy treatments from 2001 to 2003 Evaluation of the effectiveness of a targeted exercise program on the elderly with musculoskeletal pathology.

Other National and International Scientific Collaborations. from 2018 to 2019 Coordinated with Stefano Negrini (CochraneRehabilitation, University of Brescia) and Silvia Galeri FDG Rovato the KT-PRM project: translation of Cochrane Guidelines into clinical practice. from 2016 to 2018 Member of the Scientific Technical Committee, Si4LIFE Consortium Liguria Region from 2017 to 2019 Collaborates with the University of Genoa, Faculty of Engineering, Signal Analysis Laboratory on a Telerehabilitation Project: Removes. from 2015 to present Collaborates on study design, data collection and scientific paper writing to FDG Current Research projects on Robotic Rehabilitation. from 2005 to present Adapted Physical Activity (AFA) for high (curved back and low back pain) and low (Stroke Outcomes, Parkinson's M) function, is Co-author of academic texts and scientific papers, used as reference for drafting regional AFA protocols

1997 to 2008 Collaborated first as a researcher at Fraticini INRCA then as a researcher at Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation to the study design to data collection and writing of scientific papers to the Epidemiological Study on the Determinants of Mobility in the Elderly Resident in Chianti (InChianti Project), in collaboration with the National Institute of Aging in Baltimore, the Regional Health Authority of the Region of Tuscany and, later, the don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation. Research on a baseline sample of 1463 subjects has produced more than 100 scientific papers published in international journals. from 1993 to 2002 Collaborated on research involving the use of ultrasound (Doppler and echocolordoppler) and imaging (MRI) methods in vascular diagnostics aimed mainly at stroke prevention, with study of collateral circles and anatomical variables of cerebro-afferent vessels, and lower limb vascular pathologies. 1990 to 2001 Scientific Collaboration / Researcher Hospital I Fraticini INRCA - IRCCS. Collaborated for the planning, implementation and writing phases of scientific communications inherent, to studies conducted by I Fraticini Hospital in collaboration with other Institutes, national and international. In detail: 1997 to 2001 (then 2001-8 for FDG) Epidemiological study on the determinants of mobility in the elderly resident in Chianti (InChianti Project), in collaboration with the National Institute of Aging in Baltimore at the Regional Health Authority of the Region of Tuscany. from 1992 to 1994 Epidemiological study conducted in collaboration with World Laboratory (Lausanne), Geriatric Clinic University of Florence, University of Palermo and XuanWu Hospital, Peking University on Aging in the People's Republic of China. from 1992 to 1993 Epidemiological study on health conditions and use of services conducted in Lugo di Romagna in collaboration with Bocconi University of Milan and U.S.L. 36 of Lugo di Romagna, particularly for the category of non-self-sufficient elderly. 1992 to 1993 Project FINE (Finland, Italy, The Netherlands, Elderly), longitudinal study on the baseline of the Seven Countries Study in collaboration with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità on the distribution of scores of some neuropsychological tests and their predictivity on the onset of cognitive impairment in an elderly population followed longitudinally. 1993 Validation study of the Sickness Impact Profile, conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Gerontology in Florence and the O.U. of Geriatrics in Florence and Prato. 1990 to 1992 Project finalized by the Ministry of Health on the Role of Posture and Balance Disorders in the Genesis of Disability in the Elderly Subject.

COORDINATION RESEARCH GROUPS

from 2021 to present Scientific Responsible Joint Laboratory Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine University of Florence-IRCCS FdG Protocols and Outcome Measures in Rehabilitation Medicine PROMISE@LAB. https://www.unifi.it/CMpro-v-p-2609.html#; https://www.dongnocchi.it/ricerca-scientifica/i-centri-irccs/irccs-don-gnocchi-firenze/promise-lab; from 2015 to 2021 Head of Research Laboratory in Neuromotor Rehabilitation LABRIAN (formerly Orthopedic) Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi, IRCCS Florence. from 2001 to 2015 Coordinator Research Group in Orthopedic Rehabilitation, don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation IRCCS Florence.

National and International Study Groups.

2021 to present Member of the ISPRM Clinical Sciences and Research Committee. 2019-2022 Member of the CICERONE National Conference on Robotic Rehabilitation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità. Working Group 3 - Theoretical Reference Models, Future Perspectives, Development and Research.

2019 to present Member of the SIMFER National Working Group Review of the Minimum Protocol for Severe Acquired Brain Injury- external reviewer. Member of the SIMFER National Working Group Review of the Minimum Protocol for Stroke. 2016 to present Member of the Medical Committee of Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation: Protocols and Procedures group coordinator Hospital Discharge Sheet group coordinator. Benchmark group coordinator.

REVIEW & EDITORIAL BOARD ACTIVITIES

Peer review Regularly serves as a reviewer for international journals indexed in Pub Med Editorial board Editorial Board of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health "Disabilities" Section (Q1)

Member Editorial Board of Geriatrics (Geriatrics, Q3). Member Editorial Board of the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (Rehabilitation, Q1). Cochrane Rehabilitation Cochrane Corner's Author. Cochrane Newsletter Editorial Board.

COURSES &CONGRESSES

2006 to present COURSES: DIRECTOR/ SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBLE for CME-accredited courses. IN DETAIL: 2019 Scientific Director Pre-Congress Course: Robotic Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb. September 29, SIMFER National Congress Florence September 29-October 4, 2019. 2018 Scientific Responsible Course 10-18 SIMFER accredited CME: Drugs in the rehabilitation of Stroke Brescia, May.

2017 Scientific Responsible ECM accredited Course: Drugs in the rehabilitation of Stroke. IRCCS FDG Florence, November 24. 2011 Scientific responsible for the ECM accredited course ICF Basic Course. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Pozzolatico June 22. 2011 Scientific Responsible ECM Accredited Course: The rehabilitation of the oncological patient. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Pozzolatico, June 11, 2011. 2008 Scientific Responsible for the ECM accredited Course: The post-surgical rehabilitation of upper limb fractures: theoretical-practical course. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Pozzolatico, November 22. 2007 Scientific Responsible for the CME Accredited Course: Lower limb fractures: framing and rehabilitation treatment. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Pozzolatico, Nov. 10. 2006 Scientific responsible for the CME accredited Course: Rehabilitation in Ankylosing Spondylitis. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Pozzolatico November 18.

2020 to present CONGRESSES: REPORTER, MODERATOR AND SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZER OF REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONGRESSES SIGG, SIGM, SIRN, SIMFER. IN DETAIL:

Moderator SIMFER National Congress Catania 23-26/10/22

Moderator I meeting in presence Virtual Institute National Cerebrovascular Diseases Network IRCCS Neuroscience de Neuroriabilitazione, Policinico Gemelli Rome 20-12/10 Moderator Masterclass Infiiltrations of shoulder and knee. Humanitas. Florence Moderator CongressRegional SIRN Grosseto. Moderator Congress SNO, Florence 15-17 September Moderator VII SIMFER Tuscany Event on vertebral pain, Pistoia, Sept. 16 Speaker ISPRM ESPRM SPMFR Congress Lisbon 3-7 2022 Moderator at SIMFER Tuscany Congress Management of the patient with Spasticity in Rehabilitation Medicine: from theory to practice Florence, May 6, 2022 Moderator at the Congress AUSILES AND ORTHOPAEDIC TECHNIQUE IN THE REHABILITATION PROGRAM FOR POSTURAL SPASTICITY DISORDERS Florence 18/2/22 2021 SIMFER National Congress Speaker. 06/2021 Speaker Virtual International Congress ISPRM 2021. 2020 Invited speaker National SIMFER Congress December 2020. 2020 Webinar Moderator the hemophilic patient: the interdisciplinary rehabilitative care pathway in Tuscany, October 23. 2020 SIMFER Webinar speaker: the PMIC2020. July 16. 2018 Member Scientific board, Co-referee Stroke Session and Research Session in Robotic Rehabilitation, Invited Speaker SIMFER National Congress Florence, September 29-October 4, 2019. Scientific Responsible for the Congress Robotic rehabilitation of the upper limb: comparing experiences. Marina di Massa, November 1 from 2012 to present From 2012 to present regularly presented various papers at national SIMFER and national SIMFER and SIRN Toscana (see contribution to Proceedings of Congresses). 2002 to ogg INVITED SPEAKER AT THE FOLLOWING REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONVENTIONS: 2019 Invited as Moderator National Congress Simfer Catania October Invited as Moderator first meeting IV National Cerebrovascular Diseases, Policlinico Gemelli Rome Invited as speaker UPTODATE IN PHYSIATRY RECOMMENDED. Feb. 19, 2022 Invited as moderator: regional congress rheumatoloigcal rehabilitation, October 2021 Montacatini Invited as a speaker National Congress SIGM Florence April 12. 2018 Invited as speaker Conference: Management of patients with multi-resistant germ infections in rehabilitation wards. Azienda USL Toscana Centro Prato June 9. 2018 Invited as a speaker at SIMFER-Regione Emilia-Romagna Conference: Are we ready for a rehabilitation SDO? Parma, October 31, 2018. 2018 Invited as speaker 10th uptodate in Physiatrics, SIMFER Tuscany Pistoia November 10. 2018 Invited as speaker Convegno Dalle Neuroscienze alla Neuroriabilitazione Fondazione don Carlo Gnocchi e ASM, Matera April 10. 2018 Invited as speaker Conference: The rehabilitation pathway of cerebral stroke. Azienda USL Toscana Nordovest. Viareggio January 26. 2017 Invited as a speaker Conference SIRN Tuscany Lucca October 7. 2017 Invited as speaker third SIMFER Toscana event Interdisciplinarity and appropriateness. Florence Oct 14. 2017 Invited as speaker Conference: Stroke criticality and opportunities in a social disease. ALICe Massa, October 28.

2012 Invited as Speaker Congress: Role of physical activity in the management of chronic diseases. Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation Florence April 28. 2011 Invited speaker ISICO congress, keynote reading: Exercise in chronic low back pain, March 26 Milan. 2009 Invited speaker at the 52nd SIGM National Congress, Florence. 2007 Invited speaker at ISICO Congress (Italian Scientific Institute for the Study of the Spine), June 15 Milan. 2003 to 2007 Invited by the Italian Society of Geriatrics Gerontology (SIGG) as a moderator at the National Congress. from 2000 to 2002 Invited by the Italian Society of Geriatrics Gerontology (SIGG) as a speaker at National Congresses on topics related to the rehabilitation of the elderly person with locomotor system pathology (October 2000, 2001, 2002).

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

National Board Italian Society of Neurological Rehabilitation (SIRN). Member of the ISPRM Clinical Sciences and Research Committee.

National Secretary Stroke Section Italian Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (SIMFER). 2018 to present National Advisor GCA and Stroke Section SIMFER.

Member Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG). from 2021 to present Delegate for relations with University SIMFER Tuscany. from 2017 to September 2021 Deputy Secretary SIMFER Tuscany. SCIENTIFIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, AWARDS

2020 Award - JNPT Golden Synapse award: Rationale: Co-author of the article "Upper Limb Robotic Rehabilitation After Stroke: A Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial" selected winner of the JNPT Golden Synapse award for the outstanding article published in 2020 by the Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy (Q1 rehabilitation). Publication: April I., Germanotta M., Cruciani A., Loreti S., Pecchioli C., Cecchi F., Montesano A., Galeri S., Diverio M., Falsini C., Speranza G., Langone E., Papadopoulou D., Padua L., Carrozza M. C. (2020). Upper Limb Robotic Rehabilitation after Stroke: A Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial. JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGIC PHYSICAL THERAPY, vol. 44, p. 3-14, ISSN: 1557-0576, doi: 10.1097/NPT.000000000295. 2011 Winner of the Istituto Scientifico Italiano COlonna vertebrale (ISICO) AWARD for the best published work by Italian Authors on the spine as First Author of: Cecchi F, Molino-Lova R, Chiti M, Pasquini G, Paperini A, Conti AA, Macchi C. Spinal manipulation compared with back school and with individually delivered physiotherapy for the treatment of chronic low back pain: a randomized trial with one-year follow-up. ClinRehabil 2010;24(1):26-36. ISICO Congress Spine and Rehabilitation Milan March 26, 2011. 2008 Winner of the First ISICO AWARD for the best published work by Italian Authors on the spine as Co-Author of: Di Iorio A, Abate M, Guralnik JM, Bandinelli S, Cecchi F, Cherubini A, Corsonello A, Foschini N, Guglielmi M, Lauretani F, Volpato S, Abate A, Ferrucci L. From chronic Low Back Pain to disability. A multifactorial mediated pathway. (The InCHIANTIstudy). Spine 2007;32:809-15.ISICO Congress Spine and Rehabilitation Milan, March 15, 2008. 2007 Winner of the ISICO AWARD for the top 6 best papers published by Italian Authors on spine as first Author of: Cecchi F, Debolini P, Molino Lova R, Macchi C, Bandinelli S, Bartali B, Lauretani F, Benvenuti E, Hicks G, Ferrucci L. Epidemiology of back pain in a representative cohort of Italian persons 65 years of age and older: the InCHIANTI study. Spine 2006;31(10):1149-55, ISICO Congress Spine and Rehabilitation Milan March 10, 2007. PUBLICATIONS

Research activity has resulted in the publication of scientific articles in international and national journals, monographic volumes; author and editor of scientific volumes, book chapters, abstracts and proceedings of Congresses. MORE INFO.

Beginning of research activity: 1991. Publications: 111 Works indexed in Scopus +18 non-indexed articles+25 book chapters + 5 monographs+78 contributions in Conference Proceedings=Total: 235. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7410-0325

BIBLIOMETRIC INDEXES AS OF 12/12/2022 Number: 126 (Google scholar); 111 (Scopus)total number of citations (sources) 2534 (Google Scholar); 1578 (Scopus) H index (sources) 24 (Google Scholar); 21 (Scopus). Most contributed Topics 2017-2021 (Scopus 17 Dec 2022): Upper Extremity; Stroke Rehabilitation; Arm -5 documents; Patient Neglect; Perception Disorder; Functional Laterality - 3 documents; Stroke Rehabilitation; Subacute Care; Very Elderly- 3 documents

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Francesca Cecchi

Development and validation of innovative treatment protocols in Rehabilitation Medicine, including the study of physiotherapy techniques and protocols for language and neurocognitive rehabilitation, and the use of innovative technologies, such as robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, telerehabilitation, research on therapeutic exercise and neuroplasticity.

Physical activity and technologies for Healthy Aging.

Development and validation of elinico-functional, laboratory and instrumental outcome measures, including robot-derived measures.

Identification of predictive factors and biomarkers of response to treatment and healthy aging, exploring clinical-functional, instrumental (including motion analysis and neurophysiological parameters) and laboratory parameters (including neurogenetic biomarkers and the study of cellular processes using nanotechnologie