ESPRM2024

Currently confirmed speakers

Plenary invited speakers

Deputy head at the Neurorehabilitation & neuropsychology service at Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland as well as Privat Docent at the University of Lausanne.

Stefano Carda

Director, European School on "Rehabilitation of pain and pain related disability"

Roberto Casale

Justine Gosling

Xiaolei Hu, MD, PhD is an associate Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine at Umeå University.

Xiaolei Hu

Gerold Stucki is Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine.

Gerold Stucki

Luigi Tesio, MD, is a specialist in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

Luigi Tesio

Dr. Susanne Weinbrenner is working as Chief Medical Officer and Head of Department for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Social Medicine at the German Statutory Pension Fund.

Susanne Weinbrenner

Keynote speakers

University of Porto (UP): Professor Faculty of Dentistry (FMDUP): Physiatry; Temporomandibular Disorders, Orofacial Pain. Investigation with Engineering Faculty.

Caterina Aguiar Branco

Isabelle Bonan is a Proffesor of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and Head of PRM department in universitary hospital of rennes (France).

Isabelle Bonan

Paolo Capodaglio received M.D. degree from the University of Pavia, Italy. At present, he is Professor in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine  at the University of Torino.

Paolo Capodaglio

Paolo Capodaglio received M.D. degree from the University of Pavia, Italy. At present, he is Professor in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine  at the University of Torino.

Maria Gabriella Ceravolo

Full Professor of electrical engineering and a Dean of the School of Engineering and Management and a Senior Researcher at University Rehabilitation Institute Soča. 

Imre Cikajlo

Transitional Chair of the Founding Board of the International Society of Wheelchair Professionals and President of the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics.

David Constantine

Head of the Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Richard Crevenna

Camille Daste, MD, MSc is a specialist in rheumatology and in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine working in the department of musculoskeletal rehabilitation of the Cochin university hospital, AP-HP.Centre-Université Paris Cité, France

Camille Daste

Vincent de Groot is a Chair of the committee of the Netherlands Society of Rehabilitation Medicine

Vincent de Groot

Zoltan Dénes MD, PhD is specialised in orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation medicine.

Zoltan Denes

Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at University of Szeged, Hungary

Gábor Fazekas

President of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Professor of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

Francesca Gimigliano

Frane Grubišić

Professor and head of physical & rehabilitation medicine and sports traumato - logy
University and University hospital of liège (Belgium)

Kaux Jean-François


PRM physician, working in Italy since 2020, after 30 years at University Hospitals Leuven.

Carlotte Kiekens

Full professor and head of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical Faculty of Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.

Ayşe A. Küçükdeveci

Dr. Laxe is a specialist in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine working at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain

Sara Laxe

State University of Novi Pazar, Department of Biomedical Research, European Center for Peace and Development of University for Peace est. by United Nations, Belgrade, Serbia

Milica Lazović

Matilde Leonardi

Head of Robolab at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of electrical engineering.

Marko Munih

Stefano Negrini, MD PhD, is Professor in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM), University “La Statale”, Milan.

Stefano Negrini

Professor Rory J O'Connor, MD, Med, FHEA, FRCP is a Charterhouse Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and LIRMM Director of Research and Innovation.

Rory O'Connor

Aydan Oral is currently a professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, since 1996.

Aydan Oral

PRM physician and senior researcher in the field of spinal cord injury at the Rijndam Rehabilitation Center and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Rutger Osterthun

Professor at Hacettepe University Medical School, Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Levent Özçakar

Medical Doctor, specialist Physical Rehabilitation and Medicine, European Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (1996), University Professor (University of Lorraine, 2007)

Jean Paysant

Head of PRM Department of the General Hospital “G.Gennimatas” (NHS) in Athens, Greece, a training department for the PRM specialty.

Christina-Anastasia Rapidi

Mikhail Saltychev is a Professor in PRM at Turku University and a Senior PRM Consultant in Turku University Hospital, Finland.

Mikhail Saltychev

Professor of Buenos Aires University (UBA) and of UNSAM University, Head of the Rehabilitation Department of the British Hospital, Treasurer of ISPRM and International Consultant on Prostheses

Carolina Schiappacasse

Full professor at the Erasmus MC University Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ruud Selles

Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen

Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Medical director at Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Marta Supervia Pola

Professor and consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands.

Corry K. Van Der Sluis

Certified senior fellow, European Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Hubert Vuagnat

Lecturer at Perugia University for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine.

Mauro Zampolini

Dr. Zasler is Founder, CEO & Medical Director of Concussion Care Centre of Virginia.

Nathan Zasler