Associate Professor silvia bressan
Silvia Bressan, MD, PhD is the head of the pediatric emergency department and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Padova, Italy. She is the chair of PERN (Pediatric Emergency Research Networks), coordinating the dialogue between member networks and collaboration between large numbers of researchers and investigative sites across the world.
Her research and clinical interests focus on acute pediatric conditions, including head trauma and concussion, on which she published over 50 papers. She also coordinated and published the Italian Guidelines on pediatric head injury and she has recently coordinated the translation in Italian of the CISG Sport Concussion Assessment Tools. Her other research interests include medical simulation and, more recently, artificial intelligence.
She has published over 150 peer reviewed papers, and has secured substantial funding from local, national and international competitive grants.