The Interactive Media Institute (IMI) is a 501c3 non-profit organization working to further the application of advanced technologies for patient care. IMI sponsors national and international workshops, meetings, and continuing education courses. The Institute is also active in conducting research and clinical trials, and specializes in virtual reality, telehealth, videogame virtual reality, and human-computer interaction research. IMI is actively working with world leaders who are experts in utilizing virtual reality, multimedia, computer-generated avatars, personal robots and other technologies to treat patients with both mental and physical disorders. IMI promotes education for healthcare providers, students, interns, and other trainees in the healthcare field. In addition, researchers at the Institute collaborate with experts in technical areas such as computer hardware, software, and graphics; biomedical engineering; communication engineering; and others. It also serves as a source of information, training, and assistance for professionals. IMI s educational programs seek to offer assistance to those individuals who would benefit from virtual reality and multimedia technical solutions and encourages businesses to develop expanded multimedia solutions to assist a larger segment of the general public in solving a broader range of issues through the use of advanced technologies. If you are interested in making a tax-deductible donation, please contact us. | In collaboration with:
 The Istituto Auxologico Italiano is a foundation of private right that was established upon Decree of the President of the Republic on the 6th December 1963 n. 1883, and was officially recognized by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education in 1972 as Scientific Institute for Research Hospitalization and Health Care (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, I.R.C.C.S.). This recognition was further confirmed and extended in the successive quinquennials. The scientific and clinical activities of the Italian Auxological Institute were originally addressed to growth disorders, a research area where the Institute developed a prestigious and pioneering role. Interests subsequently grew to include various aspects of developmental diseases and concentrated on ailments arising from a genetic and environmental basis, leading to some of the major and more invalidating chronic illnesses of adult age that require extensive rehabilitative interventions. Main research areas
The research activities of the Institute are directed to endocrine and metabolic diseases and their rehabilitation, with particular attention to obesity and diabetes, as well as to primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disorders, with particular regard to arterial hypertension and atherosclerosis, and acute and chronic manifestations of both cardiac and neurological pathologies. These, together with neurodegenerative diseases, largely require highly specialized rehabilitative interventions. |
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