CIAO ITALIA!!

Published by ICSEB at 17 October, 2014

The Institut Chiari & Siringomielia & Escoliosis de Barcelona (ICSEB)’s Italian division had the privilege to be the first of the Institut’s international care units.

Those who are aware of the story tell us that everything started due to Italian patients first who took interest in the treatment that a Catalan neurosurgeon was applying in Barcelona.

It was in 2006 when Dr. Miguel B. Royo Salvador noticed ayoung clinical psychologist, Gioia Luè, who was then doing international studies in Barcelona.

Thanks to the incorporation of Gioia Luè, BSc, communicating with Italian patients and their relatives became much easier and smoother and soon enough followed international patient meetings in Rome, Palermo, Trieste, Oristano and Bari.

Elena de’Michieli Vitturi, Bachelor of Arts in Languages and Literature (“Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore”, Milan) and marketing specialist, joined the project in February 2014 with the aim of adding more talent to an area that has not stopped growing since 2006.

The Italian division contributes greatly to the attention given to Italian- speaking patients, starting with the patients’ first contact with the ICSEB until the moment of discharge, thus strengthening interpersonal communication and the physician-patient relationship by offering their linguistic assistance.

It is also part of their duties to translate official medical reports, but let’s not forget the intense work they carry out in the management of relationships with different Italian representatives ad social entities.

All this thanks to a wise combination of passion and professionalism in the difficult world of transcultural medical mediation and with the determination to serve in the patients in the first place, as well as the ICSEB and society in a globalized word on a general basis.