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Institut Guttmann has held this Friday 27th November in the Oval Room at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), the institutional ceremony of the 50th anniversary celebration, coinciding with the opening of the old hospital, in the neighborhood of La Sagrera, in 1965.

This year the Technical Conferences, opened by Ms. Neus Munté, vice-chair of the Government of Catalonia and Dr. Josep M. Ramírez, managing director of the Institut Guttmann, have received exceptionally the most important congresses of specialists in spinal cord injury; the XXII National Conferences of the Spanish Society of Paraplegia (SEP) and the XXI Symposium of the Spanish Association of Skilled Nursing in the Injured Spinal Cord (ASELME).

The Institut Guttmann organizes from 28th to 30th October the XXVII edition of Institut Guttmann Technical Symposia, this year in a very special occasion because of the 50th anniversary of the hospital. The event will meet the XXVI National Conferences of the Spanish Society of Paraplegia (SEP), the XXI Symposium of the Spanish Association of Special Nursing in the Injured Spinal (ASELME), the first Conferences on Technology and Functional Rehabilitation and also a Debate of Social Innovation and Disability.

Yesterday, 5th October, the Institut Guttmann gathered more than 350 people in ONCE’s Auditorium in Barcelona, to discover how to guide the brain throughout live. With the title “Promoting brain health” and with the speaker Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Dean of Translational Research and scientific advisor to the Institut Guttmann.