Silvia Zanon

She holds an MSc in Osteopathy from ISO and postgraduate certificates in Paediatric Osteopathy and Academic and Clinical Education from the British School of Osteopathy, London (validated by the University of Bedfordshire). Her clinical and research interests focus on osteopathic care in paediatrics, pregnancy, and the post-partum period. She is actively involved in clinical research collaborations in obstetrics and gynaecology and has contributed to peer-reviewed publications in paediatric osteopathy.

Since 2003, she has been a self-employed osteopath specialising in maternal and paediatric osteopathy in a medical practice in Verona, Italy. From 2009 to the present, she has been a lecturer in Paediatric Osteopathy (Theory & Practice, Levels 5/6) and Cranial Osteopathy (Theory & Practice, Levels 4/5) at ISO in Milan. Since 2008, she has also served as a clinical tutor for undergraduate and postgraduate osteopathy students (Levels 6/7) and as Head of the Paediatric Department at C.M.O. in Milan. Between 2018 and 2021, she was Module Leader for the Postgraduate Certificate in Paediatric Osteopathy at ISO, and from 2022 to 2026 she serves as Co-Director of the Specialist Programme in Paediatric Osteopathy at ISO in Milan.

In 2019, she completed an MSc in Osteopathy at the Istituto Superiore di Osteopatia in Milan. In 2017, she obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Paediatric Osteopathy from the British School of Osteopathy in London, and in 2016 she completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic and Clinical Education at the same institution, both validated by the University of Bedfordshire. In 2003, she graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Osteopathy from ISO in Milan, a five-year full-time programme validated by the University of Wales. Her thesis was titled “The application of an osteopathic protocol in children with acute otitis media improves tympanic mobility and prevents recurrence.” In 1998, she received her Classical Secondary School Diploma (Liceo Classico) from Liceo S. Maffei in Verona, Italy.

She has undertaken extensive postgraduate education and continuous professional development in paediatric, obstetric, gynaecological, and clinical osteopathy, including national and international congresses, postgraduate courses, and specialist training programmes in Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom between 2000 and 2018. Since 2012, she has actively collaborated in an ongoing clinical research project between the ISO University Clinic and the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the Hospital of Sesto San Giovanni in Milan. In 2017, she contributed to the publication “Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Limits Chronic Constipation in a Child with Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome.”