Dr. De Leo received an MS in Electronic Engineering (1999) and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Bioelectronics (2003) from the University of Genoa, Italy and an MBA (2005) from Saint Louis University, St. Louis. Dr. De Leo was involved in several projects related to e-health, biomedical informatics, virtual reality and mobile health, which were funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, the European Commission and the National Institutes of Health, Microsoft Research, the Virginia Center on Aging and several SBIR/STTR programs. Dr. De Leo is currently leading research projects related to the design, the development and the assessment of different e-health systems for children with disabilities.