Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Vincenzo Solfrizzi
Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy

Dr. Vincenzo Solfrizzi obtained an M.D. degree in 1992 from the University of Bari, “A. Moro, Italy, and completed his geriatric residency training at the same university in 1997. He has a Ph.D. in Carcinogenesis, Aging, and Immunoregulation, a grant supported by the European Community. In 2021, he qualified to be a full professor in internal and geriatric medicine at the School of Medicine of the University of Bari, “A. Moro" Italy, where he directed the neuro-psychogeriatrics unit from 2011. He was trained in longitudinal data analysis at the PENN University (USA) in 2000. His main areas of research are predementia syndromes and cognitive decline of degenerative (Alzheimer’s disease) or vascular origin (vascular dementia) and their relationship with vascular risk factors, genetics, and the Mediterranean diet. He has published more than 300 hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers (h-index 75), collaborating since 2003 with the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale (AZ), USA, and since 2008 with the Institut Pasteur de Lille Unité d'Epidemiology et de Santé Publique Inserm-UMR744 BP 245-59019 LILLE Cedex for issues related to the genetics of Alzheimer's disease. He is a member of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Neurology from 2011 to 2019.
E-mail: vincenzo.solfrizzi@uniba.it | ORCID

Associate Editors

Giuseppe Bellelli, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Giuseppe Bellelli studied at the University of Milan, graduating in medicine in 1988 and specializing in geriatrics and gerontology in 1992 at the University of Parma. He is a Full Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine and the Director of the School of Specialization in Geriatrics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He is also the Director of the Acute Geriatrics Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza, Italy. He is also a member and lecturer of the Public Health Epidemiology, Statistics, and Economics program at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Prof. Bellelli is the President of the regional section of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG) and served as a national board member of the same society from 2014 to 2022. From 2020 to 2022, he was the national vice president of the Italian Association of Psychogeriatrics (AIP). From 2018 to September 2023, he was the coordinator of the Delirium Special Interest Group of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS). Prof. Bellelli is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ravasi Garzanti Onlus Foundation. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific publications in international journals and the author of 3 books and several chapters in Italian and English.
E-mail: giuseppe.bellelli@unimib.it | ORCID

Mario Bo, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Italy
Prof. Mario Bo is a specialist in geriatrics and cardiology, with a PhD in Gerontology Research and Geriatric Therapy. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers, with publications in international peer-reviewed journals. He regularly carries out teaching activities at the University of Turin. He is a member of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG) and the Italian Society of Geriatric Cardiology (SICGe). His research activity focuses on the fields of geriatrics (focusing on delirium, dementia, sarcopenia, osteoporosis, polypharmacy, and inappropriate therapy) and cardiology (focusing on atrial fibrillation, syncope, hypertension, and aortic stenosis).
E-mail: mario.bo@unito.it | ORCID

Francesco Cacciatore, Campoli/Telese Scientific Institute, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Telese, Benevento, Italy
E-mail: francesco.cacciatore@fsm.it | ORCID

Giovanni Cenderello, Infectious Diseases, ASL 1, Sanremo, Italy
E-mail: g.cenderello@asl1.liguria.it | ORCID

Antonio Cherubini, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
Antonio Cherubini, MD, PhD, is a geriatrician. He performed research activities in several US centers, including Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (1997-1998); the Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), VA hospital, Gainesville; the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston; and the National Institute on Aging, Baltimore. He is currently Director of Geriatria, Accettazione geriatrica, e Centro di Ricerca per l'Invecchiamento and of the Department of Geriatric Pathways of Frailty,Continuity of Care and Rehabilitation, at IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy. He is also an Associate Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. He is the former Academic Director of the EuGMS (2022-2023). He is also the author of more than 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is an Associate Editor of European Geriatric Medicine.
E-mail: a.cherubini@inrca.it | ORCID

Andrea Corsonello, IRCCS INRCA, Cosenza, Italy
E-mail: andrea_corsonello@tin.it | ORCID

Fulvio Lauretani, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy
E-mail: fulvio.lauretani@unipr.it | ORCID

Patrizia Mecocci, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Italy
Prof. Mecocci received her M.D. from the University of Perugia (Italy), School of Medicine, where she completed a residency program in Geriatrics. She also earned a Ph.D. in Biology and Physiopathology of Aging at the University of Modena (Italy). After receiving a grant from the Italian National Research Council (CNR), she spent three years as a research fellow, first at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry at the University of Lund (Sweden) and then at the Department of Neurology, MGH-Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA). She then started her academic career at the University of Perugia, where she is now Full Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics and Director of the Geriatric Clinic. She has been appointed by Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm as Foreign Adjunct Professor at the Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society (NVS). Her research activity is focused on several aspects of clinical and neuropsychological aspects of aging and biological studies on aging with a specific interest in oxidative stress. She sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Reports, Alzheimer’s and Dementia TRCI, American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, International Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Nutrients, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. She worked as a partner in various European Union-funded projects of FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020, IHI programs, and JPND programs concerned with improving the diagnosis/treatment of dementia, problems related to aging, and healthcare opportunities for an aging Europe. She is P.I. of national projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (MinSal) and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) on biomarkers in aging and age-related diseases and on the role of oxidative stress and antioxidants in aging. She is the founder and scientific leader of the GERICO project (GERIatric COgnitive evaluation), an electronic health record system for collecting clinical, biological, and neuroimaging data on many old subjects with cognitive and somatic problems. She is the author/coauthor of more than 430 peer-reviewed publications, and she contributed 40 books/chapters and monographs.
E-mail: patrizia.mecocci@unipg.it | ORCID

Alessandro Nobili, Department of Health Policy, Istituto Mario Negri, Milano, Italy
E-mail: alessandro.nobili@marionegri.it | ORCID

Francesco Panza, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
E-mail: f_panza@hotmail.com | ORCID

Giuseppe Rengo, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
E-mail: giuseppe.rengo@unina.it | ORCID

Davide Seripa, Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
E-mail: dseripa@operapadrepio.it | ORCID

Gianluca Trifirò, University of Messina, Italy
Gianluca Trifirò is a MD, with a post-graduate degree in Clinical Pharmacology and a PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology. He currently works as a Full Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Verona. He is the scientific coordinator of the Postgraduation Degree in Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology and of a Master's program on “Use of Real-World Data for Evaluations in Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics” at the University of Verona. He is the scientific coordinator of the Italian Society of Pharmacology working group on pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance. For around 20 years he has been fully involved in ISOP, where he currently acts as Chair of the Big Data and RWE Special Interest Group. He is a fellow of both the International Society of Pharmacovigilance and the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology.  He is a member of the steering group of the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP) of the European Medicine Agency. He is Editor in Chief of the journal Frontiers in Drug Safety and Regulation. He is the author of more than 250 publications PV- and clinical pharmacology-related in international scientific peer-reviewed journals.
E-mail: trifirog@unime.it | ORCID

Andrea Ungar, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Italy
Prof. Andrea Ungar is a Full Professor of Internal Medicine - Geriatrics at the University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi. He is currently Director of Geriatrics and Intensive Care Unit. Andrea Ungar is an expert in geriatric medicine, and cardiovascular disease in the elderly (he is the author of more than 400 publications). He is involved in the Italian and European Societies of Geriatrics and Cardiology. He is the President of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Coordinator of the Special Interest Group on Cardiovascular Medicine of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Societies, and President of the Veteris Association for Animal-Assisted Therapy. His professional activities also include reviewing scientific manuscripts for high-impact journals in internal medicine, geriatrics, and cardiovascular medicine journals.
E-mail: andrea.ungar@unifi.it | ORCID

Stefano Volpato, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy
E-mail: stefano.volpato@unife.it | ORCID

International Board

Mario Barbagallo, IAGG, Palermo, Italy
E-mail: mario.barbagallo@unipa.it | ORCID

Matteo Cesari, University of Milan, Italy
E-mail: matteo.cesari@unimi.it | ORCID

Vito Curiale, Monaco, Principality of Monaco
E-mail: curiale@libero.it | ORCID

Luigi Ferrucci, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
E-mail: ferruccilu@grc.nia.nih.gov | ORCID

Marco Inzitari, Institute of Aging, University of Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: minzitari@perevirgili.catsalut.net | ORCID

Walter Maetzler, University of Kiel, Germany
E-mail: w.maetzler@neurologie.uni-kiel.de | ORCID

Stefania Maggi, EUGMS, Padova, Italy
E-mail: stefania.maggi@in.cnr.it | ORCID

Peter Malfertheiner, University of Magdeburg, Germany
E-mail: peter.malfertheiner@med.ovgu.de | ORCID

Arduino Mangoni, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
E-mail: arduino.mangoni@flinders.edu.au | ORCID

Francesco Mattace-Raso, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands
E-mail: f.mattaceraso@erasmusmc.nl | ORCID

Ferdinando Petrazzuoli, Lund University, Sweden
E-mail: ferdinando.petrazzuoli@med.lu.se | ORCID

Maria Cristina Polidori, Department of Internal Medicine, CECAD Aging Research, Cologne, Germany
E-mail: maria.polidori-nelles@uk-koeln.de | ORCID

Lee Smith, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
E-mail: lee.smith@anglia.ac.uk

Pinar Soysal, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey
E-mail: dr.pinarsoysal@hotmail.com | ORCID

Timo Strandberg, EUGMS, Helsinky, Finland
E-mail: timo.strandberg@oulu.fi | ORCID