Editors

About the Editor

Dr. Stefania Maggi is a Geriatrician and Epidemiologist with expertise in both Clinical Geriatrics and Epidemiology of Aging. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of aging and the impact that lifelong health promotion and disease prevention programs have on healthy aging. She is a Board-Certified Geriatrician (University of Padua, Italy) and also obtained a Master’s in Public Health in Epidemiology in 1987 and completed two-year postdoctoral training in Epidemiology, both at the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, MD, USA.  Dr. Maggi was the Coordinator of the WHO Program for Research on Aging based at NIA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA from 1990 to 1993. She is currently working as Research Director at the CNR Aging Branch-Institute of Neuroscience in Padua. From 2001 to 2019, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Federation for Aging (AFAR), New York, NY, US, and since 2010, Director General of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation. Dr. Maggi is Past President of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS). Currently, she is a member of the Board of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG). She has authored over 500 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Aging Clinical and Experimental Research.