Patrizia Mecocci MD, PhD

Patrizia Mecocci graduated as Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from Perugia University Medical School, Italy. She then obtained her PhD in ‘Biology and Physiopathology of Aging’ at the University of Modena, Italy. She completed her residency in Geriatrics at the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Perugia, becoming full Professor there in 2006. At present she is Director of the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, of the School of Specialization in Geriatrics and of the Course in Speech Therapy at the University of Perugia.

she has spent time as a research fellow at the University of Lund in Sweden and at Harvard Medical School in the USA, and as visiting professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Professor Mecocci sits on the editorial board of several journal such as JAD (Senior Editor), JAD Reports, Aging. She works in partnership with various European Union funded projects concerned with improving the diagnosis and treatment of dementia, problems related to aging, and healthcare opportunities for an aging Europe. Professor Mecocci has authored/co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and has contributed 30 books/chapters and monographs.