Antonio Cherubini

Biography

Education
• 1985-1992 Perugia University Medical School, Perugia, Italy.
29/2/1992, Doctor of Medicine (110/110 cum laude)
• 1992-1996 Residency in geriatric medicine at the Perugia University Medical school.
• 1996-2000 PhD in Experimental and Clinical Gerontology at the Padua University

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
• 1996 (May and June). Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), VA hospital, Gainesville, Fl., under the supervision of D.T. Lowenthal, M.D., Ph.D., Director.
• February 1997- September 1998. Research Fellow at the department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, under the supervision of. Flint Beal, MD and Walter Koroshetz, MD. Whitaker cardiovascular institute, Boston University medical school, under the supervision of Balz Frei, PhD.
•July-September 2000 Visiting scientist at the Neuroscience Laboratory at the Human Nutrition research Center on Aging, Tufts University in collaboration with Antonio Martin, MD, PhD.
•January-February and June- July 2004 Courtesy Associate. Longitudinal Branch Section. National Institute on Aging. Baltimore, MD, USA working with Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD, Director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Clinical Role
Physician in an acute care geriatric ward and in a geriatric outpatient clinic (2000-2012), Perugia University Hospital, Perugia, Italy.
Chief, Geriatria, Accettazione geriatrica e Centro di ricerca per l'invecchiamento, Geriatric Hospital, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy (2012-)
Chief, department of frailty, post acute care and rehabilitation (2022-)

Academic Role
Researcher at the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics in Perugia (1999-2004)
Associate professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics at University of Perugia (2004-january 2024)
Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, Università Politecnica delle Marche (feb 2024-)

Membership
Societá Italiana di Gerontologia e Geriatria (SIGG)
Società Italiana di Medicina Interna (SIMI)
Associazione Italiana di Psicogeriatria (AIP)
European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS)
European Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium
Società Italiana dei geriatri ospedalieri e territoriali (SIGOT)

Role in Scientific Societies
Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Gerontological and Geriatric Society (SIGG) (2005-2011).
Member (Treasurer) of the Executive Board of the EUGMS (European Union Geriatric Medicine Society) (2007-2013).
Member of the Academic Board of the EUGMS (European Union Geriatric Medicine Society) (2014-2021)
Chair of the pharmacology special interest group of the EUGMS (until 2022)
Member of the Executive Board of the COLMED 09 (2010-2012)
Member of the Executive Board of Società Italiana dei geriatri ospedalieri e territoriali (SIGOT) (2017-)
Academic Director if EuGMS (2022-2023)
Representative of Italy in the general assembly of EuGMS (2024-)

Role in International bodies
Member of the Geriatric Expert Group at EMA (2011-2023)

Role in Regional bodies
Member of the Commission for drug appropriaeness Regione Marche (2014-2018)
Member of the Ethics Committee of Regione Marche (2014-2017)
Member and Vice president of the Ethics Committee of INRCA (2017-2023)
Editorial Activity
Member of the Editorial board
Editor of the Journal of Nutrition Health and Aging, clinical trial and aging section (2003-2017)
Associate Editor of European Geriatric Medicine (2018-)
Associate Editor of Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Associate Editor Panminerva medica
Aging Clin Exp Res
Journal of Aging and Frailty
Geriatric Care
Giornale di gerontologia

Referee
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition;
Biochimica Biophysica Acta ; Drug Safety; Giornale di Gerontologia, Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics;
Journal of Gerontology, Medical Sciences; Journal of Nutrition Health and Aging
Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular disease; Stroke, The Lancet, Age Ageing, Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders; JAMDA; Journal of The American Geriatrics Society; BMC Geriatrics; Drugs Aging, BMJ

Main research topics

Role of antioxidants and micronutrients in aging , age-related diseases (stroke, atherosclerosis, dementia, osteoporosis, sarcopenia) and frailty;
Geriatric depression;
Comprehensive geriatric assessment in nursing home residents.
Stroke in older people.
Benefits of physical activity in the elderly
Pharmacotherapy in older patients: exclusion of older people from clinical trials, inappropriate prescription
Non pharmacological interventions
Delirium


Author of more than 500 papers in peer reviewed journals, several book chapters in international and national books as well as of five books in Italian. Editor of otwobook in English: Clinical trials in older adults". Wiley, 2015 nad Optimizing pharmacotherapy in older adults. Spinger, 2023.

H index (scopus): 84 (April 2024).