

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
J.-P. Michel, Emeritus professor of geriatric medicine, Geneva University, Switzerland, Past EUGMS president, WHO expert aging and life course program,
Member of the French Academy of Medicine.
jean-pierre.michel@unige.chASSOCIATE EDITORS
M. Barbagallo, Full professor, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy. International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Clinical Director European
section
A. Benetos, Full professor of geriatric medicine, University of Nancy, France, Academic director of the EUGMS (2014-2017)
J. Bousquet, Emeritus professor of medicine University of Montpellier, France, Official representative of the European Innovative Partnership, Active Healthy
Ageing, European Community, Brussels
A.J. Cruz-Jentoft, Head of the geriatric department, University Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain, Past EUGMS president
S. Maggi, Research Director, Institute of Neuroscience, Aging Branch-Padua, Italy, President EUGMS, 2016-2017
F. Martin, Professor of Medical Gerontology, King’s college, London; elect-EUGMS President 2018-2019
T. Strandberg, Full professor of geriatric medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland, EUGMS immediate past president 2014-2015
N. Van Den Noorgate, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Head of the geriatric department, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; President of the European Academy
for Medicine of Ageing (EAMA).
EDITORIAL BOARD
J.-P. Baeyens (University of Luxembourg Kirchberg, Luxembourg), H. Blain (University of Montpellier, France), C. Bollheimer (University of Aix-la-Chapelle,
Germany), M. Bonnefoy (University of Lyon-Sud, Lyon, France), M. Cankurtaran (University of Ankara, Turkey), T. Chevalley (University of Geneva, Switzerland),
A. Cherubini (Instituto Nazionale di Riposo e Cura per Anziani, Ancona, Italy, EUGMS academic board member), S. Conroy (University of Leicester, UK),
P. Crome (University College London, UK), A.W. Ekdahl (University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden, EUGMS executive board member), J. Flamaing (University
of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium), M. Gogol (Lindenbrunn, Germany), T. Grodzicki (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. EUGMS academic board member),
K. Kinugawa-Bourron (Pierre & Marie University, Sorbonne-Paris-Cité Universities, EUGMS academic board member), T. Kostka (University of Łódz´, Poland),
F. Muller (University of Geneva, Switzerland), D. O’Neill (EUGMS past president, Dublin, Ireland), J. Petermans (University of Liège, EUGMS executive board
member), M. Petrovic (University of Ghent, EUGMS academic board member), K. Pitkälä (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, EUGMS academic board
member), A.A. Sayer (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, EUGMS academic board member), G. Sergi (University of Padova, Italy), C. Sieber (University
Friedrich-Alexander d’Erlangen-Nuremberg-Germany, EUGMS academic board member), E. Topinkova (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, past
clinical director of the IAGG-ER), A. Ungar (University of Florence, Italy), M. Verny (Pierre & Marie University, Sorbonne-Paris-Cité Universities, Paris, France),
A. Vilches-Moraga (Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust Ageing and Complex Medicine Directorate, Salford, UK, EUGMS executive board member)
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD
H. Arai (Director of the National Center of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Nagoya, Japan), O. Beauchet (MacGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada),
C.A. Cano-Gutierrez (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia), P. Chan (Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China),
L.-K. Chen (National Yang Ming University, Taiwan), B. Dong (University of Sichuan, China), C. Kyung-Hwan (Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul,
Korea), T. Fulop (University of Sherbrook, Sherbrook, QC, Canada), L.M. Gutierrez Robledo (Director of the National Institute of Aging of Mexico, Mexico),
J. Li (Director of the National Institute of Gerontology, Beijing, China), P.P. Marin Larrain (Past IAGG president, Central and South America, Santiago, Chile),
X. Li (General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, China), F. Morales Martinez (University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica), J.E. Morley (Saint
Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri, USA), J. Ouslander (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA), M.P. Paixo Junior (Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), J. Tao (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China)
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