Matteo Cesari

Matteo Cesari, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Geriatrics at the Università di Milano and Head of the Geriatric Unit at the IRCCS Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri (Milan, Italy). He completed the School of Medicine and the Geriatric Fellowship at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Rome, Italy). At the same institution, he also completed a PhD course on “Preventive Medicine in the Elderly”. Before his current appointment, Dr. Cesari previously worked at the Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC, USA), at the University of Florida-Institute on Aging (Gainesville, FL, USA), and at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (Toulouse, France). His research activities are focused on the frailty condition and strategies aimed at preventing the disabling cascade. Dr. Cesari’s scientific projects have been funded by public agencies (including the US National Institute on Aging, the French Agence Nationale de Recherche, and the Italian Ministry of Health) as well as private institutions (e.g., the Swiss Bridge Foundation). Dr. Cesari actively collaborates with the World Health Organization (WHO) on the themes of healthy ageing and integrated care for older persons. In this context, he has contributed to the preparation and finalization of WHO recommendations on Healthy Ageing (http://www.who.int/ageing/events/world-report-2015-launch/en/) and Integrated Care for Older People (http://www.who.int/ageing/health-systems/integrated-care/en/). He is member of the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing.