Niccolò Marchionni

Past-President, Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SIGG) and Italian Society of Geriatric Cardiology (SICGe) Cardiologist and Geriatrician, Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracovascular Medicine at the University of Florence and Careggi Hospital, Italy. From 2009 to 2016, he has been the Chairman of the Geriatric Expert Group established at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). His research interests include cardiovascular diseases in the older population in both the clinical and epidemiological areas and pharmaco-epidemiology, particularly focusing on use of administrative databases aimed at assessing the adherence to good practices in the older, comorbid and frail cardiac patients. Professor Marchionni is member of several Italian national medical societies and is in the board of international peer-reviewed journals. He has co-authored 325 papers published in peer-reviewed international scientific journals (2020 cumulative IF 1482, H index 57) and has participated in several scientific books on geriatrics and cardiovascular medicine.