Born on March 16, 1959, Palermo, Italy. Full Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Palermo. Head of the Geriatric Unit, University Hospital of Palermo, Italy. Ph.D. in Physiology, University of Rome in 1989. Visiting scientist at the Cardiovascular Center, Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA in 1991 1992. Visiting scientist, at the Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 1992. Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Division of Endocrinology and Hypertension, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA in 1994-1995. Visiting Professor at the Capitol University of Medical Sciences, Bejing (China) in 1994. Editor in Chief of “Giornale di Gerontologia” and Associate Editor of “Aging- Clinical and Experimental Research”. Member of the editorial board of other reputed journals. Has peer reviewed more than 200 papers from international journals, and authored more than 450 scientific papers, and several chapters in medical textbooks. SCOPUS ID: 7005672378

Internal Medicine, Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiometabolic syndrome, Endocrinology and Hypertension, Geriatric Medicine