Antonio Cherubini, is Director of Geriatrics and Geriatric Emergency Care at IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy. He is Associate Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics at the Perugia University Medical School. He was research fellow at the department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, from 1997-1998. He is co-author of several books of geriatric medicine in Italy. He is author of more than 200 papers in peer reviewed international journals. He is currently member of the Geriatric Expert Group of the European Medicine Agency.

Roberto Bernabei, Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.

Luigi Ferrucci is the Scientific Director of the National Institute of Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Niccolò Marchionni, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, Unit of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Florence and Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy.

Bruno Vellas, Gerontopole de Toulouse. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse; INSERM Unit 1027. University Toulouse III. Toulouse, France.

Stephanie Studenski, Professor of Medicine and Director of Research, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Program Director, Pittsburgh Pepper Center; Director, AOC in Geriatric Medicine, Staff Physician at the GRECC, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.