Patrizia Mecocci received her M.D. from the University of Perugia (Italy), School of Medicine, where she completed a residency program in Geriatrics. She also earned a Ph.D. in Biology and Physiopathology of Aging at the University of Modena (Italy). She is a full professor in Gerontology and Geriatrics at the University of Perugia, and a Head of the Department of Geriatrics, University Hospital S.M. Misericordia, Perugia (Italy). She has been appointed by Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden) as Foreign Adjunct Professor at the Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences, and Society (NVS). Her research interests mainly focus on several aspects of clinical and neuropsychological aspects of aging and biological studies on aging with a specific interest in oxidative stress.