Stefano Tarantini is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and an adjunct in the Department of Nutritional Sciences. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and was awarded a pre-doctoral and postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. His research interests include vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID); antioxidant diets; mechanisms of vascular aging; effect of diet on vascular aging; age-related endothelial dysfunction; neurovascular coupling; intra-cerebral microhemorrhages (microbleeds); cerebrovascular reactivity; senolytics therapies; nutritional anti-aging interventions.