Dr Matteo Cesari

Responsibilities

1. To promote and support a continuum of integrated and long-term care for older persons.
2. To develop a research prioritization agenda to improve care for healthy ageing.
3. To support the capacity building of health and care workers in the clinical approach to older people.
4. To strengthen the transfer of knowledge to and within Member States to ensure evidence-informed responses and strategies to the ageing of the populations.

Dr. Matteo Cesari is a geriatrician with a PhD in “Preventive medicine in older people”. Before joining the Ageing and Health (AAH) Unit in November 2022, he was a Professor of Geriatrics and Director of the Geriatric Fellowship program at the University of Milan (Italy), and Director of the Geriatric Acute Care Unit at the Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri (Milan, Italy). He had previously worked at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome, Italy), at the Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC, USA), at the University of Florida-Institute on Aging (Gainesville, FL, USA), and at the University of Toulouse (Toulouse, France). 

His research activities have always been focused on the management of geriatric syndromes, in particular the frailty condition, and on strategies aimed at preventing the onset of functional impairment in older people. Dr. Cesari’s research activities have been funded by major private and public institutions, including the European Commission (Bruxelles, Belgium), the Innovative Medicines Initiatives (Bruxelles, Belgium), the US National Institute on Aging (Bethesda, MD, USA), the Velux-Stiftung Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland), the Swiss Bridge Foundation, (Zurich, Switzerland), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Paris, France), and the Italian Ministry for University, Scientific Research and Technology (Rome, Italy). Dr. Cesari has published more than 650 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals in the field of geriatrics and gerontology. He has also played the role of Editor-in-Chief/Associate Editor in several peer-reviewed scientific journals and Coordinator of task forces and working groups for scientific societies.

Dr. Cesari started collaborating with the World Health Organization in 2014, contributing to the preparation of the World Report on Ageing and Health. He has also participated in the activities of the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing (CCHA) since its creation in 2016. His activities are today focused on the promotion of healthy ageing through the dissemination of geriatric medicine and the implementation of integrated, long-term care for older people.