She practices primary care geriatrics at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and directs a unique Geriatric Diabetes Program that she developed at the Joslin Diabetes Center. The primary focus of Dr Munshi’s clinical research is to identify the challenges faced by older individuals with diabetes, to develop strategies to overcome these barriers, and to improve clinical and functional outcomes, including quality of life. Her current research also focuses on the use of technology in the management of older adults with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. She has co‐authored several sets of guidelines locally, nationally, and internationally on the management of older adults with diabetes. She has published many papers of original investigation on the subject of geriatric diabetes and has presented nationally and internationally on this topic.
About the Associate Editors
A.H. Abdelhafiz
Dr A.H. Abdelhafiz is a consultant physician and lead of the Geriatric Department at the Rotherham General Hospital‐NHS Foundation Trust. His interests are ageing, frailty, and diabetes in older people. He is the diabetes advisor for the British Geriatrics Society, champion for Older People Diabetes Network‐North of England, and a member of the Foundation for Diabetes Research in Older People (FDROP). He has written many articles and book chapters in the field of diabetes and frailty in old age.
Beatrice Arosio
Dr Beatrice Arosio is the chief of the laboratory ‘Laboratorio per lo Studio e la Terapia delle Malattie dell’Anziano’ of the Geriatric Unit of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health of the University of Milan. She has coordinated for many years the research group working on biochemical, genetic, and epigenetic markers of successful aging and age‐related diseases. Dr Arosio is the elected president of the board of directors of the Lombardy region of the Italian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.
Julien Delrieu
Dr Julien Delrieu has a significant clinical practice and research focus in the area of ageing and Alzheimer’s disease, in particular the prevention of cognitive disorders. In 2008, he started working in the Toulouse Gérontopôle, initially in the acute Alzheimer care unit; then he became head of the memory centre, where they assess more than 1500 subjects per year. For more than 10 years, he has participated in major preventative trials in these fields (Multidomain Alzheimer Prevention Trial, NOLAN) and has published more than 50 scientific papers in peer‐reviewed journals. Currently, he is involved in the Inspire Bio‐resource Research Platform for Healthy Aging (INSPIRE Platform) to better understand the relationship between biological ageing and age‐related diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Milta Oyola Little
Milta Oyola Little, DO, is an associate professor of geriatric medicine at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, USA. She is a senior fellow in the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, and her primary scholarly interests are interprofessional health education, models for deprescribing, health systems innovations, and nonpharmacologic management of geriatric syndromes to improve outcomes of older adults across healthcare settings. She serves as the medical director for a local continuing care retirement community and is a leader of health systems change, working to establish an Age‐Friendly Health System in her region.
Suzanne Eva Salamon
Dr Suzanne Eva Salamon is an assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She is a geriatrician and practices primary care geriatrics at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she is the associate chief for clinical geriatrics. She is the geriatrics editor of the Harvard Health Letter and has been the medical editor for Harvard Medical School Special Health Reports including ‘Better Balance’ and ‘Aging in Place’. She is active in community public heath, serving on the board of the Brookline Senior Center and writing a monthly column for their newsletter called ‘Ask a Geriatrician’, and she belongs to the Medical Reserve Corps.
List of Contributors
Araceli Abad Department of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University Hospital of Getafe, Madrid, Spain
Jorge Abril‐Pérez Service of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hospital Clínico Universitario‐INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain
Carmen Acosta Department of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University Hospital of Getafe, Madrid, Spain
Charlotte Ågrup University College of London Hospitals NHS Trust and University College London, London, UK
Awais Ahmed Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Guillaume Albaret Department of Geriatrics, Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Stewart G. Albert Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Christian Johannes Amlang Yale Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Richard Anderson Cardiff and Vale University Health Board; Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Sandrine Andrieu Center for Epidemiology and Research in Population health (CERPOP), University of Toulouse, INSERM UMR1295, UPS, Toulouse, France; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
Javier Angulo Servicio de Histología‐Investigación, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
Jean‐Pierre Aquino French Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Paris, France
Almudena Areosa Sastre Department of Geriatrics, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid, Spain
Nandkishor V. Athavale Department of Geriatric Medicine, Rotherham General Hospital, Moorgate Road, Rotherham, UK
Laurent Balardy Gerontopole, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
Connie W. Bales Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Durham VA Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Mario Barbagallo Geriatric Unit, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Michelangela Barbieri Department of Advances Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania, L. Vanvitelli, Italy
Andrea Bellieni Fondazione Policlinico Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
Joël Belmin Groupe Hospitalier Pitié‐Salpêtrière‐Charles