Luigi Ferrucci, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Chief, Longitudinal Studies Section
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

Luigi Ferrucci received his medical degree at the University of Florence, where he also earned his doctor of philosophy degree in Biology and Pathophysiology of Aging. He completed his internship in the intensive care unit of the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics of the University of Florence and became a fellow at INRCA.  Dr. Ferrucci was Assistant Director and Coordinator of the Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology at the INRCA’s Geriatric Department.

Dr. Ferrucci, a geriatrician and gerontologist, is the Director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging and a senior investigator at the Clinical Research Branch of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health.  His research interests involve frailty and mobility disability in the elderly.  He was previously a member of the Department of Geriatric Medicine of the National Institute for Research and Care of the Elderly (INRCA) in Florence, Italy. He was also a visiting scientist at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), where he worked as a researcher for the Established Populations for Epidemiological Studies of the Elderly and a co-investigator for the Women’s Health and Aging Study.

He has written or co-authored more than 250 articles and more than 30 book chapters, and is co-editor of two books. Dr. Ferrucci has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Aging, Clinical and Experimental Research and as a reviewer for several journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association.  He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.  He has received an award from the NIA for his contribution to the design of the Women’s Health and Aging Study and from the Italian Geriatric Society for his productivity in the field of geriatrics.