Charlotte Beaudart Editor

Nicola Veronese is a certified trained geriatrician, currently working as Senior Researcher in Geriatrics at the University of Palermo, Italy. His research is mainly epidemiological and focused on the most common diseases affecting older people. In particular, his interest areas are osteoarticular, metabolic (including obesity and diabetes) and cardiovascular diseases, as well as nutrition. He is the author of more than 350 articles published in national and international scientific journals, and of numerous abstracts accepted by national and international congresses.

Charlotte Beaudart works at the Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics of the University of Liège, Belgium. She obtained her PhD in Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics in the University of Liège, Belgium in 2016. She obtained an FNRS fellowship for her doctoral research. It is in this context that she has obtained various awards and scholarships from the Belgian Bone Club, the Leon Frédéric Fund and the IOF (International Osteoporosis Foundation). In 2018, she received the prestigious ESCEO-IOF-Herbert Fleisch Medal.

Shaun Sabico completed his medical training at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines and obtained his PhD in medical sciences (2018) from Warwick Medical School, Warwick University, UK. He works as the Deputy Director and Assistant Professor at the Chair for Biomarkers of Chronic Diseases, Biochemistry Department at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He has authored almost 200 scientific papers/abstracts published in reputable journals and has received numerous honors from international scientific conferences, including the Young Investigator Award from the World Congress of Osteoporosis, which he won twice: in Italy (2017) and in Poland (2018). He is the 2019 recipient of the International Osteoporosis Foundation’s prestigious Pierre Meunier Young Scientist Award.