ALESSANDRA MARENGONI
MD, PhD. Especialista en Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria. Profesora asociada.
University of Brescia, IT and Spedali Civili Academic Hospital.
Alessandra Marengoni is a medical doctor, specialized in Internal Medicine at the University of Brescia (Italy) and PhD in Geriatric Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet.
Alessandra Marengoni is currently employed as Associate Professor at the University of Brescia, Italy. She works as a geriatrician in the Geriatric Unit of one of the main hospitals in Northern Italy. She is currently associated to the Ageing Research Center - KI and she is involved in the research group studying multimorbidity in the older population.
The aims are to define chronic diseases and multimorbidity, to select diseases to be included in the definition, to evaluate occurrence, risk factors, and consequences of multimorbidity in the old population and to investigate patterns of multimorbidity.