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Dr. José Francisco Parodi García is a geriatrician and ordinary professor of Geriatrics and Public Health at San Martín de Porres University in undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. He is the Director of the Postgraduate Unit in the Facultad de Medicina Humana of the Univerisdad de San Martín de Porres. He is also Director of the Aging Research Center -CIEN. He is a researcher certified by the Peruvian state with the National Registry of Researchers - RENACYT 15414 (Level I "Outstanding Researcher") He studied human medicine at the San Martín de Porres University, did the Geriatrics Specialty at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and postgraduate courses at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has a Master's in Public Health with a mention in Epidemiology, PhD in Medicine. He has graduated from the Latin American Academy of Medicine for the Elderly (ALMA) and from the courses on Design of Virtual Teaching Environments and virtual tutor given in the Virtual Field of PAHO. He has been accredited as Master Trainer of Stanford University Self-Management Program For Chronic Disease “Taking Control of Your Health”. He has graduate from Medical Teaching Learning & Innovation Program. He is also a graduate of the course Skills and Tools for Innovation Management at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Graduated from the "Training to Teach in Medical Program" certification issued by the Harvard University School of Medicine in its 2020-2021 edition. He has finished a master in education in USMP. He is currently a ad-honorem member of the Committee of Experts on the Elderly Life Stage of the Ministry of Health of Peru. Dr. Parodi has advised Latin American ministries of health and social issues on issues of public health and aging. Likewise, he has been invited expert and temporary advisor to international institutions (ECLAC, PAHO / WHO) on the subject of aging and health, in academic events and health policies. He is an external consultant for the Center for Research on Longevity, Aging and Health (CITED) in Havana - Cuba. At the clinical level, Dr. Parodi worked for 17 years, in the Geriatric Center of the Peruvian Navy, in addition to other clinics in Lima and in rural services in the Peruvian jungle. From 2010 to 2021 he was geriatrician and Medical Director of the Bamboo Clinic, which is a day hospital Specialist in medicine for the elderly with a life course approach. He has participated in projects on rural aging in Peru and Ecuador, analyzing the characteristics of aging in these areas, emphasizing the response capacity of health services to the health problems of older adults, as well as the adequacy and use of tools for geriatric assessment proposed by the Ministry of Health. During one of the projects in Peru, a training strategy was designed for health professionals in the use of tools for comprehensive geriatric assessment in rural older adults. In 2007 he co-led, through ALMA, a program to improve health and reduce disability in the elderly through the design and implementation of an innovative training strategy for primary care physicians in Peru and Colombia. He is the author and co-author of numerous articles in national and international clinical journals and books. He has participated as academic coordinator, moderator and speaker in various national and international courses. Orcid: 0000-0002-0336-0584. Scopus ID: 54450450100. He was the president the Executive Committee of ALMA and now is part of the board. He was a member of the Board of the Panamerican Health Organization Foundation (PAHO Foundation) from 2010 to 2015. , he is a member of the Society of Geriatric Medicine (SEMEG) of Spain, full member of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, and has participated as a member of the International committee of the Colombian Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. In Peru, he is a regular member of the Peruvian Geriatrics Society, serving on several occasions as a member of the Board of Directors.