Full Professor of Internal Medicine, Chairman, Department of Medicine-DIMED, University of Padua. ITALY Specialization in Endocrinology and Internal Medicine at Padua Medical School Italy. Chief of the Centre for the Study and Integrated Therapy of Obesity accredited as an EASO (European Society for the Study on Obesity) Collaborating Center for Obesity Management. The main topics are the studies on the pathophysiology of obesity and type 2 diabetes and their complications. He has published widely in the area of diabetes and obesity with over 300 original papers. Current h-index:53.