Giuseppe Barbaro is Chief of Cardiology and Echocardiography Unit, Department of Medical Pathophysiology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He is active member of several National and International Societies of Internal Medicine and Cardiology and author of more than 200 scientific publications. Current field of clinical investigation regards the study of new markers of visceral obesity in HIV-infected subjects with lipodistrophy syndrome as well as in HIV-uninfected subjects with obesity and metabolic syndrome.