Giovanni Lodi is an associate professor of clinical duties at the Università degli Studi di Milano. He qualified in Dentistry at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 1991. In 1998, he obtained his PhD from the University of London, and the same year he started to work for the oral medicine service of the dental clinic of the university hospital of Milano (Italy). In 2002, he joined the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the Università degli Studi di Milano. He is currently a honorary senior lecturer at the Department of Oral Medicine-Eastman Dental Institute-UCL London, a member of the Steering Committee of the World Workshop on Oral Medicine, and an active editor in chief of Oral Diseases, the international leading journal in oral medicine (IF 2.31). His top areas of expertise are Leukoplakia, Lichen Planus, Burning Mouth Syndrome, and Glossitis. His clinical research consists of co-authoring 136 peer reviewed articles and participating in three clinical trials in the past 15 years.