Prof. Dr. Simona Cernea is a Professor of Diabetes, Nutrition, and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș, and a senior physician at the Emergency County Clinical Hospital Târgu Mureș, where she has worked since 2009. She serves as a Coordinator of the Nutrition and Dietetics Undergraduate Program and the Clinical and Community Nutrition Master's Program at the university. In 2008, she worked as Clinical Research Associate at Universita Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, from 2006 to 2008 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Yale University in USA, Department Immunobiology, and from 2005 to 2006 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University in the City of New York, USA, Department of Medicine. Her current research interests include NAFLD, cardio-renal, and other comorbidities of type 2 diabetes.