Dr Carmine Finelli is currently senior registrar of the Department of Internal Medicine, ASL Napoli 3 Sud, Naples, Italy, and Professor of Internal Medicine at the Federico II University Medical School in Naples, Nursing School, Learning Centre of Nola (Naples). Dr. Finelli was born in Naples (13/06/1974) and obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1999 from the Federico II University Medical School in Naples discussing the thesis, “Prevalence of eating disorders in obese outpatients”. He obtained his PhD in “Clinic and Pathology of Chronic-Degenerative Cardiovascular, Rheumatic and Nutritional diseases” from the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Medical School in Naples in 2004. His research work was carried at the Clinical Nutrition Unit of the same Department. He also obtained his postgraduate degree in Internal Medicine, in 2008, from the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Medical School in Naples. His main research interests are in polymorphism genetic in severe obesity; indicators of the nutritional status; pathogenetic mechanisms of insulin resistance, hypertension and fatty liver in obesity; physical activity and energy expenditure in human obesity; metabolic and nutritional status in severely obese patients treated with bariatric surgery in the short- and long-term. He is also the author of more than 180 papers, 80 of which being peer-reviewed international journals.