Dr. Dimitrios Patoulias is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, with a clinical and research focus in Cardiometabolic Medicine. He has authored or co-authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles indexed in PubMed and serves as a reviewer for more than 130 journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, BMJ, and Nature Reviews Endocrinology. Dr. Patoulias holds multiple distinctions, including Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (London), the European Federation of Internal Medicine, the European Association for the Study of Obesity, and the World Obesity Federation's SCOPE program. His current h-index as of August 2026 is 41 in Google Scholar.