Dr. Florinela Adriana Cătoi is a full Professor at the Pathophysiology Department form “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Specialist in Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases. She completed her education in this field within the professional exchange she benefited from in 2003-AMD/IDF Grant—Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Azienda Ospedaliera Careggi—D-H Geriatrico e Diabetologico, Florence, Italy. She has been working in the obesity/metabolic surgery field for more than 15 years, and she obtained the title of Doctor in Medicine in 2009 with a PhD thesis entitled "The effects of surgical therapy in obesity". She published several peer-reviewed articles as well as books/book chapters on the bariatric/metabolic surgery topic, and she defended her habilitation thesis with the thesis “Physiopathological implications in obesity and bariatric surgery” in 2020.