Prof. Dr. Piero Portincasa is a full professor of Internal medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences & Human Oncology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy. He is the President of the European Society for Clinical Investigation. He is teacher and promoter of the Bari English Medical Curriculum (BEMC), the course totally taught in English to achieve the Degree in Medicine and Surgery in Bari. He earned his PhD at University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is also the Visiting Professor of “Iuliu-Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His research interests include gastrointestinal motility & functional diagnostics, hepato-biliary pathophysiology and gallstone disease, intestinal water transport and lipid homeostasis. He is a member of the Councillor Italian Society Internal Medicine.