Raffaele Pezzilli is Chief of the Pancreas Unit at Sant'Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy. He completed his MD degree at the University of Bologna in 1983. He specialized in Internal Medicine in 1988 and in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy in 1992 at the at University of Bologna. He was also the Assistant Professor of the Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, Italy. He is serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals and as a reviewer of more than 50 journals. He has authored or co-authored 450 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 125 book chapters.