Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Giovanni Targher, M.D., is coordinator of the PhD program in “Clinical and Experimental Medical Sciences” of the University of Verona Medical School. He has received the MD Degree from the University of Verona in 1991 and is a Board Certified Specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetology at the University of Verona from 1996. He received several awards or prizes from the Italian Society of Diabetology, the Italian Society of Endocrinology and the Italian Society for the Study of Atherosclerosis. His major research interest for >20 years has been the causes and prevention of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes using clinical epidemiology and health services translational approaches. In 2021, Dr. Targher has been recognized by Expertscape as “World Expert in Fatty Liver” and placed in the top 0.003% of scholars writing about “fatty liver” in the world over the past 10 years (< a href="https://www.expertscape.com/ex/fatty+liver" target="_blank">https://www.expertscape.com/ex/fatty+liver). He has currently authored more than 470 peer-reviewed original articles and reviews. His articles have been cited over 25,000 times with an h-index of 79 on Web of Science.

nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease