About me

Giovanni Targher, M.D., is an Associate professor of Endocrinology & Diabetes at University of Verona Medical School and Senior Consultant of Endocrinology at the Diabetes and Endocrinology Division, Hospital Trust, Verona, Italy. He is also coordinator of the PhD programme 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. He is serving as a Co-editor of Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases (NMCD) and Editorial board member of several reputed scientific journals. His major research interest for >20 years has been the causes and prevention of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes using clinical epidemiology and health services translational approaches. In 2019 it has been recognized by Expertscape as “World Expert in Fatty Liver” being he placed in the top 0.1% of scholars writing about Fatty Liver in the world over the past 10 years (http://www.expertscape.com/ex/fatty+liver). He has currently authored more than 400 peer reviewed original articles and reviews. His articles have been cited over 20,000 times with an h-index of 69 on Scopus and Webof Science.