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 Association of Clinical Endocrinologists the Italian Society for the Study of Atherosclerosis and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He is serving as an editorial board member of several reputed scientific journals. His major research interest for >15 years has been the cause and prevention of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular disease using clinical epidemiology and health services translational approaches. He has authored more than 310 peer reviewed scientific articles.