Professor Gianluca Iacobellis is a physician-scientist, M.D., Ph.D. with international academic reputation, research and clinical expertise in obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular risk. Prof Iacobellis is Full Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the University of Miami Hospital Diabetes Service, at the University of Miami, FL, USA. Prof Iacobellis has authored 145 scientific articles and 12 textbooks, with a current h index of 55 and 13845 citations. Prof Iacobellis is considered the world-wide leading expert in the epicardial fat, a new cardiovascular risk factor. He pioneered the research in the epicardial fat and developed the echocardiographic epicardial fat quantification as new marker of visceral fat and therapeutic target. Prof Iacobellis is leading two NIH-funded R01 clinical trials and industry-sponsored investigator initiated studies on GLP-1A and SGLT2i targeting the epicardial fat.