Editorial Board
33 Editors in 9 Countries/Region









Editor-in-Chief
Amedeo Lonardo 
a.lonardo@libero.it Operating Unit of Metabolic Syndrome, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: MAFLD, NAFLD, endocrine disorders, sex differences in NAFLD, metabolic syndrome, liver, hypobetalipoproteinemia, dysmetabolism in HCV infection, diabetes in cirrhosis
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Christopher D. Byrne 
Endocrinology & Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Research Interests: liver lipid metabolism, endocrinology, dyslipidaemias, metabolic liver disease, type 2 diabetes, NAFLD
Giovanni Targher 
Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease
Inter-relationships Between COVID-19 and Metabolic Disorders
Associate Editors
Luigi Elio Adinolfi 
Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Piazza Miraglia, Naples, Italy.
Research Interests: intrahepatic cholestasis, HCV cryoglobulinemia, chronic viral hepatitis, NAFLD, HCC
Pietro Andreone 
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Research Interests: chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver immunology, liver transplantation, liver stem cells
Gyorgy Baffy 
Department of Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease, steatohepatitis, portal hypertension, cirrhosis
Stefano Ballestri 
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Pavullo, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: NAFLD, metabolic syndrome, association between NAFLD and cardiovascular diseases, ultrasonography
Stefano Bellentani 
Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Italian Liver Foundation, Basovizza, Italy.
Research Interests: NAFLD, NASH, epidemiology, chronic viral hepatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, metabolic disease
Helena Cortez-Pinto 
Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal.
Research Interests: NASH trials, metabolism, nutrition
Leonardo M. Fabbri 
Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Section of Respiratory Diseases, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Research Interests: respiratory diseases, metabolic medicine, endocrinology geriatrics, metabolism
Silvia R. Fargion 
Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation Ca' Granda IRCCS Foundation, Policlinico Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Research Interests: metabolic and virus liver diseases (MAFLD, NAFLD, HCV and HBV chronic hepatitis), vascular disorders in metabolic liver diseases, iron and copper induced liver diseases (hemochromatosis, Wilson disease)
Giampiero Francica 
Interventional Ultrasound Unit, Pineta Grande Hospital, Castel Volturno, Italy.
Research Interests: ultrasound, diagnostic, biopsy and ablation of liver tumors
Fulvio Lonardo
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA.
Research Interests: morphological, molecular, epidemiological, thoracic malignancies
Luca Roncucci 
Department of Maternal, Child and Adult Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: colorectal carcinogenesis, hereditary colorectal cancer, inflammation, chemoprevention of tumors
Colon cancer in a 12-year-old girl with hypertriglyceridemia
Ayako Suzuki 
Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Research Interests: NAFLD, NASH, biological disparities, sex differences, gender differences, drug-induced liver injury, hepatotoxicity
Claudio Tiribelli 
Fondazione Italiana Fegato-ONLUS, Trieste, Italy.
Research Interests: fatty liver and associated diseases, liver damage, stem cells in HCC, personalized treatment, NAFLD
Editorial Board Members
Juan Pablo Arab 
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Western University, Ontario, Canada.
Research Interests: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, MAFLD, NAFLD, steatosis, fatty liver, alcohol, alcohol-associated liver disease
Annalisa Berzigotti 
Swiss Liver Center, Visceral Surgery and Medicine Clinic (UVCM), Inselspital, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland.
Research Interests: portal hypertension, non-invasive assessment of liver disease, obesity and liver disease
Fernando Bril 
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Research Interests: insulin resistance, NAFLD, NASH, liver steatosis, fatty liver disease, lipotoxicity
Weiyi Fang 
Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: tumor pharmacology, tumor pathogenesis, nanomaterial drug
Águeda González-Rodríguez 
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" (IIBM), Madrid, Spain.
Research Interests: liver, metabolism, NAFLD, fibrosis, insulin resistance, hepatocytes
Giovanni Guaraldi 
Modena HIV Metabolic Clinic, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: HIV, immune-metabolism, NAFLF/MAFLD, lipodystrophy, aging, solid organ transplant, COVID-19
Youngmi Jung 
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea.
Research Interests: liver fibrosis, liver regeneration, stem cell therapy, cellular reprogramming, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Tatiana Y Kostrominova 
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine Northwest, Indianapolis, USA.
Research Interests: skeletal muscle, tendon, aging, denervation, obesity, myokines
Mariana Machado 
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hospital de Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon, Portugal.
Research Interests: non-alcoholic/metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, alcohol-associated liver disease, liver cirrhosis, end-stage liver disease, pathophysiology of liver disease
MariaLuz Martinez-Chantar 
Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Bizkaia, Spain.
Research Interests: liver disease, mechanism, metabolism, post-translational modifications, translational science
Chiara Mussi 
Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Civil Hospital, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: lipid-lowering drugs, osteoporotic, cardiology, atrial fibrillation, dementia, older patients
Laura Nagy 
Department of Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Research Interests: alcohol-associated liver disease, macrophage biology, inflammation, cell death mechanisms, NAFLD/NASH
Sonia Najjar 
Diabetes Institute, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA.
Research Interests: insulin clearance, insulin metabolism, lipid metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, fibrosis, metabolic diseases, abdominal obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, atherosclerosis
Norbert Stefan 
Institute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of the Helmholtz Center Munich, Tubingen, Germany.
Research Interests: pathophysiology of obesity and type 2 diabetes, pathophysiology and consequences of NAFLD, metabolically healthy obesity, hepatokines
Saula Vigili de Kreutzenberg 
Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolic Diseases, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Research Interests: cardiovascular, NAFLD, type 2 diebetes, endocrinology, metabolic diseases
Wah Yang 
Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: metabolic and bariatric surgery, obesity, metabolic disorders
Jinrong Zhou 
Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: nutrition, diet, metabolic disorders, cancer prevention
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