Rocco Barazzoni, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, consultant in Internal Medicine and coordinator for the Obesity Outpatient Unit at Trieste University Hospital. Barazzoni is internationally accepted expert in the field of sarcopenic obesity and current chairman of the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) will be involved in the development of the phenotype the dissemination of the results to scientists across Europe. His research focuses on nutritional and hormonal regulation of energy metabolism and related mechanisms in both clinical and experimental models in the settings of obesity, its metabolic complications and malnutrition.