Professor,
Department of Internal Medicine,
University of Pisa School of Medicine,
Pisa, Italy.

Ele Ferrannini is the Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa School of Medicine; Chief of the Metabolism Unit of the CNR (National Research Council) Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa and Clinical Professor of Medicine, Diabetes Division, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA. From 1977 to 1978, he was a Visiting Investigator at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1979 he became a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fogarty International Centre of the National Institutes of Health, Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, USA and in 1988 he accepted his current position as Clinical Professor of Medicine, Diabetes Division at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Professor Ferrannini has been involved in over 350 publications in the field of diabetes, metabolism, hypertension, obesity and cardiovascular risk factors. He was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of Diabetologia, the official journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and is currently the President of EASD.