Books By Gianluca (Associate Professor of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CAN Iacobellis - Author

Prof. Iacobellis obtained his MD cum laude in 1994 at the University of Roma, Italy; he was a Research Fellow at the Centrum for Metabolism/Endocrinology, Karolinska University, Sweden in 1999; a Specialist in Diabetology/Endocrinology & Metabolic Disorders in 2000 and PhD in Endocrinology/Metabolic/Cardiovascular Disorders at the University of Roma, Italy, 2004. In 2004-5 he was a Post-doctoral Clinical Research Fellow at the Human Nutrition Center, Dallas, Texas, and Clinical Research Fellow in the Cardiovascular Obesity Research & Mgmt and Bariatric Clinic at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada 2005-6, where he is now Ass. Professor of Endocrinology, as well as Director of Bariatric Endocrinology, St. Joseph's Hospital, Ontario, Canada. He has written/co-written 60 peer-reviewed papers and ten textbooks. His interest is mainly on cardiovascular risk in obesity. He pioneered echocardiographic epicardial fat quantification as a marker of visceral adiposity and a therapeutic target.