Josep Vidal

Chief of Endocrinology and Nutrition Service, Hospital Clinic; Barcelona, Spain

Josep Vidal is a specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Digestive Diseases at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Head of the Research Group on Obesity, Lipids and Diabetes at the Institute of Biomedical Research Augusto Pi y Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and of a research group at the Center for Biomedical Research Network in Diabetes (CIBERDEM).

Josep Vidal is also an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, where he teaches in the degrees of Medicine and Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Josep Vidal has a PhD in Medicine from the University of Barcelona and did a postdoctoral stay at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA). His research interest is especially focused on understanding the mechanisms that explain the health benefits of weight loss interventions in people with obesity.