Luís Luengo

Positions: Full Professor of Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Extremadura. Badajoz (Spain)

Head of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Unit, Endocrinology and Nutrition Section, Badajoz University Hospital, Servicio Extremeño de Salud. Badajoz (Spain)

Chair nº 20 in Academia de Medicina de Extremadura (Endocrinology and Nutrition).

Founder and past-president of Metabolic Inherited Diseases in adults working group of Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition.

Past-president of regional Society for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition (Extremadura, Spain).

Past-member of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition.

Past-member of the National Commission of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Ministry of Health, Spain.

Studies: Medicine (MD), 1997; Food Science and Technology (MSc), 2000; Medicine (PhD), 2003; Master in Basic and Clinical Human Nutrition, 2001; Master in Medical and Clinical Management, 2007; Master in university teaching, 2011.

Clinical training: number 12 (out of 10500) in Spanish public examinations for internship, 1998; clinical nutrition at “La Paz” University Hospital, Madrid (1999 and 2000); endocrinology at Badajoz University Hospital (1998-2002).

PhD direction: director of 6 PhD thesis.

Publications: co-author in 72 articles indexed in JCR, 5 books and 19 chapters in books.