Prof. Gema Frühbeck (RNutr, MD, PhD) combines everyday work in the clinical setting as Co-Director of the Obesity Unit and Senior Consultant of the Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), with basic research as Head of the Metabolic Research Laboratory of the University of Navarra and Project Leader of the CIBERobn (Centre of Excellence Network in Obesity and Nutrition of the Spanish Institute of Health). The efforts of her group are focused on studying the impact of adiposity on the development of comorbidities. Frühbeck’s group has taken the step forward of using body composition measurements routinely in the clinical assessment of patients in order to analyse the relevance of body fat -beyond BMI- in comorbidity development. In 1997 with a fellowship grant of The Royal Society Frühbeck performed a postdoctoral stay in Prof. Andrew Prentice's Energy Group at the MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge, UK. Prof. Frühbeck has been President of the European Association for the Study of Obesity from 2012-2015, being currently Co-Chair of its Scientific Advisory Board. In the last years Prof. Frühbeck has been recipient of numerous awards and honours related to her work in the obesity area.