Professor Ioanna Gouni-Berthold is Head of the Lipid Research Clinic at the Policlinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine at the University of Cologne, Germany. She is an Executive Board Member of the International Atherosclerosis Society and of the German, Austrian and Swiss Society for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases. Her research on lipids has been published in Journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and the JAMA.