**About the Editors**

**Marwan El Ghoch**, MD earned a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Bologna, Italy, and postgraduate studies in Clinical Nutrition from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. He is considered an expert on obesity and eating disorders treatments, and an established international leader in the study of body composition in eating disorders and obesity. He currently holds the role of head of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at Beirut Arab University in Lebanon. He is the author of more than 100 papers published in high-ranking peer-review journals in the field of medicine, human nutrition, and dietetics, and he is a member of the editorial of several scientific journals.

**Said El Shamieh**, Ph.D. is currently an associate professor of Human Genetics and Genomics at Beirut Arab University. Dr. Shamieh go<sup>t</sup> an M.Sc. in Molecular, cellular, and Structural Biology, Universite de Lorraine, France, then undertook a Ph.D. in Human Genetics at the same University. ´ In 2012, he started a post-doctorate fellowship, Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne Universites, Pierre ´ et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Dr. Shamieh's Research focuses on undergoing genotype–phenotype associations to identify genetic variants being implicated in cardiovascular disease risk factors and inherited retinal diseases. He published 50 international papers in journals; *American Journal of Human Genetics*, *Human Molecular Genetics*, and *Genes*. He is also a co-inventor of the patent WO2013093091. He currently serves as a reviewer for numerous journals such as *British Journal of Ophthalmology*, *Genes*, *Translational Vision Science and Technology*, *International Journal of Molecular Sciences*, *Clinica Chimica Acta*.
