**About the Editor**

**Luis Rodrigo**, MD is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He obtained his PhD in 1975 and has since developed a long teaching and research career spanning 42 years. He has published a total of 695 scientific papers, 413 written in English and the rest in Spanish. He has been the main investigator of a total of 45 clinical trials and has directed 40 doctoral theses. He has written 42 chapters published in books on various topics and is editor of 32 books within his specialty and on related processes. These areas of interest are mainly related to celiac disease and autoimmune-associated diseases, *Helicobacter pylori*, chronic HCV infections, and all types of infectious diseases generally. His research output is represented by a h-index of 49.
