Professor Angela Favaro trained and worked as a psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist from 1988, with a major focus in eating disorders. She obtained her PhD in Psychiatric Sciences in 1998 from University of Verona and her Master of Science in Genetic Epidemiology in 2003 from University of Pavia. Since this time, her expertise in both clinical and research issues relating to eating disorders has been recognized in a number of ways.