Dr. Pan is a professor at the School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research mainly focuses on the determinants and consequences of obesity and chronic metabolic diseases, like type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He has published over 240 SCI papers with citations over 13000 and an H-index of 60, including papers on NEJM, JAMA, BMJ. Dr. Pan is supported by the NSFC regular and key projects, National key Research & Development project, and are establishing cohort studies for type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus to investigate their causes and consequences. Dr. Pan currently serves as an associate editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Nutrition & Metabolism, and on the editorial board for several other international and Chinese journals. Dr. Pan is also the vice chair for the Basic Nutrition Council and Nutritional Epidemiology Council of the Chinese Nutrition Society.