Dr. Delgado Lista is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Nursing of the University of Córdoba, Spain, where he also serves as Vice Dean for Hospital Affairs. He holds a joint appointment as a specialist physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Reina Sofía University Hospital of Córdoba, and is Co-Principal Investigator of the research group GC-09 at the Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research. Among his leadership positions, he is the current National Coordinator of the Nutrition and Lifestyle Group of the Spanish Society of Arteriosclerosis.

With regard to his scientific output, he has participated in more than 50 Phase II–IV Clinical Trials, serving as Principal Investigator in 18 of them. He has currently published over 200 ISI-JCR indexed papers, 7 of which are “Highly Cited in Field” and 3 with more than 200 citations. His H-index is 37, with an average of more than 20 citations per article, and he has been cited over 5,000 times. He has been Principal Investigator of several National and International (European Union) Projects.

Dr. Delgado has also been the Clinical Coordinator of the Cordioprev Study, whose main article was published in The Lancet, on the impact of cardioprotective diets on the recurrence of cardiovascular disease. One of the main research lines of Dr. Delgado Lista focuses on the influence of diet on chronic diseases (with special emphasis on cardiovascular disease, obesity, and Diabetes Mellitus).