A new Editor in Chief.

Abstract

After 11 years as Editor in Chief of Obesity Reviews, the time has come to pass on this honor and responsibility to my successor, Professor Brian Oldfield at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. During this time, with the outstanding support of my editorial board, the world Obesity Federation and all those of you who have provided their time and invaluable expertise in reviewing manuscripts, Obesity Reviews has established itself as the top journal in the Obesity field with the highest Impact Factor, the journal to go to for high-quality reviews of the incredibly diverse range of interests related to obesity. The journal has gone fully on line, more and more manuscripts are now open access, access to the journal has expanded worldwide, and the number of manuscript downloads has increased substantially with the help of our current publishers Wiley. It has been a remarkable decade, one in which Obesity has finally been recognized as a disease and one in which the consequences of obesity to health have been tragically illustrated by the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been a decade in which the World Health Organization (WHO) and governments worldwide have recognized the health and economic consequences of obesity to their populace and their country but still struggle to find effective measures to prevent and eventually reverse its prevalence in children and adults. Obesity Reviews has published manuscripts and will continue to publish manuscripts that review all aspects of Obesity and its associated comorbidities, providing new insight into the basic pathophysiology that underpins the development of obesity and its comorbidities, the clinical and surgical approaches to the treatment of obesity, the behavioral approaches for treatment and prevention of obesity across the full age spectrum, and the public health perspectives of obesity among a few of the foci that have been covered. The ability to lean on my editorial board and the huge panel of reviewers has not only facilitated the review process but your comments have helped to give me personally a vast new insight into fields in which I had no expertise. I would like to offer my sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed to the success of the journal and facilitated my time as Editor in Chief. I look forward to following the continued success of the journal and trust that Brian will have the same outstanding support that I have had as the new Editor in Chief.