Meet the editor

Rudolf Chlup graduated from Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, and attended postgraduate courses in Prague, Karlsburg, Edinburgh, London, Bucharest, Moscow, Sophia, Düsseldorf, and San Francisco. He is a consultant for internal medicine and diabetology at the Teaching Hospital Olomouc. He became Dr. med. habil. at the University of Greifswald in 1993 and since 2020 he has been a Professor of Medicine at Palacký University

Olomouc. His research interests include diabetes management comprising diet, exercise, education, and technology. He became a member of the Czech, German, European, and American Diabetes Associations and the executive committee of the Diabetes Education Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (DESG/EASD). In 2015, Dr. Chlup received the "Rudolf Korec Award" from the Slovakian Diabetes Association.
