Zaki Hassan-Smith is a consultant endocrinologist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust with a sub-speciality interest in metabolic bone disease. He leads the bone genetics service and the clinical research programme. He is Clinical Senior Lecturer at Aston University Medical School. He is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Birmingham. Previous posts include an honorary professorship in health and life sciences at Coventry University; clinical lectureship at the European Research Council and NIHR funded clinical research fellowships in Birmingham. He completed his PhD on the impact of steroid metabolism on sarcopenia. He trained in London and Birmingham.