• Aston Triangle

      B4 7ET Birmingham

      United Kingdom

    • School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle

      B4 7ET Birmingham

      United Kingdom

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    Zaki is an Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at UHB. He leads Integrated Clinical Academic Training at Aston along with the Final Year of the Medicine Programme. He has led successful NIHR bids to fund Academic Clinical Fellows at Aston. 

    He has clinical interests in Metabolic and Rare Bone Disease, Young Adult/Transitional Care, General Endocrinology and Internal Medicine.

    He is research active, as PI on a number of studies of rare bone/ calcium disorders, as well as in Pedagogical Research. He was previously awarded a Research Scholarship by the NIHR WM Clinical Research Network. He trained in London and Birmingham on a clinical academic track and held NIHR and European Research Council funded fellowships.

    He has held external roles at other Medical Schools, Post-graduate Colleges and Professional Bodies in the UK and internationally.

    He is a Clinical Advisor for the Royal Osteoporosis Society. He sits on the Society for Endocrinology Corporate Liaison Committee. He is a former Editor of Osteoporosis Review, and a member of the Royal Osteoporosis Society Clinical Research Committee, and of the Society for Endocrinology (SfE) Corporate Engagement Committee, and served terms on the SfE Public Engagement Committee and as a Editorial Advisor for the British Medical Journal.

    He contributed to the European Society for Endocrinology's Consensus Committee on Parathyroid disease (PARAT), and the International Taskforce on Parathyroid disease as well as participating in Delphi processes on use of biomarkers for ageing research, and Relative Energy Deficiency in Dance (RED-D). He has published extensively including in high impact journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, PNAS, JCI, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 

    He supervises PhD and MD students and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows.

    He is passionate about Medical Education, and continuous professional development - he is completing his MSc at Oxford University. 

    Professional/editorial offices

    • Clinical Advisor to the Royal Osteoporosis Society
    • Member of the Society for Endocrinology Corporate Liaison Committee. 
    • Media Ambassador for Society for Endocrinology
    • Advisory Board Member/ Consultant to Pharmaceutical Industry partners
    • Former Editor of Osteoporosis Review (the journal of the Royal Osteoporosis Society)
    • Former Member of Royal Osteoporosis Society Clinical and Research Committee
    • Former Head of Research and Education for CPSP (for UK and Ireland)
    • Former Society for Endocrinology Public Engagement Committee Member
    • Former Editorial Advisor for theBMJ

     

    Research Interests

    • Parathyroid disease
    • Endocrine determinants of adverse ageing (including sarcopenia and frailty)
    • Musculoskeletal Endocrinology
    • Metabolic/rare bone diseases
    • Medical Education Research: Widening Participation in Medical Education, Clinical Reasoning/ diagnostic decision making
    • Digital Health

    Employment

    • Clinical Associate Professor at Aston Medical School
    • Consultant Endocrinologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
    • Honorary Clinical Associate Professor Role in Institute for Metabolism and Systems Research (IMSR) at University of Birmingham
    • Previous Visiting Professorship in Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University
    • Previous roles as Clinical Lecturer, European Research Council Funded Clinical Research Fellow and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at University of Birmingham
    • Previous Specialty Training in Endocrinology, Diabetes and General Internal Medicine in West Midlands Deanery 
    • Previous Senior House Officer Training on St Bartholomew's and Royal London Hospitals Training Scheme

    Qualifications

    • Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians
    • Senior Fellowship of Advance HE (SFHEA)
    • PhD (Medicine) University of Birmingham
    • Completion of Specialist Training in Endocrinology and Diabetes and General Internal Medicine (UK CCT)
    • Specialty Certificate in Diabetes & Endocrinology - MRCP(Diabetes and Endocrinology)
    • Membership of Royal College of Physicians (MRCP(UK))
    • Post-graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (distinction) (Aston University)
    • Post-graduate award in Medical Education (Warwick University)
    • Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS)(Barts and the London, Queen Mary University of London)
    • Bachelor of Medical Sciences Honours (BMedSci(Hons)(intercalated degree at Bart's and the London, QMUL)

    Membership of Professional Bodies

    • Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians
    • Senior Fellowship of Advance HE
    • Member of Society for Endocrinology
    • Member of the Royal Osteoporosis Society

    Teaching Activity

    • MBChB (Medicine) Year 5 Lead
    • AMS Integrated Academic Training Lead
    • MBChB Leadership roles in Clinical Reasoning and Endocrinology. 
    • Previously MBChB Year 3 Lead and Year Assessment Lead
    • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Lead for Endocrinology Placements
    • External Examiner with Sunderland Medical School
    • PhD Supervisor for UoB/UHB Clinical Research Fellow (Acute Sarcopenia)
    • Acted as External PhD Examiner

    External positions

    Consultant Endocrinologist, University Hospitals Birmingham , Birmingham , UK.

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    • Adolescent and Young Adult Bone Health

      Alhamamy, N., Gittoes, N., Crabtree, N. & Hassan Smith, Z., 16 Apr 2025, Adolescent and Young Adult Rheumatology In Clinical Practice. p. 241-253 (In Clinical Practice (ICP)).

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    • An Expert Consensus Statement on Biomarkers of Aging for Use in Intervention Studies

      Perri, G., French, C., Agostinis-Sobrinho, C., Anand, A., Antarianto, R. D., Arai, Y., Baur, J. A., Cauli, O., Clivaz-Duc, M., Colloca, G., Demetriades, C., de Lucia, C., Di Gessa, G., Diniz, B. S., Dotchin, C. L., Eaglestone, G., Elliott, B. T., Espeland, M. A., Ferrucci, L. & Fisher, J. & 44 others, Grammatopoulos, D. K., Hardiany, N. S., Hassan-Smith, Z., Hastings, W. J., Jain, S., Joshi, P. K., Katsila, T., Kemp, G. J., Khaiyat, O. A., Lamming, D. W., Gallegos, J. L., Madeo, F., Maier, A. B., Martin-Ruiz, C., Martins, I. J., Mathers, J. C., Mattin, L. R., Merchant, R. A., Moskalev, A., Neytchev, O., Ni Lochlainn, M., Owen, C. M., Phillips, S. M., Pratt, J., Prokopidis, K., Rattray, N. J. W., Rúa-Alonso, M., Schomburg, L., Scott, D., Shyam, S., Sillanpää, E., Tan, M. M. C., Teh, R., Tobin, S. W., Vila-Chã, C. J., Vorluni, L., Weber, D., Welch, A., Wilson, D., Wilson, T., Zhao, T., Philippou, E., Korolchuk, V. I. & Shannon, O. M., 9 Apr 2025, In: Journals of Gerontology: Series A. 80, 5, 12 p., glae297.

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    • Baseline Characteristics of the TOPaZ Study: Randomised Trial of Teriparatide and Zoledronic Acid Compared with Standard Care in Adults with Osteogenesis Imperfecta

      Hald, J. D., Weir, C., Keerie, C., Dewar, L., MacLean, M., Milne, L., Keen, R., Walsh, J., Poole, K., Langdahl, B., Lindsay, J. R., Ghouri, N., Hollick, R. J., Aspray, T., Crowley, R. K., Cohen-Solal, M., Hassan Smith, Z., Tuck, S., Curtis, E. & Harvey, N. & 23 others, Eekhoff, E. M. W., Feenstra, J., Hampson, G., Stone, M., Turton, J., Patel, P., Siddiqi, M., Munro, R., Roy, M., Paskins, Z., Narayanan, D., Malcolm, E., Javaid, M. K., Osborne, P., Tang, J. C. Y., Lam, W., Moore, D., Black, H. A., Duckworth, A. D., Makaram, N., Guo, T., Stenhouse, G. & Ralston, S. H., 8 Nov 2025, In: Calcified Tissue International and Musculoskeletal Research. 116, 12 p., 136.

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    • CPD: Challenges in vitamin D deficiency

      Ravat, Z. & Hassan Smith, Z., 21 Aug 2025, Pulse.

      Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaperArticle

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