Professor of Metabolic Medicine at University of Glasgow, UK
Professor of Metabolic Medicine at University of Glasgow, UK
Naveed Sattar graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1990. In early 1992 he took up his first post as a senior house officer (SHO) at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; returning to Glasgow later that year as an SHO at the Victoria Infirmary. In 1993 he moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, first as a Specialist Registrar then as Senior Lecturer and Reader. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1998.
He joined the staff of the University of Glasgow and in early 2005 was appointed as Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences. He continues as an Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Medicine at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he co-leads a CVD prevention clinic. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences.
He is regularly asked to speak at international conferences and has sat on several national and international guideline committees, including: European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Task Force to develop 2019 Guidelines on diabetes, prediabetes, and cardiovascular diseases; Joint British Societies 3 CVD prevention recommendations; SIGN obesity and CVD prevention guidelines (latter as Chair); and European CVD prevention guidelines.
Naveed is currently involved in several lifestyle and drug trials in diabetes and CVD and leads on biomarker initiatives in other trials. He is on the editorial board for BMC Medicine and is an Associate Editor for Circulation. He has previously been on committees for Diabetologia, Diabetes Digest, Diabetes UK, European Association for Study of Diabetes (EASD), Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, American Diabetes Association, Scotland’s Chief Scientist Office, and British Heart Foundation. He is on the UK Biobank Enhancements committee.
He has authored / co-authored over 800 published papers, and received several national and international prizes for his research, including the Rank Nutrition Lecture, Minkowski Award Lecture, Dorothy Hodgkin Lecture, the John French Lecture and the RD Lawrence Lecture. Naveed has been in the top 1% of cited clinical academics in the world since 2014, according to the annual Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher list.