Dr Saira Hameed

Dr Saira Hameed is a Consultant Endocrinologist with a subspecialisation in obesity medicine. She designed and runs the UK's most successful weight-loss programme, I-SatPro at Imperial College London, which has been peer-reviewed and whose results compare with gastric band surgery. In her daily practice she is referred patients who have been through numerous diets, and often need to lose weight for medical reasons: people with failing hearts who needed weight loss to have a heart transplant, or women for whom weight loss was necessary for IVF.

Dr Hameed holds a PhD in neuroendocrinology from Imperial College London and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. She is the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller The Full Diet and the accompanying The Full Diet Cookbook.

Her new book Signals: The Inside Story of our Hormones is published this year.