Dr Saira Hameed is one of the UK's leading weight-loss doctors and author of The Full Diet. She is a Consultant Endocrinologist at the NHS Imperial Weight Centre, an internationally renowned centre of excellence for weight management, and a Senior Tutor and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. Dr Hameed read medicine at Oxford University and University College London, and received her PhD on the body's control of weight and appetite from Imperial College London.

Through her work in the NHS and Imperial College, Dr Hameed created Imperial-SatPro, the highly effective, often life-changing, weight-loss programme on which The Full Diet is based. She lives in London with her family.