Naveed Sattar is a Scottish medical researcher and Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow. 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.

Naveed is currently involved in several lifestyle and drug trials in diabetes and CVD and leads on biomarker initiatives in other trials. He is mainly involved in investigating the causes, prevention and management of diabetes, obesity and heart disease.

He 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.