He is the current head of the department and the associate dean, school of medicine. He is a consultant laparascopic and general surgeon at Kenyatta National hospital and the Aga Khan University hospital, Nairobi. Prof. Saidi is also one of the founders of Haiba foundation, a non profit making organization, incorporated in 2004 as a tool of resource mobilization and development. Prof. Hassan Saidi is the current chairman of the surgical society of Kenya, the Editor in Chief of the Annals of African Surgery and the associate editor of the Anatomy Journal of Africa.