Alan Malabanan is currently the director of the Endocrine Clinic and Bone Health Clinic at Boston Medical Center, where he is on staff as part of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition and Weight Management. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.

He graduated with honors from the University of Buffalo, School of Medicine, and completed an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital and a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism and bone with Dr. Michael Holick. He has had a strong role in education, having previously been the endocrinology fellowship training program director at Boston University and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Joslin Clinic fellowship programs. He has a longstanding clinical interest in vitamin D deficiency, osteoporosis, bone densitometry and hyperparathyroidism. He believes that everything is endocrinology.