Professor Gkoutos holds the chair of Clinical Bioinformatics, a joint appointment between the University of Birmingham Medical School and the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

He is the Joint Director of the Health Data Science Centre at the University of Birmingham, a Faculty Affiliate Professor of Clinical Bioinformatics, Berkeley Lab, Associate Director of MRC Health Data Research UK, Co-Director of the WCH-Birmingham Research Institute, Alan Turing Fellow and a Fellow of the Robinson College at University of Cambridge.