Aditi Thakkar
Biography
Aditi Thakkar, M.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her medical degree at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences in India, followed by an internal medicine residency at the University of Connecticut and an endocrinology fellowship at UC Irvine, where she served as Chief Endocrinology Fellow. She is board certified in both internal medicine and endocrinology.
Thakkar serves as Director of the UCI Diabetes Center, where she oversees patient care standards related to diabetes management through multidisciplinary collaboration to identify areas of improvement, implement protocols, and monitor glycemic outcomes. She also serves as Co-Chair of the UCI Inpatient Glycemic Management Committee and Co-Chair of the UCI Endocrine Grand Rounds Committee. Additionally, she organizes the UCI Thyroid Tumor Board, a quarterly multidisciplinary conference discussing complex thyroid cases, and serves as Faculty Lead for the Internal Medicine Clerkship Endocrinology mini-electives for third-year medical students.
Thakkar has presented research on various endocrinology topics at national conferences, including cases involving Cushing's syndrome, thyroid disease, and diabetes management. She has contributed to educational initiatives at UCI, including creating a video series on diabetes management for internal medicine residents and developing a weekly lecture series for first-year endocrinology fellows on inpatient management of endocrine disorders. She is a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the California Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the Endocrine Society.
Return to topAreas of Expertise
- Clinical Endocrinology
- Inpatient Glycemic Management
- Thyroid Disorders
- Adrenal Pathology
- Functional Thyroid Metastasis
- Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus
- Ectopic Cushing's Syndrome
Recent Publications
- Chien, R, Thakkar, A, “A Case of functional thyroid metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer”, 2025. Presented at Endocrine society meeting 2025, San Francico, CA, 07/12/2025.
- Chahine, A., Sandhu, S, Thakkar A, “A case of psychosis in ectopic cushing's syndrome”, 2024. Presented at Endocrine Society Meeting, Boston, 06/03/2024.
- Beshay, L, Thakkar, A, “A case of Mature Onset Diabetes of the Young”, 2023. Presented at Endocrine Society Meeting 2023, Chicago, Illinois, 06/17/2023.
- Beshay, L, Thakkar, A, “A case of Neonatal diabetes”, 2023. Presented at AACE 2023 meeting, 05/06/2023.
- Thakkar A, Greb A, Reikes A, “A case of Mild Autonomous Cortisol Secretion Managed with Active Surveillance”, JES, pp. A97-98, 2022.
- Thakkar, A, Chen, C, “The Clinical Conundrum of Cushing's- A case of primary bilateral macronodular adrenal hyperplasia”, Endocrine Practice, 2021.
- Thakkar, A, Chen, C, “A case for lithium pretreatment prior to radioactive iodine ablation in grave's disease”, JES, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. A906–A907, 2021.
- Thakkar, A, Mirza, F., “Bone Density Yo-yo in a Patient with Severe Hypercalciuria”, JES, 2019.
- Patil A, Orr, L, Saberinia, H, Thakkar A, “Optimizing Discharge Times on a Medicine Unit at Uconn Health”, 2019. Presented at Dean's Symposium On Patient Safety and Continuous Quality Improvement, Farmington, CT, USA, June, 2019.
- Thakkar, A., Khurana, A., Sabharwal, S., “A case of Antiphospholipid Syndrome associated with Giant Cell Arteritis”, 2018. Presented at ACP- Connecticut Chapter, Hartford, CT, USA, October, 2018.
- Thakkar, A., Gajjar, K., Hodge, M., “A Review of Hospital Readmissions”, 2018. Presented at Uconn Health Readmissions Conference, Farmington, CT, USA, November, 2018.
- Thakkar, A., Savage, J., “New onset Atrial Fibrillation and Troponinemia: Acute Coronary Syndrome or Demand Ischemia?”, 2017. Presented at ACP- Connecticut Chapter, Hartford, CT, USA, October, 2017.
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Last updated on 5/19/2026.