Thomas (tom) D. Thacher MD

Thomas (Tom) D. Thacher is a Professor at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States. He developed a research interest in nutritional rickets disease-causing painful bone deformities in children. Dr. Thacher's research demonstrated that rickets in African children was primarily due to calcium deficiency rather than vitamin D deficiency and that calcium treatment could effectively reverse the disease symptoms. Since joining Mayo Clinic's family medicine staff in 2007, Dr. Thacher has continued his international health research related to vitamin D, calcium, and rickets.