Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology. Topiwala National Medical college and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital. Mumbai has an M.D.

She heads the ICMR Center for Research in Clinical Pharmacology of Traditional Medicine and is also the Co-coordinator of the Maharashtra Unit of WHO - India Essential Drugs programme and has received international training at several WHO sponsored Training Courses.

She has also served as faculty on the Drugs and Therapeutic Committees Course sponsored by WHO. Her Main areas of research interest include Rational use of drugs in developing countries, Immunomodulating Effects of Indian plants, platelet pharmacology and conceptual Understanding Of Aired, the Indian Traditional system of Medicine.

She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Association of physicians of India and Indian Journal of pharmacology. Having won several prizes at the undergraduate level, her team’s research work has been recognized by the Prizes they have won in scientific conferences. She has been selected as one of the ‘‘Outstanding Referee of the year of the Journal of Association of physicians of India’’.

She has 120 publications in National and International Journals including 8 books to her credit, Dr. Thatte serves on the Ethics committees of National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health and KEM Hospital as well as on the Independent Ethics committee.