Dr Scott Akker
MB BS, BA, PhD, MRCPEndocrinology
24 years of experience
14 years as a specialist
Practices worked at
Bond House, 347-353 Chiswick High Road, London, United Kingdom, W4 4HS79 reviews
13-14 Devonshire Street, London, United Kingdom, W1G 7AE31 reviews
About
Dr Scott Akker is a Consultant Endocrinologist whose clinical practice is focused on both general and specialist endocrinology with a particular focus on thyroid, adrenal and pituitay disorders. This includes both problems with function as well as careful evaluations of any Endocrine gland tumours (both benign and malignant). He runs specialist clinics for the disorders above as well as clinics for people with genes predisposing them to endocrine disorders.
Dr Akker studied medicine at Downing College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Medical College London qualifying in 1995. He completed a PhD and his Specialist Training in Endocrinology and General Medicine in 2005 and has been a Consultant Endocrinologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital (a world renowned Centre for Endocrinology) in London since 2005. He has a research focus on secretory adrenal tumours and paragangliomas.
Medical procedures
- Pituitary replacement therapy
- Steroid replacement therapy
Special interests
- Thyroid, adrenal, pituitary and parathyroid disorders
- Conn's syndrome
- Primary Hyperaldosteronism
- Endocrine Hypertension
- Endocrine Tumours
- Endocrine Cancer
- Phaeochromocytoma
- Paraganglioma
- Cushing's Syndrome
- Adrenal Incidentaloma
- Addison's disease
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Endocrine Incidentalomas
- Cushing's disease
- Acromegaly
- Hyperprolactinaemia
- Prolactinoma
- Non-functioning pituitary adenoma
- Hypopituitarism
- Thyroid nodules
- Thyroid cancer
- Goitre
- Overactive thyroid
- Graves' Disease
- Hypothyroidism
- Thyroiditis
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Autoimmune thyroiditis
- Thyroid antibodies
- Parathyroid
- Primary Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypercalcaemia
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Genetics of Endocrine disease
- MEN1, MEN2, SDH
- Iron Overload
- PCOS
- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
- Hypogonadism
- Low testosterone
Education
Qualifications
PhD University of London 2008
MB BS University of London 1995 (Honours)
BA University of Cambridge 1992 (First Class)
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