Kathryn Ann Whitaker, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
3400 Spruce Street, 3 Silverstein Pavilion, Suite E
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BS
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2009.
BA
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2009.
MD
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2013.
Certificat (Clinical Research)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine , 2019.
Permanent linkBS
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2009.
BA
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2009.
MD
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2013.
Certificat (Clinical Research)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine , 2019.
Selected Publications
A. K. Mezochow, K. D. He, K. Whitaker, E. Blumberg, M. Crespo, A. Courtwright.: Letermovir Use Following Lung Transplantation: A Single Center Review. International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic April 2024.Whitaker K: Chapter 27: Endocarditis infecciosa Cardiología para médicos no especialistas (bases para la práctica clínica integral). Úrsulo Juárez Herrera, MD (eds.). Planeación y Desarrollo Editorial, S.A. de C.V. 2024.
Rashed E, Whitaker K, Ambrose M, Feldbaum E, McLean R: Disseminated Toxoplasmosis in a Cardiac Transplant Patient: When Prophylaxis Isn’t Enough. International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado April 2023.
A. Le Mahajan, K. Whitaker, E. Blumberg, L. Gardo, J. Lee, M. Crespo, C. Bermudez, L. Glaser, M. Wilck, J. Anesi: Donor and Peri-Transplant Hospitalization Risk Factors for Invasive Fungal Infection in Lung Transplant Recipients. International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting, Boston, MA April 2022.
Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH; Melissa Richard-Greenblatt, PhD; Kathryn Whitaker, MD: Back Pain, Fever, and Cough in a 46-Year-Old Man. JAMA 326(20): 2070-2071, Nov 2021.
Imlay H, Whitaker K, Fisher CE, Limaye AP: Clinical characteristics and outcomes of late-onset BK virus nephropathy in kidney and kidney-pancreas transplant recipients. Transp Infect Dis 20(4): e12928, Aug 2018.
Whitaker K, Anesi J, Blumberg E, Gardo L, Lee J, Crespo M, Bermudez C, Glaser L, Wilck M: Risk Factors for Invasive Fungal Infections Among Lung Transplant Recipients. American Transplant Congress, Seattle, Washington Jun 2018 Notes: Oral presentation.
Kathryn Whitaker, Valerie Cluzet and Emily A. Blumberg: Enterobacteraciae Infectious in Solid Organ Transplant and Stem Cell Transplant. In Principles and Practice of Transplant Infectious Diseases. Amar Safdar, MD (eds.). Springer Clinical Medicine, Page: 447-460, July 2017 Notes: Chapter 25.
Whitaker K, Kross EK, Hough CL, Hurd C, Back AL, Curtis JR: A Procedural Approach to Teaching Residents To Conduct Intensive Care Unit Family Conferences. J Palliat Med 19(10): 1106-1109, Oct 2016.
Whitaker, K, Fisher, CE, Limaye AP: Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Early vs Late BK Virus Nephropathy in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Annual IDWeek Meeting San Diego, California Oct 2015 Notes: Poster presentation.