Kathryn Ann Whitaker - Faculty Biosketch

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

Education:
BA
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2009.
BS
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2009.
MD
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2013.
Certificat (Clinical Research)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine , 2019.

Post-Graduate Training
Resident, Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 2013-2016.
Fellow, Infectious Diseases Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016-2018.

Certifications
ABIM - Internal Medicine, 2016.
ABIM - Infectious Diseases, 2018.

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Selected Publications

Mezochow A, Clausen E, Whitaker K, Claridge T, Blumberg E, Courtwright A: Letermovir should be first-line cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in lung transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation 6135(25): 00044-99, January 2025.

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 Notes: Poster presentation.

Kathryn Whitaker: Immunizations in patients with end stage renal disease. UpToDate Jeffrey S Berns (eds.). 33(1): 46-57, 2024.

Whitaker K: 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. Page: 171-177, 2024 Notes: Chapter 27.

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 Notes: Poster presentation.

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 Notes: Poster presentation.

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.