Amanda T. Whitaker, MD

Specialties

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

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Languages Spoken:

English

Amanda T. Whitaker, M.D., is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Shriners Children's Northern California and UC Davis Health. She is from central Ohio. She received her undergraduate degree in biology through the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky and completed her medical degree at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University with qualifications in biomedical research. Her residency training was conducted at the University of California San Francisco where she completed the six-year research track. She went to Harvard Combined/Boston Children’s Hospital for her pediatric orthopedic fellowship. After fellowship, she practiced orthopedic surgery for five years at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, taking care of children and adults with cerebral palsy, clubfoot, trauma, vascular malformations, osteogeneisis imperfecta and macrodactyly.

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Pediatric Care

Specialty

Orthopedics
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

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More About Me

Board Certifications

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery - General

Education and Training

Fellowship|Children's Hospital Boston|Boston|MA||07/31/2016

Academic Positions and Locations

UC Davis Health
Assistant Professor

Leadership and Memberships

2020-Present: External Advisory Board, University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College
2020-Present: J. Robert Gladden Society
2018-Present: Perry Outreach Advisory Board
2017-Present: Ponseti International Association
2016-Present: Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA)
2015-Present: Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society

Editorial Positions

2022: American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Scientific Program Reviewer
2018-2022: Ad Hoc, Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
2021: Gait and Clinical Motion Analysis Society Awards Reviewer
2019-2021: Grant Reviewer, POSNA
2018-2020: Ad Hoc, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
2020: Ad Hoc, Pediatric Quality and Safety

Awards and Honors

2022: Top Women in Medicine, findatopdoc.com.
2017: St. Giles Young Investigator Award, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
2016: Behrooz A. Akbarnia Award for Best Paper, 10th International Congress on Early Onset Scoliosis, Utrecht, Holland
2013: Resident Clinician Scientist Training Grant, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation

Academic Works and Presentations

Invited Speaker, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA), Neuromuscular Subspecialty Day; Articles You Need to Know About (5/2022)
Grand Rounds Speaker UC Davis; “Tendon Transfers in Pediatric Foot and Ankle: Is the Foot ‘Just a Dumb Hand?’” and “Hip Surveillance in Cerebral Palsy: Implementing Guidelines through Quality Improvement” (01/2022 and 11/2021)
Invited Speaker, International Pediatric Orthopaedic Symposium (IPOS); Obesity in pediatric orthopaedics, congenital deformities, hips and spine in cerebral palsy, tibialis posterior tendon transfers, Cerebral Palsy Gait I and II (12/2021)
Invited Mini-Symposium, American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine; Strategies and Technologies to Overcome Barriers to Implementation. (10/2021)
Presentation/Instructional Course, American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine; Neuro-orthopaedic Journal Club: Top 10 Articles in the Last Year Relating to the Orthopaedic Management of Children with Neuromuscular Disorders (10/2021)
Podium Research Presentations, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America; “Improving Hip Surveillance across a Tertiary Children’s Hospital: A Multi-Disciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative” and “Assessment of audio-visual and socio-economic processing and the use of adaptive communicative equipment in children with severely involved cerebral palsy and scoliosis” (5/2021)