About the Speaker

Winnie T. Whitaker, MD, FAAP is the division director for pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas in Austin, TX as well as Associate Professor of Pediatrics for the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School in Austin, TX. She also serves as the medical director for Camp Longhorn, a residential summer camp located in Burnet, TX.

Dr. Whitaker is actively involved in numerous hospital committees, including the medical executive committee, clinical leaders committee, surgical peer evaluation committees, and surgical process improvement committee; she is part of the planning committee for the hospital interdisciplinary case conference series and co-chairs a committee reviewing unplanned transfers to higher level of care. She is the vice-chair for the hospital pharmacy and therapeutics committee and the chair for the medical peer evaluation committee. Dr. Whitaker has a keen interest in education. In addition to bedside teaching of PEM fellows, medical students and residents in pediatric, emergency medicine, family medicine and transitional year programs, she has also consistently served as a primary mentor for PEM fellows and participates in their scholarly oversight and clinical competency committees every year. Her roles include curriculum director for the PEM board review series and director for camp medicine electives for fellows and fourth year medical students.

Dr. Whitaker was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and earned a bachelor’s degree (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania, a medical degree from University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and completed both a pediatric residency and a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She was on faculty at Cincinnati Children’s before joining Dell Children’s Medical Center in 2008.

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