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.
