Peter Frank Whitington

Background

Whitington, Peter Frank was born on May 8, 1947 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Frank Everett and Mary Lena (Hollingsworth) Whitington.

Education

Bachelor in Economics, Tulane University, 1968; Doctor of Medicine, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1971.

Career

Resident in pediatrics, then chief resident, U. Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, 1972-1974; instructor, U. Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, 1975; assistant professor, U. Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, 1978-1981; associate professor, U. Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, 1981-1984; chief division pediatric gastroenterology, U. Tennessee Center for Health Sciences, 1978-1984; research fellow in gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1975-1977; research fellow in gastroenterology department pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977-1978; associate professor department pediatrics, University of Chicago Pritzker School Medicine, 1984-1987; associate professor departments pediatrics and medicine, University of Chicago Pritzker School Medicine, 1987-1992; professor, University of Chicago Pritzker School Medicine, 1992-1997; professor pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School, since 1997; director division gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, since 1997; director organ transplantation, transplantation center, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, since 1997; co-director, Northwestern University Affiliated Transplant Centers, since 1997. Chief gastroenterology LeBonheur Children's Medical Center, Memphis, 1978-1984. Numerous invited lectures and guest speaker at professional meetings, workshops, symposia, hospitals, conferences.

Member United Network for Organ Sharing pediatric transplantation committee National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, 1992-1994. Reviewer numerous medical journals including New England Journal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Journal Pediat., Digestive Diseases and Sciences, Pediatrics, Transplant.

Achievements

• Peter Frank Whitington has been listed as a noteworthy Pediatrics educator, pediatric hepatologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member science advisory board Mid-South chapter National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis, Memphis, 1983-1984. Board directors Liver/Organ Transplant Fund, Memphis, 1983-1984, Parents for Control H.S., Memphis, 1983-1984. Chairman medical advising committee Illinois chapter American Liver Foundation, since 1996, member, medical advisory on board directors, since 1993.

Medical director The Johnny Genna Foundation, Chicago, since 1987. Member American Association for Study Liver Diseases, Gastroenterology Research Group, American Gastroenterological Association, Society for Pediatric Research, North America Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, American Association Transplant Physicians.

Interests

• Avocations: making fine furniture, fly fishing.

Connections

Married Susan Maurine Hoagland, June 6, 1967. Children: Helen Frances Josephic, Mary Louise Whitington, Katherine Daphne.

Father:

Frank Everett Whitington

Mother:

Mary Lena (Hollingsworth) Whitington

Spouse:

Susan Maurine Hoagland

child:

Mary Louise Whitington

child:

Katherine Daphne Whitington

child:

Helen Frances Josephic Whitington