Kristen Whitaker, MD, MS

Kristen Whitaker, MD, MS

Assistant Professor
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dr. Whitaker is an assistant professor at Fox Chase Cancer Center in the Departments of Clinical Genetics and Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Whitaker’s practice focused on patients with breast cancer and patients at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Her research interests include cancer health disparities, cancer screening for high-risk women, hereditary breast cancer, and improved clinical trial enrollment of minority patients with cancer.

She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania and MD from Drexel University College of Medicine. She completed a fellowship in hematology/oncology at the University of Chicago Medical Center before joining Fox Chase.