{"id":83298,"date":"2020-04-24T01:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?page_id=83298"},"modified":"2021-08-23T19:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T23:29:49","slug":"lee-whitaker-md","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/offices-services\/alumni\/spotlight\/lee-whitaker-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Whitaker, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Class of<\/strong>: 1990<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2020\/03\/Whittaker-Lee.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"269\" class=\" wp-image-80141 alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Specialties<\/strong><br \/>\nFamily Medicine\/ Public Health<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current practice<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Whitaker Health Center, 1901 9th Street, St Thomas, Virgin Islands<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fond memory of BUSM<\/strong><br \/>\nThird year trauma surgery rotation with the Chief Resident at Boston City Hospital aka The Real St Elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite professor or course at BUSM<\/strong><br \/>\nThe late great Dr. McNary, Anatomy Professor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most recent accomplishment<\/strong><br \/>\nSurviving two category 5 hurricanes that struck the Virgin Islands and helping others find their way back to normalcy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hobbies outside of work<\/strong><br \/>\nPersonal fitness, music &amp; global medical missionary work,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic appointments<\/strong><br \/>\nAcademic Fellowship, University of Miami<br \/>\nMedical Lecturer to Masters of Physical Therapy students at Barry University, North Miami Beach, Florida<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent publications<\/strong><br \/>\nBetween Systolic and Diastolic Pressure &#8211; Memoirs of my encounter as personal physician to Nelson Mandela.<br \/>\nNow Available on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any other thoughts to share<\/strong><br \/>\nGive and it will come back to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of: 1990 Specialties Family Medicine\/ Public Health Current practice The Whitaker Health Center, 1901 9th Street, St Thomas, Virgin Islands Fond memory of BUSM Third year trauma surgery rotation with the Chief Resident at Boston City Hospital aka The Real St Elsewhere. Favorite professor or course at BUSM The late great Dr. McNary, Anatomy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15800,"featured_media":0,"parent":93581,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83300,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83298\/revisions\/83300"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=83298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}