Dr. Toni M Whitaker MD
Pediatrician | Developmental ? Behavioral Pediatrics
711 Jefferson Ave Memphis TN, 38105About
Dr. Toni Whitaker is a pediatrician practicing in Memphis, TN. Dr. Whitaker is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Whitaker diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Whitaker can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Education and Training
Univ of Tn, Memphis, Coll of Med, Memphis Tn 1993
Georgetown University in Washington DC 1993
Board Certification
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP- Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prevalence of developmental and behavioral disorders in a pediatric hospital.
- Long-term impact of maternal substance use during pregnancy and extrauterine environmental adversity: stress hormone levels of preadolescent children.
- Psychopathology and special education enrollment in children with prenatal cocaine exposure.
- Neurobehavioral disinhibition predicts initiation of substance use in children with prenatal cocaine exposure.
- Prenatal substance exposure: neurobiologic organization at 1 month.
- Risk-taking behavior among adolescents with prenatal drug exposure and extrauterine environmental adversity.
- The contributions of early adverse experiences and trajectories of respiratory sinus arrhythmia on the development of neurobehavioral disinhibition among children with prenatal substance exposure.
- Physiological correlates of neurobehavioral disinhibition that relate to drug use and risky sexual behavior in adolescents with prenatal substance exposure.
- Cortisol reactivity to social stress as a mediator of early adversity on risk and adaptive outcomes.
- Transactional relations between caregiving stress, executive functioning, and problem behavior from early childhood to early adolescence.
- Maternal and Child Characteristics Associated With Mother-Child Interaction in One-Year-Olds.
Treatments
- Hearing Loss
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
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