Dr. Robin C Whitaker DO
Family Practitioner
145 Citizens Lane Hazard KY, 41701About
Dr. Robin Whitaker is a family practitioner practicing in Hazard, KY. Dr. Whitaker specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Whitaker possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
Pikeville Coll- Sch Of Osteo Med- Pikeville Ky 2002
Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine 2002
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Estimating and comparing univariate associations with application to the prediction of adult obesity.
- Evaluation of a pediatric hospitalist service: impact on length of stay and hospital charges.
- Maternal perceptions of overweight preschool children.
- Why don't low-income mothers worry about their preschoolers being overweight?
- Maternal feeding practices and beliefs and their relationships to overweight in early childhood.
- Teachers' perceptions about children's movement and learning in early childhood education programmes.
- "Snacks are not food". Low-income, urban mothers' perceptions of feeding snacks to their preschool-aged children.
- Self-regulation and household routines at age three and obesity at age eleven: longitudinal analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
- Comparison of methods to categorize undernutrition in children.
- Predicting obesity in young adulthood from childhood and parental obesity.
- Early adiposity rebound and the risk of adult obesity.
- Role of the prenatal environment in the development of obesity.
- Maternal feeding practices and childhood obesity: a focus group study of low-income mothers.
Treatments
- Anemia
- Fever
- Gestational Diabetes
- Pregnancy
- High Blood Pressure (hypertension)
- Gastroenteritis
- Pain
- Tonsillitis
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