She works as a professor of health research and policy and of biomedical data science at Stanford University,[1] and has served as president of the International Biometric Society.
[3] Whittemore completed a Ph.D. in 1967, from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with a dissertation on Frattini subgroups supervised by Gilbert Baumslag.
She pursue a fellowship to New York University to accomplish that shift of interests, under the mentorship of Joseph Keller.
[7] Recently, Whittemore has contributed her expertise in a paper published in the American Journal of Epidemiology to investigating racial and ethnic differences in ovarian cancer risk.
[10] She was the recipient of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Florence Nightingale David Award in 2005[11] and R. A. Fisher Lectureship in 2016 "for her fundamental contributions to biostatistics and epidemiology, covering a wide range of topics from environmental risk assessment to genetic linkage analysis, genetic association studies and cancer epidemiology; for bringing her statistical and mathematical insight to bear on the collection and interpretation of scientific data; for her leadership in large consortia of cancer studies; and for being a role model for many young scientists".