He also is an Attending Physician at the George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is co-director of the Utah Adult Congenital Heart Disease center and is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Adult Congenital Heart Disease. He cares for adults with congenital heart disease, heart disease in pregnancy, and other patients with cardiac complications of genetic diseases (such as muscular dystrophies). As an outgrowth of his interests in congenital and genetic cardiovascular diseases, Dr. Whitehead is also the Co-Director of the Utah Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Center, and in this role provides overall medical management and coordination of care to HHT patients seen at the University.