About us

Dr. Whitney Hendrickson is a specialized urogynecologist dedicated to women's health. She focuses on both medical and surgical treatments for pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, and fecal incontinence. She offers minimally invasive robotic surgery for prolapse and sacral neuromodulation for conditions like urgency incontinence, fecal incontinence, and urinary retention. Dr. Hendrickson, who works in the Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Utah Health, is currently accepting new patients with pelvic floor disorders. Dr. Hendrickson earned her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts and completed her Obstetrics & Gynecology residency at UC San Diego. She then pursued advanced training with a fellowship in Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (formerly called Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery) at Duke University. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Hendrickson is involved in quality improvement, clinical research, and medical education. She is the founder and chair of the Gynecology Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee, aimed at improving surgical outcomes for all gynecologic surgeries at the University of Utah. Her research is aimed at improving treatment outcomes for pelvic floor disorders, mostly focused on overactive bladder and lower urinary tract symptoms. She has developed tools to help both patients and clinicians make informed treatment decisions, particularly in managing urgency urinary incontinence and predicting post-surgical complications. As a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) K12 scholar, she is studying the outcomes of treatments for urgency urinary incontinence, including OnabotulinumtoxinA (BOTOX®) and sacral neuromodulation (SNM) to understand who will respond best to which therapy. She is also involved in medical student and resident education mostly focusing on surgical didactics.