Wanda Whitten-Shurney
Pediatrics · Detroit, MINPI 1447298500
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $95,901 of the $151,838 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 56.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $65,818 and has fallen 84.5% since, to $10,195 in 2025. Among pediatrics clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 179 payments — averaging $848.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$86K
- Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.$56K
- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$3K
- Novo Nordisk Health Care AG$2K
- Omeros Corporation$2K
- Vertex$2K
- plus $270 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$28,08818%
- Speaking & faculty fees$95,90163%
- Travel & lodging$23,38415%
- Food & beverage$4,4653%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 109 | $85,985 |
| Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. | 52 | $55,722 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $2,956 |
| Novo Nordisk Health Care AG | 1 | $2,359 |
| Omeros Corporation | 1 | $2,300 |
| Vertex | 5 | $2,247 |
| Novartis | 1 | $117 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 1 | $34 |
| Emmaus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$151,838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,473 pediatrics providers in Michigan.
Other pediatrics in Detroit
- Meera ChitlurDetroit$236K
- Madhvi RajpurkarDetroit$162K
- Marcus DegrawDetroit$62K
- Nedim CakanDetroit$55K
- Norris PolkDetroit$32K
- Lynn SmithermanDetroit$25K
- Yaddanapudi RavindranathDetroit$11K
- Esperanza Font-MontgomeryDetroit$5K
- Itemad BadrDetroit$5K
- Deepa Soundara RajanDetroit$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.