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BIHS Lecture: Jamie Kitt

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Thursday, December 11, 2025
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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Dr Jamie Kitt
Cardiology & General Internal Medicine (GIM) Consultant
Oxford & Thames Valley

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Biography

Dr Jamie Kitt is a dual accredited Cardiology & General Internal Medicine (GIM) Consultant trained in Oxford & Thames Valley, United Kingdom. He has sub-specialty training in Echo, Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), Cardiac CT, and Hypertension, the latter of which complements his research expertise within hypertensive pregnancy. He now works as an imaging cardiologist in London for the NHS and continues his post-doctoral research in Oxford in Hypertensive Pregnancy. He completed a PhD studying the cardiac complications of hypertensive pregnancy between 2018-2022. Under the supervision of Prof Paul Leeson, he was awarded a British Heart Foundation fellowship during which they performed a randomized trial on post-partum self-management of hypertensive pregnancy (POP-HT). This resulted in several high-impact publications in the field of hypertensive pregnancy, with the key POP-HT trial papers published in JAMA, Hypertension and Circulation to coincide with the trial’s presentation at American Heart Association’s late breaking Science in November 2023. He was awarded the early career research award of the British and Irish Hypertension Society in Autumn 2024 and the University of Oxford Graduate Prize Award in March 2025 for this body of work. The vascular paper is pending publication in Hypertension and the brain and renal outcomes from are under peer review. Prof Leeson and Dr Kitt are now collaborating in a multi-center PCORI funded trial of postpartum BP self-management in the USA, the multi-center validation of POP-HT in the UK (SNAP2), and help run dedicated postpartum hypertension clinics in Oxford and London. Dr Kitt looks forward to sharing this body of work at the Australian Hypertension society in late 2025 and working with Prof Larry Chamley to adapt the principles developed in POP-HT to the New Zealand model of postpartum care during a visiting lectureship in December 2025.
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