Kate Fitzpatrick
Epidemiologist/Health services researcher and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
Kate is an Epidemiologist/Health Services Researcher with over ten years of experience. In 2016 she was awarded a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Doctoral Research Fellowship to undertake a DPhil part-time at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford. Her DPhil is investigating the short and longer-term outcomes for women and their children according to planned mode of birth after previous caesarean section using a number of linked Scottish National datasets.
Kate recently led a Wellbeing of Women funded multi-country study that used the International Network of Obstetric Survey Systems to investigate the risk factors, management and associated outcomes of Amniotic Fluid Embolism (AFE), a rare pregnancy complication that remains one of the leading causes of direct maternal mortality in high income countries. She has previously conducted a number of national case-control and cohort studies examining various pregnancy and birth-related complications using the UK Obstetric Surveillance System. She has also previously been involved in several international multi-centre research projects seeking to investigate how genetic variation affects the biology and epidemiology of malaria, and research investigating the epidemiology of various eye diseases in India. She has a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and a Masters in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Recent publications
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Planned mode of birth after previous caesarean section and women’s use of psychotropic medication in the first year postpartum: a population-based record linkage cohort study
Journal article
FITZPATRICK K. et al, (2021), Psychological Medicine
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Risk factors, management, and outcomes of amniotic fluid embolism: A multicountry, population-based cohort and nested case-control study.
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Fitzpatrick KE. et al, (2019), PLoS Med, 16
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Planned mode of delivery after previous cesarean section and short-term maternal and perinatal outcomes: A population-based record linkage cohort study in Scotland.
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Fitzpatrick KE. et al, (2019), PLoS Med, 16
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Human candidate gene polymorphisms and risk of severe malaria in children in Kilifi, Kenya: a case-control association study.
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Ndila CM. et al, (2018), Lancet Haematol, 5, e333 - e345
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Pregnancy at very advanced maternal age: a UK population-based cohort study.
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Fitzpatrick KE. et al, (2017), BJOG, 124, 1097 - 1106