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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Marian Knight is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine, with a significant focus on obstetrics and gynecology as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work covers a range of subfields including surgery, public health, environmental and occupational health, and general health professions. Knight's main research topics include maternal and fetal healthcare, COVID-19's impact on reproduction, maternal and perinatal health interventions, global maternal and child health, pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and the impact of pregnancy on medication.

Marian Knight has contributed at least five recent notable papers:

  • Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women admitted to hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK: national population based cohort study (2020, BMJ)
  • A national consensus management pathway for paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS): results of a national Delphi process (2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health)
  • Characteristics and outcomes of neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK: a prospective national cohort study using active surveillance (2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health)
  • The incidence, characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women hospitalized with symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK from March to September 2020: A national cohort study using the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Long COVID (post-COVID-19 condition) in children: a modified Delphi process (2022, Archives of Disease in Childhood)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Knight include:

  • Chris Gale
  • Jennifer J. Kurinczuk
  • Nicola Vousden
  • Rema Ramakrishnan
  • Gwyneth Lewis

The venues where Knight has often published encompass:

  • The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ
  • Obstetric Anesthesia Digest
  • NIHR Open Research

In addition to journal publications, Marian Knight has authored a book titled Why Mothers Died and How their Lives are Saved, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Knight has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Saving Mothers' Lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006-2008. The Eighth Report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom.

    Roch Cantwell;Thomas Clutton-Brock;Griselda Cooper;Andrew Dawson

  • Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women admitted to hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK: national population based cohort study.

    Marian Knight;Kathryn Bunch;Nicola Vousden;Edward Morris

  • Trends in Postpartum Hemorrhage in High Resource Countries: A Review and Recommendations From the International Postpartum Hemorrhage Collaborative Group

    Marian Knight;William M. Callaghan;Cynthia Berg;Sophie Alexander

  • Effectiveness of neuraminidase inhibitors in reducing mortality in patients admitted to hospital with influenza A H1N1pdm09 virus infection: a meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Stella G Muthuri;Sudhir Venkatesan;Puja R Myles;Jo Leonardi-Bee

  • Shedding of syncytiotrophoblast microvilli into the maternal circulation in pre‐eclamptic pregnancies

    Marian Knight;Christopher W. G. Redman;Elizabeth A. Linton;Ian L. Sargent

  • Association of severe intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy with adverse pregnancy outcomes: a prospective population-based case-control study.

    Victoria Geenes;Lucy C. Chappell;Paul T. Seed;Philip J. Steer

  • Incidence and Risk Factors for Placenta Accreta/Increta/Percreta in the UK: A National Case-Control Study

    Kathryn E. Fitzpatrick;Susan Sellers;Patsy Spark;Jennifer J. Kurinczuk

  • Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care: Lessons learned to inform future maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2009-2012

    M Knight;S Kenyon;P Brocklehurst;J Neilson

  • The management and outcomes of placenta accreta, increta, and percreta in the UK: A population-based descriptive study

    KE Fitzpatrick;S Sellers;P Spark;JJ Kurinczuk

  • Eclampsia in the United Kingdom 2005

    M. Knight

  • A prospective national study of acute fatty liver of pregnancy in the UK

    Marian Knight;Catherine Nelson-Piercy;Jennifer J Kurinczuk;Patsy Spark

  • Cesarean delivery and peripartum hysterectomy.

    Marian Knight;Jennifer J Kurinczuk;Patsy Spark;Peter Brocklehurst

  • A national consensus management pathway for paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS): results of a national Delphi process.

    Rachel Harwood;Benjamin Allin;Christine E Jones;Elizabeth Whittaker

  • Antiplatelet drugs for prevention of pre-eclampsia and its consequences: systematic review

    Lelia Duley;David Henderson-Smart;Marian Knight;James King

  • Perinatal outcomes after maternal 2009/H1N1 infection: national cohort study

    Matthias Pierce;Jennifer J Kurinczuk;Patsy Spark;Peter Brocklehurst

  • Antenatal Pulmonary Embolism: Risk Factors, Management, and Outcomes

    M. Knight

  • Circulating markers of oxidative stress are raised in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia.

    J. M. Morris;N. K. Gopaul;M. J. R. Endresen;M. Knight

  • Critical illness due to 2009 A/H1N1 influenza in pregnant and postpartum women: population based cohort study.

    I. M. Seppelt;S. Sullivan;Rinaldo Bellomo

  • Failed tracheal intubation in obstetric anaesthesia: 2 yr national case–control study in the UK

    A.C. Quinn;D. Milne;M. Columb;H. Gorton

  • Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care: Surveillance of maternal deaths in the UK 2011-13 and lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland. Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2009-13

    M Knight;D Tuffnell;S Kenyon;J Shakespeare

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Brocklehurst
Peter Brocklehurst University of Birmingham
Mika Gissler
Mika Gissler Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Louise Locock
Louise Locock University of Aberdeen
Neil Marlow
Neil Marlow University College London
Simon J. Stanworth
Simon J. Stanworth NHS Blood and Transplant
Zarko Alfirevic
Zarko Alfirevic University of Liverpool
Laura A. Magee
Laura A. Magee King's College London
Peter von Dadelszen
Peter von Dadelszen King's College London
Michael F. Murphy
Michael F. Murphy NHS Blood and Transplant
David J. Roberts
David J. Roberts University of Oxford

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