Jane E Hitti, MD, MPH
Professor
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program
Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology

• MD degree
    (University of Vermont, 1989)
• Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology
    (Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, 1993)
• Fellowship in Infectious Disease
    (University of Washington Center for STD/AIDS, 1994)
• Master of Public Health
    (University of Washington School of Public Health, 1995)
• Fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    (University of Washington, 1996)

• Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Washington State Medical Association

• Resident Research Mentor Award, University of Washington Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2008
• Award of Research Excellence (Prematurity), Society for Fetal Medicine, 2007
• National Faculty Award, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2006
• Constance B Wofsy Women's Health Investigator Award, 2004
• Best Young Investigator Award, Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1997, 1996

Hartley R, Hitti J. Increasing rates of sex-discordant twins no longer correspond to decreasing perinatal mortality rates. J Perinat Med. (in press).

Paul KJ, Boutain D, Manhart L, Hitti J. Racial disparity in bacterial vaginosis: the role of socioeconomic status, psychosocial stress, and neighborhood characteristics, and implications for preterm birth. Soc Sci Med. (in press).

Paul KJ, Boutain D, Agnew KJ, Thomas J, Hitti J. The relationship between racial identity, income, stress, and C-reactive protein among parous women: implications for preterm birth disparity research. J Nat Med Assoc. 2008;100:540-6.

Mitchell CM, Balkus J, Agnew KJ, Cohn SE, Luque A, Lawler R, Coombs RW, Hitti J. Bacterial vaginosis, not HIV, is primarily responsible for increased vaginal concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines. AIDS Res Hum Retrovir. 2008;24:667-71.

Coleman JS, Hitti J, Bukusi EA, Mwachari C, Muliro A, Nguti R, Gausman R, Jensen S, Patton D, Lockhart D, Coombs RW. Infectious correlates of HIV-1 shedding in the female upper and lower genital tracts. Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2007;21:755-9.

Hitti J, Andersen J, McComsey G, Liu T, Melvin AJ, Smith L, Stek A, Aberg J, Hull AD, Alston-Smith B, Watts DH, Livingston E. Protease inhibitor-based antiretroviral therapy and glucose tolerance in pregnancy: AIDS Clinical Trials Group A5084. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2007;196:e1-7.

Hitti J, Nugent R, Boutain D, Gardella C, Hillier SL, Eschenbach DA. Racial disparity in risk of preterm birth associated with lower genital tract infection. Paediatr Perinatol Epidemiol. 2007;21:330-7.

Hitti J, Frenkel L, Stek A, Nachman S, Baker D, Gonzalez-Garcia A, et al. Maternal toxicity with continuous nevirapine in pregnancy: results from PACTG 1022. J Acquir Immn Defic Syndr 2004;36:772-6.

Hitti J, Tarczy-Hornoch P, Murphy J, Hillier SL, Aura J, Eschenbach DE. Amniotic fluid infection, cytokines and adverse neonatal outcome among infants at 34 weeks gestation or less. Obstet Gynecol 2001;98:1080-8.

Hartley RS, Emanuel I, Hitti J. Perinatal mortality and neonatal morbidity in twin pairs at different gestational ages: 37 weeks is optimal time for delivery. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2001;184:451-8.