Brief Biography

Dr Kitai trained in Medicine in South Africa, in Paediatrics in the UK and Toronto, and in Paediatric Infectious Diseases in Toronto. He has worked for three years for Oxfam (UK) in rural Zimbabwe and for two years with the Northern Medical Unit of the University of Manitoba. He is currently in consulting paediatric practice in Ajax and is the TB specialist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. From 2002-6 he was medical consultant, Infection Control, at the Rouge Valley Health System and received the Council award from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario partly for his work during SARS.

Clinical Care Activities

Paediatric Tuberculosis, Paediatric infectious diseases and general paediatrics.

Academic Background

MB, BCh, FRCP(C)
University of Witwatersrand, 1972-01-01 - 1977-12-31

Research Interests

Management of paediatric tuberculosis, infection control in a community setting.

Research Activities

• Clinical presentation of TB at different ages
• Immunity to TB in children
• Diagnostic imaging modalities in paediatric TB
  

Achievements

2004 - College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Council Award

1991 - The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Odaantjie foundation award for excellence in clinical teaching
Second prize, Tisdall award for excellence in paediatric research

Publications

Kitai I, Malloy P: A clinical approach to paediatric tuberculosis in Canada.  Pediatrics and Child Health 2003: 3: 162-172.  

Crockett  M , King SM, Kitai I, et al: Nosocomial transmission of congenital tuberculosis in a neonatal intensive care unit.  Clinical Infectious Disease 2004: 39:  1719-23.  

Reynolds DL, Gillis F Kitai I et al: Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from an infant. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2006: 10:1051-6

Kam A,  Ford-Jones EL, Malloy P, Khan K, Kitai I. Active Tuberculosis Among Adolescents In Toronto, Canada: Clinical features and delays in diagnosis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007: 26: 355-356

Kitai IC, Malloy P Long R: Pediatric Tuberculosis.  In:  Long R, MD, Ellis E (Eds), The Canadian Tuberculosis Standards, 6th Edition. Ottawa: Health Canada and the Canadian Lung Association, 2007;308-19. http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tbpc-latb/pubs/pdf/tbstand07_e.pdf

Hawkes M, Kitai I, Blaser S et al:  Neuroimaging findings in isoniazid central nervous system toxicity, presumed intramyelinic edema. Eur J Paediatr Neurology 2008; 12(6):512-5

Phongsamart W,  Kitai I,  Gardam M,  Wang J,  Khan K N. A population-based study of tuberculosis in children and adolescents in Ontario.  Pediatr Infect Dis J 2009; 28:416-9

Pau WS, AlSaffar H, Weinstein M, Kitai I. Sporotrichoid-like tuberculosis.  Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009 28:1135-6.

Greenaway C, Sandoe A, Vissandjee B, Kitai I, et al.  Tuberculosis: evidence review for newly arriving immigrants and refugees. CMAJ. 2010 Jul 15. [Epub ahead of print]

Kakkar F, Ling D, Pai M, Allen U Kitai I  (for the Canadian Pediatric Society)  Tuberculosis in Children: new diagnostic blood tests. Pediatrics and Child Health 2010;15:529-33

Al-Dabbagh M, Lapprha K, Pattar R, Inrig K, Sauve L, Simon Schaaf H, Marais BJ,  Kitai I and Kollmann TR. Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Review of Pediatric Treatment Guidelines.  Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal Journal 2011 30:501-505

Thampi N, Stephens D, Rea E, Kitai I. Unexplained Deterioration During Antituberculous Therapy in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Presentation and Risk Factors. Pediatr Infect Dis J.2012; 31:129-33