Rate My Professor Kit Doudney

Doudney is course convenor and lecturer for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing science courses, including NURS443 Anatomy and Physiology, NURS444 Pathophysiology, and NURS427 Pathophysiology. He holds affiliations with the Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science and the Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies, and supervises postgraduate nursing research on topics such as pathophysiology of sudden cardiac death related to genetic variants and genetic biology of type I diabetes. Key publications include 'Potential link between copy number variation and abnormal genome wide DNA methylation profile in an individual with severe ADHD and a strong response to micronutrient treatment' (Psychiatry Research Case Reports, 2025, co-authored with Stevens et al.), 'Antenatal presentation of mitochondrial inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPA2) deficiency: A report on two cases' (European Journal of Human Genetics, 2024, with Guimier et al.), 'PPA2-associated sudden cardiac death: extending the clinical and mutational spectrum' (Genetics in Medicine, 2022), 'Copy number variants implicate cardiac function and development genes in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy' (Scientific Reports, 2018), 'Mutations in the planar cell polarity genes CELSR1 and SCRIB are associated with neural tube defects' (Human Mutation, 2012), and early contributions to 'The Friedreich's ataxia gene encodes a novel phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase' (Nature Genetics, 1996). He has delivered seminars on PPA2 dysfunction at the University of Canterbury and University of Otago Christchurch.