Dorota is research biostatistician and Adjunct Professor at the Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia (UWA). After completing her PhD in Mathematics/Medical Statistics (1998), she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Statistical Epidemiologist in the Department of Endocrinology, UWA (1998–1999); and as a Research Scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre, the University of Texas (2000–2001). She joined the Women and Infants Research Foundation (WIRF) in July 2001 and from 2003 until May 2023 she was Head of Biostatistics and Research Design of WIRF at King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEMH), the sole tertiary obstetric hospital in Western Australia (WA), where she was responsible for the design, conduct and analysis of randomised clinical trials and observational studies, working in close collaboration with clinicians in these fields.

Dorota’s research interests involve the application of biostatistical techniques to research in clinical medicine with complex epidemiological models that explore associations between patient phenotypes and health outcomes encompassing the development of prognostic models for prediction of health outcomes, design and conduct of randomised clinical trials in reproductive health, evaluations of models of maternity care, and decision analytic methodologies designed to evaluate new interventions via outcomes simulation. Her most significant contributions have been in research dedicated to the prevention of preterm birth, models of maternity care, and Raine cohort studies.