Dorota Doherty

Head, Women and Infant Research Foundation’s Biostatistics and Research Design Unit

State or Territory:

  • Western Australia

Primary position including institution/organisation:

  • Head, Women and Infant Research Foundation’s Biostatistics and Research Design Unit

About Dorota Doherty:

  • Professor Dorota Doherty is the Head of the Biostatistics and Research Design Unit and Deputy Director of the Women and Infants Research Foundation (WIRF), located in King Edward Memorial Hospital.
  • Prior to her recruitment at WIRF, Professor Doherty worked as a Statistical Epidemiologist in the Department of Endocrinology at The University of Western Australia, and as a Research Scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre.
  • She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia’s Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (formerly School of Women’s and Infants’ Health), where she collaborates on research projects, as well as teaches and supervises postgraduate students.
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