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Magdalena Rosińska, M.D PhD

Head of Digital Medicine Centre
Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology is the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Poland, providing more than 130,000 cancer-related hospital admissions and 680,000 outpatient consultations annually, while conducting over 500 active clinical trials at any given time. The Institute serves as a governmental research institution, leading the implementation of the National Cancer Strategy, monitoring the National Oncology Network, maintaining the National Cancer Registry, and acting as the National Coordinating Centre for population-based cancer screening and primary cancer prevention programmes.
“Understanding data at the source is key in Real World Evidence research.”

What drew you to RWE, precision oncology or digital health?

I have a long-standing interest in epidemiology and public health, and oncology is certainly an area of great importance for population health. While clinical trials are crucial, it is also evident that implementation is frequently lagging and a typical patient in routine practice is often different than the clinical trial patient. This is what draws me to RWE research.

What is your professional background & training?

M.D. with specialist training in Public Health, M.Sc. in mathematics, M.Sc. in biostatistics, Ph.D. in epidemiology, habilitation in health sciences (epidemiology)

What does your current role involve?

Team lead (Digital Medicine Centre) at MSCI. The team supports clinical trials and RWE studies in the Institute. We participate in national and international research and innovation projects as well as initiatives aimed at improving the quality, interoperability, and secondary use of healthcare data and institutional databases.

What are you working towards, and what comes next?

Improvement of data readiness of the Institute, including proper governance processes and infrastructure as well as data interoperability. Designing, developing and or implementing data driven digital services and analytics. Expanding data science team and ... enjoying research.

What advice do you have for someone who is interested in moving into this field?

This job requires collaborative work of teams ranging from practitioners through clinical researchers, statisticians and data scientists, data engineers to legal and ethical experts. It is good to always stay in touch with multiple stakeholders to design RWE studies. Real word data strongly depend on practice, including coding and documentation practice, quite often specific to a single hospital or even clinic.

What's one thing people would never guess about your work?

It is not a "nerd" work. It gets you to meet many interesting people.
Research interests
RWE ResearchEpidemiologyCancer InequalitiesImplementation Evaluation