Rate My Professor Cate d'Este

Conjoint Professor Catherine d'Este, known professionally as Cate d'Este, holds an honorary appointment in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, where she previously served as Professor and was set to assume the Chair in Biostatistics. She earned her Bachelor of Mathematics majoring in statistics, Graduate Diploma in Medical Statistics, Diploma in Education, and PhD from the University of Newcastle. Her career trajectory at the University includes Lecturer in Biostatistics from 1995 to 1999, Senior Lecturer from 1999 to 2001, and Associate Professor since 2001. Additional appointments encompass Research Academic at the University of Queensland's Centre for Military and Veterans' Health in 2006-2007, and ongoing research consultancy there since 2007. Currently, as Senior Adviser at the Sax Institute, she brings over 30 years of expertise in biostatistics applied to population health research, spanning cross-sectional studies, cohort studies, clinical trials, and linked administrative data analyses.

d'Este's research specializations include epidemiology, clinical trial design, implementation science, cardiovascular disease, stroke care, cancer survivorship, infectious diseases, and chronic disease prevention. She has co-authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications, including the landmark Quality in Acute Stroke Care (QASC) cluster randomised controlled trial in The Lancet (2011), which established nurse-initiated protocols for managing fever, hyperglycaemia, and swallowing dysfunction, improving survival and independence rates and influencing national guidelines and international adoption across 72 hospitals in 18 countries. Other key works feature 'Compliance with anti-tuberculosis treatment' (Tuberculosis, 2001), 'Stated and actual management of acute myocardial infarction' (Medical Journal of Australia, 2000), and veterans' health reports such as 'Second Mortality and Cancer Incidence Report' (2004). Recognized with the 2003 Faculty of Health Excellence in Teaching Award, she has supervised 34 PhD and Masters theses to completion and contributed to NHMRC-funded projects enhancing health outcomes and policy.