The daughter of cardiologist Jacek Dubiel [pl].[4] In 1993 she graduated from the Jagiellonian University Medical College. There in 1998 she obtained a doctorate in medical sciences based on her dissertation Spostrzeganie relacji małżeńskich przez pacjentów depresyjnych i ich współmałżonków w aspekcie stylu poznawczego (Perception of marital relationships by depressive patients and their spouses in terms of cognitive style), supervised by Andrzej Zięba. In 2006 she obtained habilitation, and in 2012 she obtained title of professor.[5] Between 2010 and 2014 she was employed at the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[5] She co-organized a scientific conference cicle Pharmacotherapy, Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation of Affective Disorders (Polish: Farmakoterapia, Psychoterapia i Rehabilitacja Zaburzeń Afektywnych), twenty two editions until 2017; as well as a series of popular lectures and discussions Conversations about human (Rozmowy o człowieku).[1]
In June 2020 she authored a letter to president Andrzej Duda against the discrimination of LGBT people that was signed by several hundreds scientists.[6][7] In November 2025, she was appointed by the Mayor of Kraków, Aleksander Miszalski, as the chairwoman of the Krakow Mental Health Council.[8]
She was married to Dariusz Dudek (cardiologist) [pl].[4]
