Prof. Lucy Hederman

Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

Biography: Prof. Lucy Hederman is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, a member of the SFI funded ADAPT Centre, and the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, all at Trinity College Dublin. Her main research interests are in clinical decision support systems and clinical knowledge representation. She is currently working with TCD nephrologist Prof Mark Little on the data and knowledge engineering for the AVERT project to predict flares of ANCA-vasculits. She coordinated the PRTLI MediLink (Linking Records to Knowledge) project, and was a collaborator on the NDRC funded PaJR (Patient Journey Record) project, on the HRB funded Center for Primary Care Research, and on the EU funded FP7 TRANSFoRm project, which (amongst other aims) developed approaches to facilitate the deployment of diagnostic decision support in general practice in Europe.

Research Interests:

  • Clinical decision support systems
  • Clinical research data engineering & interoperability
  • Patient generated health data