Professor Lucy Hederman

Prof. Lucy Hederman is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the SFI funded ADAPT Centre, where she leads the Heterogeneity and Interoperability challenge. Her main research interests are in clinical decision support systems and clinical research data integration. She is currently working with TCD nephrologist Prof Mark Little on the data and knowledge engineering for the PARADISE project to predict flares of ANCA-vasculitis, and the FAIRVASC project which seeks to integrate vasculitis data across 8 clinical registries. She is working on the patient data platform for the Precision-ALS project, which is harnessing AI to provide new insights into motor neuron disease. 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.