Jesia Berry

Biography

Jesia is a Data Manager for the Australian Cerebral Palsy (CP) Biobank, and a member of the Australian Collaborative Cerebral Palsy Research Group. The Biobank contains DNA samples for parent-child trios for nearly 500 sporadic and familial CP cases and clinical information. In addition, the Biobank contains DNA samples for 1,500 controls. A team of geneticists are involved in whole exome/genome sequencing to investigate the genetic causes of CP. Jesia's PhD thesis is entitled: 'Postmarketing Vaccine Safety Surveillance Using Data Linkage: The Issue of Consent'. The research was funded by the Australian Research Council as one component of a Linkage Project grant entitled: Vaccine Assessment Using Linked Data (VALiD). Jesia has been previously employed as a researcher in: - laboratory-based research for clinical drug trials; - hospital patient safety research; - injury-related topics - analysing national mortality and hospital morbidity data and producing AIHW reports and journal articles; and - the South Australian Early Childhood Data Demonstration Project - analysing linked de-identified administrative data spanning child health, education and welfare services for all children born in South Australia between 1999 and 2005, led by Prof John Lynch.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc