Damon Berry

Biography

Damon Berry received the BSc in Control Systems and Electrical Engineering from Dublin Institute of Technology an MSc from Dublin City University and a PhD from TCD. From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a developer and team leader on various EU-funded medical informatics projects at DIT. He has represented DIT at OMG meetings and in the ISO TC215 and CEN TC 251 standardisation organisations where he was involved in the work of PT 36 Clinical analyser interface project team and is now Ireland's representative on TC 251 WG1. In 2000 Damon was appointed as a lecturer in the School of Control Systems and Electrical Engineering where he teaches computing. From 2002 to 2004 Damon was seconded to the DIT faculty of engineering as the Student Recruitment coordinator. More recently he has worked with Ted Burke to establish DIT's highly successful RoboSlam STEM activity. Damon's research interests span the following topics in health informatics and assistive technologies; instrument interfacing, electronic patient records, automated clinical guidelines, mobile health monitoring, applied digital signal processing. He lectures in industrial computing and engineering computation and on the Engineering Design Module which resulted in DIT's Robo Sumo challenge.

Research Interest

Health Informatics, Electronic Health Record, Biomedical Engineering, Information Quality, AssistiveTechnology.