Dr Silvana Togneri MacMahon

Dr Silvana Togneri MacMahon is an Assistant Professor and is Deputy Head for Research and Innovation in the School of Computing at DCU. In addition, she is a member of the EMPOWER research programme and a researcher at Lero, the SFI Centre for Software. Silvana’s research to date has involved the development of a framework to allow Healthcare Delivery Organisations (HDO) to self-assess against the requirements of IEC 80001-1, a standard aimed at the risk management of medical IT networks. This work was published as a technical report, ISO TR 80001-2-7, on which Silvana acted as international project leader, author, and editor. Silvana is a member of the ISO TC215 IEC SC62A JWG7 Leadership Team and acts as the Chair of the Nationa Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) Health Informatics Standards Committee and is a member of the Top Team for AI standards. She was the recipient of the NSAI 1997 award for contribution to standard development and the DkIT President’s Award for Early Career Research both in 2018.