July 30, 2024
The July 30 OHDSI Community Call focused on Patient-Level Prediction (PLP). Following an introduction to the PLP workgroup, we received short presentations on the following topics: – external validation performance estimation using summary statistics – deep learning comparison on three benchmark tasks – insights from a prognostic model implementation review – Seek Cover validation over time – developing a set of benchmark tasks We were happy to welcome Jenna Reps, Chen Yanover, Henrik John, Alexander Saelmans, Egill Friðgeirsson, and Ross Williams to lead this session.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Louisa Smith and Robert Cavanaugh on the publication of allofus: an R package to facilitate use of the All of Us Researcher Workbench in JAMIA.
• Congratulations to Linying Zhang, who won the AMIA 2024 Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. She will be giving a talk on her dissertation “Causal machine earning for reliable real-world evidence generation in healthcare” at the 2024 AMIA Annual Symposium, held Nov. 9-13 in San Francisco.
• The agenda for the main conference day of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium is now available. The August 13 community call will focus on both the main conference day and a look at the individual tutorials.
• The Eye Care & Vision Research workgroup is leading a Semaglutide NAION network study based on last week’s OHDSI Evidence Network presentation. Cindy Cai and Michelle Hribar discussed this study and the value of network collaboration; please use this link to join the Eye Care & Vision Workgroup.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 6-9 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Registration information will be posted when available.
• The fifth European OHDSI Symposium, titled “Scaling up Reliable Evidence Across Europe,” was held June 1-3 and brought together data partners, regulators, and researchers to collaborate and share results and ideas about the use of the OMOP-CDM in Europe. All materials from the session, including talks focused on the Selection of European Initiatives Using the OMOP CDM and Large Scale Evidence Generation in EHDEN and DARWIN EU®, as well as the collaborator showcase, can be found all on the event homepage.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Europe Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Belgian Healthcare: InAH’s OMOP CDM Approach (Maryna Borshchivska)
Tuesday — A collaborative EHDEN Neuroscience Research Program on Cluster Headache across a standardized health data network (Kristine Harrsen)
Wednesday — Implementing value-based oncology care at European cancer hospitals (Mads Andersen)
Thursday — Preparatory work for efficient mapping of Hungarian drug codes (Ágota Mészáros)
Friday — Analysis of Lung Cancer Patient Treatment with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Using Natural Language Processing for Data Extraction from Electronic Health Records (Iege Bassez)
2024 OHDSI Global Symposium
• Registration is open for the 2024 Global Symposium, which will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., USA. The three-day event will feature tutorials on Day 1, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Day 2, and workgroup activities on Day 3.
• Day 1 will open with a single tutorial in the morning: An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence using OHDSI. There will be four advanced tutorials during the afternoon: An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence using OHDSI; Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data Model; So, You Think You Want To Run an OHDSI Network Study?; and Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research. You can select your tutorials during the registration process.
Job Openings
• Ajit Londhe announced an opening for a Senior Associate Director, Real World Evidence and Analytics at Boehringer Ingelheim. The candidate for this remote position will have the opportunity to generate real world evidence (RWE) to support in-line and pipeline products, provide statistical advice on the analysis of real world data (RWD) to various internal and external stakeholders, contribute to the RWD acquisition strategy and tool evaluation, and participate in the development and presentation of RWE trainings. More information and an application link is available here.
• Aki Nishimura announced that Johns Hopkins University is seeking postdoctoral fellows. The fellows would work on methodological research in pharmaco-epidemiology to address medication and device utilization, effectiveness, and safety relevant to health, lung, and blood diseases. More information and application details are available here. If you are interested in having Aki Nishimura as a co-advisor, please include him on your application email at aki.nishimura@jhu.edu.
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