Everybody is invited to the weekly OHDSI community call, which takes place each Tuesday at 11 am ET. These calls are meant to inform and engage our community through a variety of call formats, including community presentations, workgroup updates, breakout sessions, publication announcements, newcomer-focused sessions, and more. The upcoming schedule is available to the right.
Videos, slides and weekly updates from this year’s calls are available below. Presentations from the 2023, 2022 and 2021 community calls are also available.
The Oct. 29 community call featured the annual post-symposium “Welcome to OHDSI” session. George Hripscak provided a high-level overview of the community, its research, data and impact, and Craig Sachson went through the website to highlight where collaborators can find information as they either begin or continue their journey. Community members shared highlights from both the tutorials and workshops from the 2024 Global Symposium.
• Thank you to everybody who joined us last week at the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium. It was our most well-attended in-person event since OHDSI began more than a decade ago. Videos and slides from the event will be posted on the symposium homepage when available; you can already look at the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase!
• Congratulations to our 2024 Titan Award winners, as announced during the Global Symposium!
Data Standards: Vocabulary Team (Alexander Davydov, Vlad Korsik, Anna Ostropolets, Oleg Zhuk) Methodological Research: Linying Zhang Open-Source Development: Martin Lavallee Clinical Applications: Cindy Cai, Jung Ho Kim, Jack Janetzki Community Collaboration: Natthawut “Max” Adulyannukosol Community Support: Montse Camprubí, Elisse Katzman Community Leadership: Clair Blacketer
NEI Challenge
The National Eye Institute (NEI) Expand OHDSI Initiative for Eye Care and Ocular Imaging Challenge seeks innovative ideas to broaden the use of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) network for vision research, promoting the adoption of the OMOP Common Data Model. This challenge incentivizes researchers to develop novel approaches that enhance data quality and foster advancements in ophthalmology and optometry.
To support participants, the NEI is hosting an event, “Exploring Health Data Standards: Expanding the OHDSI Network for Vision Research,” on October 30, 2024, offering insights into the Challenge and OHDSI initiatives, and it will include talks from Cindy Cai, Michelle Hribar and Patrick Ryan. Additionally, NEI will hold two office hours for anyone with questions about the initiative:
The mandatory registration (intent to participate) is due by November 12, 2024. Entities must register their intent to participate by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on November 12, 2024 by submitting the Challenge Registration Formto neiodshi@nei.nih.gov. Entities who do not complete their registration by the deadline will not have their submissions considered for this Challenge. Each Participant Entity must designate a Point of Contact responsible for registering and submitting on behalf of the Entity and for all communications with the Challenge sponsors. Participants will also need to provide the name, affiliation, and contact information of all other individuals competing in this Challenge on behalf of an Entity. All such individuals must certify they have read and understand and agree to abide by the official eligibility criteria, participation rules, and requirements for the Challenge as stated in this announcement.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get support for integration into the network! Please direct any questions about this initiative to NEIODSHI@nei.nih.gov.
• The University of Nottingham is hosting a workshop on “How to be FAIR with Data Standards” Nov. 26-27 in the Nottingham Council House. More information, the two-day agenda and a registration link is available here.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 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 is now open!
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:
During the final community call before the 2024 Global Symposium, several presenters for the Collaborator Showcase shared why people should visit their posters or software demos. There was also a discussion on symposium logistics; both are available in the video at the bottom of this section.
• The NEI (National Eye Institute) Office of Data Science and Health Informatics is leading a session Oct. 30 at 12 pm highlighting research opportunities through the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program. Michelle Hribar and Cindy Cai will present their research conducted using the OHDSI network and lead a discussion on future research opportunities it offers for the vision health community. Patrick Ryan will present on the network’s potential for expanding research collaborations. More details and a registration link are available on the event homepage.
• The University of Nottingham is hosting a workshop on “How to be FAIR with Data Standards” Nov. 26-27 in the Nottingham Council House. More information, the two-day agenda and a registration link is available here.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium, which will be held December 4-8 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.” Please visit the event homepage to register for the main conference and/or the datathon.
• 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:
The Oct. 8 community call featured talks on recent advances in methodological research in the OHDSI community, as well as an update on the 2024-25 Vocabulary Roadmap. We were excited to welcome three community leaders to share presentations on methods research:
Negative controls in vaccine research • Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvani New diagnostics for covariate balance in small samples • George Hripcsak, Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Performance of the concurrent comparator design • Shounak Chattopadhyay, Postdoctoral Scholar, UCLA
Community Updates
• During the Oct. 15 community call, Collaborator Showcase presenters can use 60 seconds to share why OHDSI Symposium attendees should visit their poster or software demo. We want to hear from you; please sign up using this brief form or volunteer during the Oct. 15 call.
• The NEI (National Eye Institute) Office of Data Science and Health Informatics is leading a session Oct. 30 at 12 pm highlighting research opportunities through the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program. Michelle Hribar and Cindy Cai will present their research conducted using the OHDSI network and lead a discussion on future research opportunities it offers for the vision health community. Patrick Ryan will present on the network’s potential for expanding research collaborations. More details and a registration link are available on the event homepage.
• The University of Nottingham is hosting a workshop on “How to be FAIR with Data Standards” Nov. 26-27 in the Nottingham Council House. More information, the two-day agenda and a registration link is available here.
• The latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight features Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Yong, who has been leading methodological work within the OHDSI community for several years, earned the 2021 OHDSI Titan Award for Methodological Research. He discusses his career journey, recent advances in methods research, how his students use OHDSI in their research, and more.
• The October OHDSI newsletter is now available; it includes community updates and publications links, information on three upcoming in-person events in October, the latest video podcast, and plenty more.
• The 2024 EHDEN Symposium will be held Oct. 10 in Barcelona, and it will include sessions on EHDEN and both Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence, as well as the EHDEN impact on regulatory decision making and the medical product industry. The full agenda is now available.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium, which will be held December 4-8 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.” Please visit the event homepage to register for the main conference and/or the datathon.
• 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:
The Oct 1 (11 am ET) community call focused on DARWINEU®. The EMA and the European Medicines Regulatory Network established a coordination centre to provide timely and reliable evidence on the use, safety and effectiveness of medicines for human use, including vaccines, from real world healthcare databases across the European Union (EU). This capability is called the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU®).
The DARWIN EU® data network currently includes 20 data partners across 13 nations — comprising more than 143 million patients — that have been mapped to the OMOP common data model. Multiple OHDSI Titan Award winners can be found leading the DARWIN EU® coordination centre, and many OHDSI tools, methods and practices are present in ongoing or completed studies. We were thrilled to welcome two initiative leaders to discuss the progress of DARWINEU®:
• Peter Rijnbeek, Professor of Medical Informatics and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC (DARWINEU® Executive Director, Technology Pillar Lead) • Maxim Moinat, PhD Student, Erasmus MC • Dani Prieto-Alhambra, Section Head, Health Data Sciences, University of Oxford; Professor, Erasmus MC (DARWINEU® Deputy Director, Development Pillar Lead) • Katia Verhamme, Associate Professor of Use and Analysis of Observational Data, Erasmus MC
• The NEI (National eye Institute) Office of Data Science and Health Informatics is leading a session oct. 30 at 12 pm highlighting research opportunities through the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program. Michelle Hribar and Cindy Cai will present their research conducted using the OHDSI network and lead a discussion on future research opportunities it offers for the vision health community. Patrick Ryan will present on the network’s potential for expanding research collaborations. More details and a registration link are available on the event homepage.
• The latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight features Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Yong, who has been leading methodological work within the OHDSI community for several years, earned the 2021 OHDSI Titan Award for Methodological Research. He discusses his career journey, recent advances in methods research, how his students use OHDSI in their research, and more.
• The October OHDSI newsletter is now available; it includes community updates and publications links, information on three upcoming in-person events in October, the latest video podcast, and plenty more.
• The first OHDSI India Symposium will be held Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, India. In association with the Global Digital Health Summit, this event is set to bring together more than 20 community leaders in the field of health data research for a day of sharing, learning and networking.
• The 2024 EHDEN Symposium will be held Oct. 10 in Barcelona, and it will include sessions on EHDEN and both Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence, as well as the EHDEN impact on regulatory decision making and the medical product industry. The full agenda is now available.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium, which will be held December 4-8 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.” Please visit the event homepage to register for the main conference and/or the datathon.
• 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:
More than 700 peer-reviewed studies focusing on OMOP or OHDSI tools, methods or practices have been published over the last decade, and we were excited to welcome the leads or co-authors of four recent publications to discuss their work on the next community call:
• We are thrilled to share the 72 individuals or teams who were nominated for a 2024 Titan Award by a fellow OHDSI community member. The honorees will be announced during the upcoming Global Symposium. The nominees are: Alexander Davydov, Andrew Kanter, Anna Ostropolets, Anthony Sena, April Olympians Team, Asieh Golozar, Ben Martin, Benjamin Viernes, Christopher Mecoli, Cindy Cai, Clair Blacketer, Cynthia Sung, Daniel Morales, Danielle Boyce, DARWIN EU Development team, Elisse Katzman, Evanette Burrows, Eye Care and Vision Research Workgroup, Frank DeFalco, George Hripcsak, Greg Klebanov, Henrik John, Hsin Yi Chen, J Swetha Kiranmayi, Jack Janetzki, James Weaver, Jared Houghtaling, Jen Park, Joel Swerdel, John Gresh, Jung Ho Kim, Justin Manjourides, Kyle Zollo-Venecek, Liesbet Peeters, Linying Zhang, Louis Hendricks, Maarten van Kessel, Manlik Kwong, Marc Suchard, Marta Pineda-Moncusi, Marti Catala Sabate, Martijn Schuemie, Martin Lavallee, Maxim Moinat, Michael Gurley, Michael Matheny, Michel Walravens, Michelle Hribar, MN EHR Consortium Health Trends Across Communities project team, Montse Camprubi, Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng, Natthawut ‘Max’ Adulyanukosol, OHDSI APAC ETL team, OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies Team, Oleg Zhuk, Parthiban Sulur, Polina Talapova, Qi Yang, Renske Los, Rich Boyce, Robert Koski, Robert Miller, Roger Carlson, Scott DuVall, Thamir Alshammary, Theresa Burkard, Thomas Falconer, Tom Seinen, Vishnu Chandrabalan, Vlad Korsik, Will Kelly, and Zhen Lin.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium, which will be held December 4-8 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.” Please visit the event homepage to register for the main conference and/or the datathon.
• 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:
The Sept. 17 community call featured the Book of OHDSI. Published in 2019, the Book of OHDSI (book.ohdsi.org) was developed by community volunteers to be a central knowledge repository for OHDSI, and it focuses on describing our community, data standards, and tools. It recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, and it remains one of the most frequently used educational resources for both newcomers and veterans.
• We are thrilled to share the 72 individuals or teams who were nominated for a 2024 Titan Award by a fellow OHDSI community member. The honorees will be announced during the upcoming Global Symposium. The nominees are: Alexander Davydov, Andrew Kanter, Anna Ostropolets, Anthony Sena, April Olympians Team, Asieh Golozar, Ben Martin, Benjamin Viernes, Christopher Mecoli, Cindy Cai, Clair Blacketer, Cynthia Sung, Daniel Morales, Danielle Boyce, DARWIN EU Development team, Elisse Katzman, Evanette Burrows, Eye Care and Vision Research Workgroup, Frank DeFalco, George Hripcsak, Greg Klebanov, Henrik John, Hsin Yi Chen, J Swetha Kiranmayi, Jack Janetzki, James Weaver, Jared Houghtaling, Jen Park, Joel Swerdel, John Gresh, Jung Ho Kim, Justin Manjourides, Kyle Zollo-Venecek, Liesbet Peeters, Linying Zhang, Louis Hendricks, Maarten van Kessel, Manlik Kwong, Marc Suchard, Marta Pineda-Moncusi, Marti Catala Sabate, Martijn Schuemie, Martin Lavallee, Maxim Moinat, Michael Gurley, Michael Matheny, Michel Walravens, Michelle Hribar, MN EHR Consortium Health Trends Across Communities project team, Montse Camprubi, Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng, Natthawut ‘Max’ Adulyanukosol, OHDSI APAC ETL team, OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies Team, Oleg Zhuk, Parthiban Sulur, Polina Talapova, Qi Yang, Renske Los, Rich Boyce, Robert Koski, Robert Miller, Roger Carlson, Scott DuVall, Thamir Alshammary, Theresa Burkard, Thomas Falconer, Tom Seinen, Vishnu Chandrabalan, Vlad Korsik, Will Kelly, and Zhen Lin.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium, which will be held December 4-8 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.” Please visit the event homepage to register for the main conference and/or the datathon.
• 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:
The Sept. 10 community call focused on updates from our Asia-Pacific (APAC) collaborators. We heard about recent research, collaborations and the upcoming APAC Symposium (Dec. 4-8 in Singapore) from leads of six OHDSI regional chapters:
• Jason Hsu (Taiwan) • Seng Chan You (Korea) • Keiko Asao (Japan) • Nicole Pratt (Australia) • Lei Liu (China) • Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng (Singapore)
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Sept. 11 (11 am – 12 pm). We are excited to welcome Martí Català Sabaté, Medical Statistician and Data Scientist at the University of Oxford, who will provide a presentation on “Observational methods for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness research: an empirical evaluation and target trial emulation.” You can use this link to join the session.
• Nominations for the 2024 Titan Awards are due this Friday. The Titan Awards recognize OHDSI collaborators (or collaborating institutions) for their contributions towards OHDSI’s mission; they are nominated and voted upon by members of the community.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 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.
• 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:
Leaders from the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies team joined the Sept. 3 community call to discuss some of the release highlights, maintenance efforts, improvements and community efforts around the latest vocabulary refresh. We were happy to welcome the following people to lead this session:
– Alexander Davydov (Director, Lead of Medical Ontologies, Odysseus Data Services, an EPAM company) – Masha Khitrun (Data Analyst and Terminologist, Odysseus Data Services, an EPAM company) – Anna Ostropolets (Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development) – Tanya Skugarevskaya (Data Analyst and Terminologist, Odysseus Data Services, an EPAM company)
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Rohan Khera, Arya Aminorroaya, Lovedeep Singh Dhingra, Phyllis Thangaraj, Aline Pedroso Camargos, Fan Bu, Xiyu Ding, Akihiko Nishimura, Tara Anand, Faaizah Arshad, Clair Blacketer, Yi Chai, Shounak Chattopadhyay, Michael Cook, David Dorr, Talita Duarte-Salles, Scott DuVall, Thomas Falconer, Tina French, Elizabeth E Hanchrow, Guneet Kaur, Wallis Lau, Jing Li, Kelly Li, Yuntian Liu, Yuan Lu, Kenneth Man, Michael Matheny, NestorasMathioudakis, Jody-Ann McLeggon, Michael McLemore, Evan Minty, Daniel Morales, Paul Nagy, Anna Ostropolets, Andrea Pistillo, Thanh-Phuc Phan, Nicole Pratt, Carlen Reyes, Lauren Richter, Joseph Ross, Elise Ruan, Sarah Seager, Katherine Simon, Benjamin Viernes, Jianxiao Yang, Can Yin, Seng Chan You, Jin Zhou, Patrick Ryan, MartijnSchuemie, Harlan Krumholz, George Hripcsak, and Marc Suchard on the publication of Comparative Effectiveness of Second-Line Antihyperglycemic Agents for Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Multinational, Federated Analysis of LEGEND-T2DM in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
• Congratulations to the team of Florian Katsch, Rada Hussein, and Georg Duftschmid on the publication of Converting Entity-Attribute-Value Data Sources to OMOP’s CDM: Lessons Learned in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.
• Congratulations to the team of Achilleas Chytas, Nick Bassileiades, and Pantelis Natsiavas on the publication of Mapping OMOP-CDM to RDF: Bringing Real-World-Data to the Semantic Web Realm in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.
• Congratulations to the team of Mirna El Ghosh, Varvara Kalokyri, Mélanie Sambres, Morgan Vaterkowski, Catherine Duclos, Xavier Tannier, Gianna Tsakou, Manolis Tsiknakis, Christel Daniel, and Ferdinand Dhombres on the publication of From Syntactic to Semantic Interoperability Using a Hyperontology in the Oncology Domain in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.
• Congratulations to the team of Grigoris Papapostolou, Achilleas Chytas, Alexandros Rekkas, Maria Bigaki, Demetrios Zeimpekis, Lampros Dermentzoglou, George Tortopidis, and Pantelis Natsiavas on the publication of Real-World Data in Greece: Mapping the Papageorgiou General Hospital Data to the OMOP Common Data Model in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.
• Congratulations to the team of Amelie Gyrard, Philip Gribbon, Rada Hussein, Somayeh Abedian, Luis Marti Bonmati, Gibi Luisa Cabornero, George Manias, Gabriel Danciu, Stefano Dalmiani, Serge Autexier, Rick van Nuland, Mario Jendrossek, Ioannis Avramidis, and Eva Garcia Alvarez on the publication of Synergies Among Health Data Projects with Cancer Use Cases Based on Health Standards in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.
• Congratulations to the team of João A. Reis, João R. Almeida, Tiago M. Almeida, and José L. Oliveira on the publication of A Chatbot-Like Platform to Enhance the Discovery of OMOP CDM Databases in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.
• Congratulations to the team of Jakob Thiel, Igor Nesterow, Martin Sedlmayr, Jens Weidner, and Elisa Henke on the publication on Towards Efficient Resource Utilization Forecasting in Acute Heat Events Using OMOP in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.
• Congratulations to the team of Waldemar Hahn, Najia Ahmadi, Katja Hoffmann, Jan-Niklas Eckardt, Martin Sedlmayr, and Markus Wolfien on the publication on Synthetic Data Generation in Hematology – Paving the Way for OMOP and FHIR Integration in Vol. 316 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Digital Health and Informatics Innovations for Sustainable Health Care Systems.
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Sept. 11 (11 am – 12 pm). We are excited to welcome Martí Català Sabaté, Medical Statistician and Data Scientist at the University of Oxford, who will provide a presentation on “Observational methods for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness research: an empirical evaluation and target trial emulation.” You can use this link to join the session.
• Nominations for the 2024 Titan Awards are now open. The Titan Awards recognize OHDSI collaborators (or collaborating institutions) for their contributions towards OHDSI’s mission; they are nominated and voted upon by members of the community.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 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.
• 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:
• 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.
Clair Blacketer and other members of the OHDSI Community host the final session of the “Building the OHDSI Evidence Network Sprint” and answer questions that have been raised throughout the process. Sam Patnoe of HealthPartners Institute also joins and discusses the experience of a new team working to join the Evidence Network.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Najia Ahmadi, Michele Zoch, Oya Guengoeze, Carlo Facchinello, Antonia Mondorf, Katharina Stratmann, Khader Musleh, Hans-Peter Erasmus, Jana Tchertov, Richard Gebler, Jannik Schaaf, Lena S. Frischen, Azadeh Nasirian, Jiabin Dai, Elisa Henke, Douglas Tremblay, Andrew Srisuwananukorn, Martin Bornhäuser, Christoph Röllig, Jan-Niklas Eckardt, Jan Moritz Middeke, Markus Wolfien and Martin Sedlmayr on the publication of How to customize common data models for rare diseases: an OMOP-based implementation and lessons learned in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 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 next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Sept. 11 (11 am – 12 pm). We are excited to welcome Martí Català Sabaté, Medical Statistician and Data Scientist at the University of Oxford, who will provide a presentation on “Observational methods for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness research: an empirical evaluation and target trial emulation.” You can use this link to join the session.
• Nominations for the 2024 Titan Awards are now open. The Titan Awards recognize OHDSI collaborators (or collaborating institutions) for their contributions towards OHDSI’s mission; they are nominated and voted upon by members of the community.
• 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:
• 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.
The Aug. 13 community call provided an in-depth look at the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium, with a focus on the tutorials (Tuesday) and main conference (Wednesday). Erica Voss, Clair Blacketer, Anna Ostropolets, and Patrick Ryan led this session to discuss the exciting offerings for the upcoming symposium, which will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to Cynthia Sung and Andrew Kanter on helping the OMOP CDM earn a spot in the upcoming Global Goods Guidebook.
• The August 2024 OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes the agenda for the main conference at the Global Symposium, updates from the OHDSI Evidence Network Buildup, a collaborator spotlight with Jason Hsu, recent publications and presentations, community updates and more.
• 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:
• 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.
The Aug. 6 community call, our third session in the Building the OHDSI Evidence Network Sprint, focused on OHDSI Vocabularies and its potential within the Evidence Network. Anna Ostropolets and Patrick Ryan led this session, as we continue our two-month initiative to build a global resource of real-world evidence to enhance our mission of improving health by empowering a community to collaboratively generate the evidence that promotes better health decisions and better care.
• Congratulations to the team of Nishchay Mehta, Baptiste Briot Ribeyre, Lilia Dimitrov, Louise J. English, Colleen Ewart, Antje Heinrich, Nikhil Joshi, Kevin J. Munro, Gail Roadknight, Luis Romao, Anne Gm Schilder, Ruth V. Spriggs, Ruth Norris, Talisa Ross and George Tilston on the publication of Creating a health informatics data resource for hearing health research in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
• The August 2024 OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes the agenda for the main conference at the Global Symposium, updates from the OHDSI Evidence Network Buildup, a collaborator spotlight with Jason Hsu, recent publications and presentations, community updates and more.
• 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:
• 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.
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.
• 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 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:
• 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.
The July 23 community call featured the second of four summer sessions on Building Up The OHDSI Evidence Network. Clair Blacketer, Paul Nagy, and Ben Martin led a session focused on Evidence Network details, IRB language and strategies, a live demo focused on how to join the Evidence Network, and some Q&A throughout following questions from other community members.
• 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 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:
• 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
• Ross Williams announced an opening for a Health Data Scientist at Erasmus MC. The candidate will be responsible for the creation and execution of study software to support the work of epidemiologists. This will include designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining R code that will be executed against health data that is standardized to the OMOP Common Data Model. More information and an application link are available here.
• 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.
• Kevin Haynes shared an opening at CVS Health for a Lead Director, RWE Distributed Research. This position will lead a team of Analytic professionals responsible for transformation of healthcare insurance and pharmacy data into distributed analytic models, including OMOP, used in safety surveillance and collaborative research (SS&C). 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.
The July 16 (11 am ET) community call focused on the HowOften Initiative, including early findings following the 2023 OHDSI Global Symposium workshop, different projects using HowOften, including one related to clinicaltrials.gov data, and future steps. Below are the leads for the different talks; slides and videos from the session are located below.
• Hsin Yi “Cindy” Chen (MD-PhD Student, Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics) • Azza Shoaibi (Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development) • Elise Ruan (Clinical Informatics Fellow, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University) • George Hripcsak (Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University)
• 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 next CBER BEST Seminar will be held Wed., July 17, at 11 am ET and will be led by Yonas Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Lecturer of Statistics at School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, UK. The focus of this talk will be A modified self-controlled case series method for event-dependent exposures and high event-related mortality, with application to COVID-19 vaccine safety. You can access the session using this link.
• 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:
• 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
• Ross Williams announced an opening for a Health Data Scientist at Erasmus MC. The candidate will be responsible for the creation and execution of study software to support the work of epidemiologists. This will include designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining R code that will be executed against health data that is standardized to the OMOP Common Data Model. More information and an application link are available here.
• 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.
• Kevin Haynes shared an opening at CVS Health for a Lead Director, RWE Distributed Research. This position will lead a team of Analytic professionals responsible for transformation of healthcare insurance and pharmacy data into distributed analytic models, including OMOP, used in safety surveillance and collaborative research (SS&C). 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.
00:40 – Background (Chen) 04:22 – Trends in Hospitalization Among Patients with Cardiovascular, Immunological, and neurological Illnesses (Shoaibi) 15:58 – Does Indication Matter? (Chen) 25:56 – Standardization of Clinical Trials Data for Large-Scale Incidence Calculations of Adverse Drug Events (Ruan) 40:28 – Future Steps (Hripcsak)
The July 9 community call featured the first of four summer sessions on Building Up The OHDSI Evidence Network. Patrick Ryan led a session that introduced the OHDSI Evidence Network and how it can benefit the community mission, the challenges around getting OMOP data sources to engage in network studies, a recently published study that could be tested through the Evidence Network, and more.
• 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.
• The next CBER BEST Seminar will be held Wed., July 17, at 11 am ET and will be led by Yonas Ghebremichael-Weldeselassie, Lecturer of Statistics at School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, UK. The focus of this talk will be A modified self-controlled case series method for event-dependent exposures and high event-related mortality, with application to COVID-19 vaccine safety. You can access the session using this link.
• Sarah Seager is the Senior Director, Analytics & AI at IQVIA. She is an experienced technical senior leader who develops and leads analytical teams in the world of data science and advanced analytics. In the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight, Sarah shares her thoughts on the current path of data management and analytics, why OMOP is an ideal common data model, recent advances around the European community, and how data is similar to another one of Sarah’s passions, art.
• To carry out the OHDSI mission, we need an active and willing global network of data partners, and we need the ability to quickly identify those that might be the right fit for a specific clinical research question. Last year we piloted this effort through the Save our Sisyphus challenge and are now ready to move forward based on our learnings. The OHDSI Evidence Network workgroup is excited to initiate a network study that will describe the OHDSI Network in a publication, and will also create an open public resource designed to facilitate evidence generation faster and better than ever by building on methodologies developed by thought leaders around the world. You can access the protocol here, and you can learn more about this effort from a recent OHDSI Evidence Network update. Come join us on this exciting journey!
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:
• 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
• Ross Williams announced an opening for a Health Data Scientist at Erasmus MC. The candidate will be responsible for the creation and execution of study software to support the work of epidemiologists. This will include designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining R code that will be executed against health data that is standardized to the OMOP Common Data Model. More information and an application link are available here.
• 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.
• Kevin Haynes shared an opening at CVS Health for a Lead Director, RWE Distributed Research. This position will lead a team of Analytic professionals responsible for transformation of healthcare insurance and pharmacy data into distributed analytic models, including OMOP, used in safety surveillance and collaborative research (SS&C). 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.
During our annual “Meet New Members of the OHDSI Community” session, some of our newest collaborators had the opportunity to introduce themselves, share their professional journey and discuss how they hope to impact the OHDSI community.
• The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes information on the OHDSI Evidence Network, LLMs in the evidence generation process, the latest collaborator spotlight with Sarah Seager, recent publications and presentations, community updates and more.
• To carry out the OHDSI mission, we need an active and willing global network of data partners, and we need the ability to quickly identify those that might be the right fit for a specific clinical research question. Last year we piloted this effort through the Save our Sisyphus challenge and are now ready to move forward based on our learnings. The OHDSI Evidence Network workgroup is excited to initiate a network study that will describe the OHDSI Network in a publication, and will also create an open public resource designed to facilitate evidence generation faster and better than ever by building on methodologies developed by thought leaders around the world. You can access the protocol here, and you can learn more about this effort from a recent OHDSI Evidence Network update. Come join us on this exciting journey!
• The workshop on “AI for Reliable and Equitable Real-World Evidence Generation in Medicine” at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) will take place on July 9, 2024 at Salt Lake City, Utah. The workshop focuses on advancing the understanding and exploring the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in analyzing real-world data (RWD) for real-world evidence (RWE) generation. Speakers and panelists from informatics, biostatistics, computer science, and related fields across academic institutions, federal agencies, and healthcare providers will be joining us for the workshop.
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 —Transforming lung cancer EHR data into the OMOP CDM: A case study of Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (Evangelos Chandakas (Handakas)) Tuesday — Four Complexities when mapping NCRAS to the OMOP CDM (Laura Kerr) Wednesday — Piloting the Transformation of Multiple Sclerosis Real-World Data to the OMOP CDM: Lessons Learned (Tina Parciak) Thursday — Towards all-Island sharing of Irish lymphoid blood cancers data: landscape and gap analysis (Kluivert Boakye Duah) Friday — Exploring Drug Utilization Patterns in Osteoporosis Therapy (Balqis Istiqomah Gusbela)
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.
• Kevin Haynes shared an opening at CVS Health for a Lead Director, RWE Distributed Research. This position will lead a team of Analytic professionals responsible for transformation of healthcare insurance and pharmacy data into distributed analytic models, including OMOP, used in safety surveillance and collaborative research (SS&C). 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.
The June 25 community call featured our quarterly ‘Recent Publications’ theme. We were happy to welcome four lead authors of recent studies that highlighted either OMOP or OHDSI tools/practices.
• Congratulations to the team of Nicolas Alexander Schulz, Jasmin Carus, Alexander Johannes Wiederhold, Ole Johanns, Frederik Peters, Natalie Rath, Katharina Rausch, Bernd Holleczek, Alexander Katalinic, the AI-CARE Working Group & Christopher Gundler on the recent publication of Learning debiased graph representations from the OMOP common data model for synthetic data generation in BMC Medical Research Methodology.
• Thank you to everybody who shared brief reports for the 2024 Global Symposium. We had more than 140 submissions this year, including more than 20 software demos. The review process will begin this week when the scientific review committee meets this Thursday at 11 am ET.
• To carry out the OHDSI mission, we need an active and willing global network of data partners, and we need the ability to quickly identify those that might be the right fit for a specific clinical research question. Last year we piloted this effort through the Save our Sisyphus challenge and are now ready to move forward based on our learnings. The OHDSI Evidence Network workgroup is excited to initiate a network study that will describe the OHDSI Network in a publication, and will also create an open public resource designed to facilitate evidence generation faster and better than ever by building on methodologies developed by thought leaders around the world. You can access the protocol here, and you can learn more about this effort from a recent OHDSI Evidence Network update. Come join us on this exciting journey!
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, June 26, at 11 am ET. Jenna Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, will lead a session on Applying Machine Learning in Distributed Networks to Support Activities for Post-Market Surveillance of Medical Products: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations. The full schedule for the CBER BEST Seminar Series, including past presentations, is available here.
• The July 2 community call will be our annual “Newcomer Introductions” session. We invite any of our newer members of the OHDSI community to join the call, introduce themselves and share about how they hope to collaborate with the community. To ensure the opportunity to take part in this session, please fill out this brief form.
• The workshop on “AI for Reliable and Equitable Real-World Evidence Generation in Medicine” at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) will take place on July 9, 2024 at Salt Lake City, Utah. The workshop focuses on advancing the understanding and exploring the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in analyzing real-world data (RWD) for real-world evidence (RWE) generation. Speakers and panelists from informatics, biostatistics, computer science, and related fields across academic institutions, federal agencies, and healthcare providers will be joining us for the workshop.
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 — Expanding the OUH Clinical Data Warehouse data delivery infrastructure with OMOP CDM and OHDSI tools (Olivier Bouissou) Tuesday — Trade-offs in the design of explainable prediction models for health care (Aniek Markus) Wednesday — BC Platforms’ Systematic Approach to OMOP Oncology Federated Query and Analytical Solutions in ONCOVALUE consortium (Mai Nguyen) Thursday — Create a matched cohort to provide context for your large-scale characterization (Marta Alcalde-Herraiz) Friday — Advancements in Automated OMOP Concept Code Selection: Leveraging GPT-4 for Efficient and Accurate Mapping of Drug description and ATC to RxNorm (Extension) (Vita De Vos)
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
• Daniel Prieto-Alhambra announced an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Real World Evidence to join the Pharmaco- and Device epidemiology research group at the Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, University of Oxford. This person will be leading or co-leading real world evidence studies, analysing real world health data mapped to the OMOP common data model and write study reports and scientific manuscripts. More details and an application link are available here; the application deadline is 12 pm on July 1, 2024.
• 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.
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent long COVID: data from Norway (Nhung Trinh)
Calculating daily dose in the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (Theresa Burkard)
Comparing penalization methods for linear models on large observational health data (Egill Fridgeirsson)
Similar Risk of Kidney Failure among Patients with Blinding Diseases Who Receive Ranibizumab, Aflibercept, and Bevacizumab: An Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Network Study (Cindy Cai)
The June 18 community call focused on the Application of Large Language Models in the Evidence Generation Process. We welcomed three members of the community to present recent research in this area.
Knowledge-guided Generative AI For Automated Taxonomy Learning From Drug Labels – Yilu Fang • PhD Student, Columbia University A Chatbot to Streamline Biomedical Data Discovery and Analysis – João Almeida • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Aveiro Generative AI for real-world evidence – Martijn Schuemie • Research Fellow, Epidemiology Analytics, Janssen Research and Development
Community Updates
• All collaborator showcase submissions for the 2024 Global Symposium are due by 8 pm ET on Friday, June 21.Please use this link to submit your brief report!
• To carry out the OHDSI mission, we need an active and willing global network of data partners, and we need the ability to quickly identify those that might be the right fit for a specific clinical research question. Last year we piloted this effort through the Save our Sisyphus challenge and are now ready to move forward based on our learnings. The OHDSI Evidence Network workgroup is excited to initiate a network study that will describe the OHDSI Network in a publication, and will also create an open public resource designed to facilitate evidence generation faster and better than ever by building on methodologies developed by thought leaders around the world.
You can access the protocol here, and you can learn more about this effort from a recent OHDSI Evidence Network update. Come join us on this exciting journey!
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, June 26, at 11 am ET. Jenna Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, will lead a session on Applying Machine Learning in Distributed Networks to Support Activities for Post-Market Surveillance of Medical Products: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations. The full schedule for the CBER BEST Seminar Series, including past presentations, is available here.
• The July 2 community call will be our annual “Newcomer Introductions” session. We invite any of our newer members of the OHDSI community to join the call, introduce themselves and share about how they hope to collaborate with the community. To ensure the opportunity to take part in this session, please fill out this brief form.
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.
• Collaborator Showcase submissions are now being accepted, and all details about the event are available here. Submissions are due by Friday, June 21, at 8 pm ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Job Openings
• Daniel Prieto-Alhambra announced an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Real World Evidence to join the Pharmaco- and Device epidemiology research group at the Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, University of Oxford. This person will be leading or co-leading real world evidence studies, analysing real world health data mapped to the OMOP common data model and write study reports and scientific manuscripts. More details and an application link are available here; the application deadline is 12 pm on July 1, 2024.
• 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.
The June 11 community call provided a review of the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium. Following an introduction about the event, we heard about the training activities (with a focus on ETL), software demos, and an example of progress being made among the National Nodes (Belgium).
We were excited to welcome the following to lead this session:
– Peter Reinbeek • Professor of Medical Informatics and Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC – Maxim Moinat • Scientific Researcher, Erasmus MC – Cesar Barboza Gutierrez • R Software Developer, Erasmus MC – Liesbet Peeters • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Sciences, UHasselt
Clair Blacketer also provided an update on a new protocol and network study associated with the OHDSI Evidence Network, and shared how databases can join this growing research asset for the community.
Both video presentations are available below.
Community Updates
• All collaborator showcase submissions for the 2024 Global Symposium are due by 8 pm ET on Friday, June 21.Please use this link to submit your brief report!
• To carry out the OHDSI mission, we need an active and willing global network of data partners, and we need the ability to quickly identify those that might be the right fit for a specific clinical research question. Last year we piloted this effort through the Save our Sisyphus challenge and are now ready to move forward based on our learnings. The OHDSI Evidence Network workgroup is excited to initiate a network study that will describe the OHDSI Network in a publication, and will also create an open public resource designed to facilitate evidence generation faster and better than ever by building on methodologies developed by thought leaders around the world.
You can access the protocol here. Come join us on this exciting journey!
• Congratulations to the team of Maria A Rujano, Jan-Willem Boiten, Christian Ohmann, Steve Canham, Sergio Contrino, Romain David, Jonathan Ewbank, Claudia Filippone, Claire Connellan, Ilse Custers, Rick van Nuland, Michaela Th Mayrhofer, Petr Holub, Eva García Álvarez, Emmanuel Bacry, Nigel Hughes, Mallory A Freeberg, Birgit Schaffhauser, Harald Wagener, Alex Sánchez-Pla, Guido Bertolini, Maria Panagiotopoulou on the recent publication of Sharing sensitive data in life sciences: an overview of centralized and federated approaches in Briefings in Bioinformatics.
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, June 26, at 11 am ET. Jenna Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, will lead a session on Applying Machine Learning in Distributed Networks to Support Activities for Post-Market Surveillance of Medical Products: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations. The full schedule for the CBER BEST Seminar Series, including past presentations, is available here.
• If you are attending #DIA2024 in San Diego next week, there will be an OHDSI meetup on Tuesday, June 18, at 6 pm. Thanks to Davera Gabriel and Mui Van Zandt for leading this effort to connect, network and celebrate the many accomplishments of our community!
2024 OHDSI Global Symposium
• Registration is now 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.
• Collaborator Showcase submissions are now being accepted, and all details about the event are available here. Submissions are due by Friday, June 21, at 8 pm ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Job Openings
• 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.
The May 28 community call provided an opportunity for community members to collaborate on early research ideas for the OHDSI 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase.
The Collaborator Showcase has had a record number of submissions in each of the last two years, but many still wonder if their interests or current research fit into a showcase submission (hint: it probably does). Patrick Ryan shares thoughts on what type of research can benefit the community at the Global Symposium, which you can see at the bottom of this section.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Theresa Burkard, Kim López-Güell, Artem Gorbachev, Lucía Bellas, Annika Jödicke, Edward Burn, Maria de Ridder, Mees Mosseveld, Jasmine Gratton, Sarah Seager, Dina Vojinovic, Miguel Angel Mayer, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Angela Leis Machín, Marek Oja, Raivo Kolde, Klaus Bonadt, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Chistian Reich, and Martí Català on the recent publication of Calculating daily dose in the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety.
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, June 26, at 11 am ET. Jenna Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, will lead a session on Applying Machine Learning in Distributed Networks to Support Activities for Post-Market Surveillance of Medical Products: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations. The full schedule for the CBER BEST Seminar Series, including past presentations, is available here.
• Applications are being accepted to join the 2024-25 Kheiron Cohort through June 1. This program is designed to onboard new contributors into OHDSI to empower them to become active contributors and maintainers. The goals are to provide career development, create a global perspective of the ecosystem, build cross-connections between projects and develop future leaders for OHDSI. You can apply for the upcoming cohort now!
• Linying Zhang is organizing a workshop on “AI for Reliable and Equitable Real-World Evidence Generation in Medicine” at the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine(AIME), happening at Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 9-12, 2024. The workshop focuses on advancing the understanding and exploring the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in analyzing real-world data (RWD) for real-world evidence (RWE) generation. George Hripcsak will be delivering the opening keynote speech. The workshop will also feature scientific presentations from authors with accepted papers or abstracts, and potentially a panel or debate. The intended length is 4 hours. We are calling for submissions of full papers, short papers, and poster abstracts! The submission deadline is May 31, 2024. More information is available on the workshop or AIME Conference homepages.
• The Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine welcomes Peter Robinson, the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, who will provide a talk on “The GA4GH Phenopacket Schema: A Standard for Computable Case Reports to Support Translational Genomic Research and Clinical Decision Support Software” on Thursday, May 30, at 11 am ET. Please contact Marty Alvarez at malvarez2@tuftsmedicalcenter.org for calendar invite or questions.
2024 OHDSI Global Symposium
• Registration is now 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.
• Collaborator Showcase submissions are now being accepted, and all details about the event are available here. Submissions are due by Friday, June 21, at 8 pm ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Job Openings
• 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.
The May 21 community call featured four network studies that are taking place within the OHDSI community. We welcomed the following leads/representatives to discuss their studies:
Atif Adam, Associate Director of Epidemiology, IQVIA
Linying Zhang, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Chungsoo Kim, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Daniel Morales, Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow, University of Dundee
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, May 22, at 11 am ET. We are excited to welcome George Hripcsak to share a presentation on Diagnosing Covariate Imbalance in Small-Cohort Studies. You can read about the talk, find the meeting link and watch past presentations on our CBER BEST Seminar Series homepage.
• Applications are being accepted to join the 2024-25 Kheiron Cohort. This program is designed to onboard new contributors into OHDSI to empower them to become active contributors and maintainers. The goals are to provide career development, create a global perspective of the ecosystem, build cross-connections between projects and develop future leaders for OHDSI. You can apply for the upcoming cohort now!
• Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Maternal Health Data Science Fellowship, which is designed to empower clinical investigators to leverage emerging technologies for improved maternal and neonatal care while reducing morbidity and mortality. The program, which will include the components of career development, practice and networking, will train clinical investigators in observational research methods to enable them to conduct reproducible research and generate real-world evidence. More information, including application details, are now available, and the deadline to apply is May 22, 2024.
• Marissa Fiorella shared a forum post highlighting the upcoming Symposium on Risks and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence in Pharmaceutical Medicine (AIPM), which will be held June 10-11 at Northeastern University, and will also have a Zoom option. Some OHDSI collaborators who are either speaking or helping organize the event are David Madigan, Asieh Golozar, David Sontag, Louisa Smith, and Marc Suchard. More details and registration information are available here.
• Linying Zhang is organizing a workshop on “AI for Reliable and Equitable Real-World Evidence Generation in Medicine” at the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine(AIME), happening at Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 9-12, 2024. The workshop focuses on advancing the understanding and exploring the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in analyzing real-world data (RWD) for real-world evidence (RWE) generation. George Hripcsakwill be delivering the opening keynote speech. The workshop will also feature scientific presentations from authors with accepted papers or abstracts, and potentially a panel or debate. The intended length is 4 hours. We are calling for submissions of full papers, short papers, and poster abstracts! The submission deadline is May 31, 2024. More information is available on the workshop or AIME Conference homepages.
• The Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine welcomes Peter Robinson, the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, who will provide a talk on “The GA4GH Phenopacket Schema: A Standard for Computable Case Reports to Support Translational Genomic Research and Clinical Decision Support Software” on Thursday, May 30, at 11 am ET. Please contact Marty Alvarez at malvarez2@tuftsmedicalcenter.org for calendar invite or questions.
• Registration is open for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
2024 OHDSI Global Symposium
• Registration is now 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.
• Collaborator Showcase submissions are now being accepted, and all details about the event are available here. Submissions are due by Friday, June 21, at 8 pm ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Tuesday, Aug. 20.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• 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.
The May 14 community call featured a series of 10-minute tutorials, as four open-source development leaders provide introductions and brief live demonstrations on tools that can aid our community in observational healthcare research:
• Martí Català Sabaté, Medical Statistician/Data Scientist, University of Oxford (Drug Utilization) • Kim López Güell, Dphil Student, University of Oxford (Cohort Survival) • Maarten van Kessel, Software Developer, Erasmus MC (Treatment Pattens) • Louisa Smith, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University (All of Us Research)
Community Updates
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, May 22, at 11 am ET. We are excited to welcome George Hripcsak to share a presentation on Diagnosing Covariate Imbalance in Small-Cohort Studies. You can read about the talk, find the meeting link and watch past presentations on our CBER BEST Seminar Series homepage.
• Applications are being accepted to join the 2024-25 Kheiron Cohort. This program is designed to onboard new contributors into OHDSI to empower them to become active contributors and maintainers. The goals are to provide career development, create a global perspective of the ecosystem, build cross-connections between projects and develop future leaders for OHDSI. You can apply for the upcoming cohort now!
• Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Maternal Health Data Science Fellowship, which is designed to empower clinical investigators to leverage emerging technologies for improved maternal and neonatal care while reducing morbidity and mortality. The program, which will include the components of career development, practice and networking, will train clinical investigators in observational research methods to enable them to conduct reproducible research and generate real-world evidence. More information, including application details, are now available, and the deadline to apply is May 22, 2024.
• Marissa Fiorella shared a forum post highlighting the upcoming Symposium on Risks and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence in Pharmaceutical Medicine (AIPM), which will be held June 10-11 at Northeastern University, and will also have a Zoom option. Some OHDSI collaborators who are either speaking or helping organize the event are David Madigan, Asieh Golozar, David Sontag, Louisa Smith, and Marc Suchard. More details and registration information are available here.
• Linying Zhang is organizing a workshop on “AI for Reliable and Equitable Real-World Evidence Generation in Medicine” at the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine(AIME), happening at Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 9-12, 2024. The workshop focuses on advancing the understanding and exploring the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in analyzing real-world data (RWD) for real-world evidence (RWE) generation. George Hripcsakwill be delivering the opening keynote speech. The workshop will also feature scientific presentations from authors with accepted papers or abstracts, and potentially a panel or debate. The intended length is 4 hours. We are calling for submissions of full papers, short papers, and poster abstracts! The submission deadline is May 31, 2024. More information is available on the workshop or AIME Conference homepages.
• Registration is open for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
2024 OHDSI Global Symposium
• Registration is now 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.
• Collaborator Showcase submissions are now being accepted, and all details about the event are available here. Submissions are due by Friday, June 21, at 8 pm ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Tuesday, Aug. 20.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• 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.
• Dani Prieto-Alhambra recently shared an opening for two Research Assistants in Health Data Sciences to join the Pharmaco- and Device epidemiology research group at the Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, University of Oxford. In this role, you will contribute to the programming of analytical pipelines for the analysis of routinely collected data mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model. You will analyze real world data to address regulatory questions related to the prevalence/incidence of disease, use of medicines/vaccines, and the risks or benefits of medicines/vaccines or devices. You will prepare analytical packages to run a number of pre-specified analyses, contribute to wider project planning, including ideas for new research projects and gather, analyze, and present scientific data from a variety of sources. The application deadline is May 10. More information and an application link are available here.
The May 7 community call featured a review of DevCon 2024, which served as an opportunity to connect our global open-source community and discuss ways we can collaborate and continue enhancing the future of OHDSI open-source software.
This session included several speakers and topics from the event, including:
• Paul Nagy, Johns Hopkins University (Open-Source Overview) • Vishnu Chandrabalan, Lancaster University (OHDSI/OMOP – The hard way is the easy way) • Roger Carlson, Spectrum Health (Moving OMOP to the Cloud with DBT and Snowflake) • Lee Evans, LTS Computing LLC (Broadsea Update) • Frank DeFalco, Janssen Research & Development (Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Update) • Katy Sadowski, Boehringer Ingelheim (Kheiron Cohort Update)
This presentation is posted below. All recordings from the full DevCon 2024 session are available on the event homepage.
• Congratulations to the team of Nhung TH Trinh, Annika M Jödicke, Martí Català, Núria Mercadé-Besora, Saeed Hayati, Angela Lupattelli, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, and Hedvig ME Nordeng on the publication of Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent long COVID: data from Norway in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
• The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available, and it includes reflections on both the April Olympians and DevCon events, community updates, a collaborator showcase, publications and presentations from April, and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter in your email, you can subscribe here.
• Montse Camprubi works at Synapse Research Management Partners. Currently the EHDEN community manager, she is leading the central coordination efforts between EHDEN Data Partners and certified SMES and EHDEN experts. In the latest edition of the collaborator spotlight, Montse discusses her background and career journey, recent highlights and future plans in EHDEN, the upcoming OHDSI Europe Symposium, and plenty more.
• Applications are being accepted to join the 2024-25 Kheiron Cohort. This program is designed to onboard new contributors into OHDSI to empower them to become active contributors and maintainers. The goals are to provide career development, create a global perspective of the ecosystem, build cross-connections between projects and develop future leaders for OHDSI. You can apply for the upcoming cohort now!
• Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Maternal Health Data Science Fellowship, which is designed to empower clinical investigators to leverage emerging technologies for improved maternal and neonatal care while reducing morbidity and mortality. The program, which will include the components of career development, practice and networking, will train clinical investigators in observational research methods to enable them to conduct reproducible research and generate real-world evidence. More information, including application details, are now available, and the deadline to apply is May 22, 2024.
• Marissa Fiorella shared a forum post highlighting the upcoming Symposium on Risks and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence in Pharmaceutical Medicine (AIPM), which will be held June 10-11 at Northeastern University, and will also have a Zoom option. Some OHDSI collaborators who are either speaking or helping organize the event are David Madigan, Asieh Golozar, David Sontag, Louisa Smith, and Marc Suchard. More details and registration information are available here.
• Linying Zhang is organizing a workshop on “AI for Reliable and Equitable Real-World Evidence Generation in Medicine” at the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine(AIME), happening at Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 9-12, 2024. The workshop focuses on advancing the understanding and exploring the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in analyzing real-world data (RWD) for real-world evidence (RWE) generation. George Hripcsakwill be delivering the opening keynote speech. The workshop will also feature scientific presentations from authors with accepted papers or abstracts, and potentially a panel or debate. The intended length is 4 hours. We are calling for submissions of full papers, short papers, and poster abstracts! The submission deadline is May 31, 2024. More information is available on the workshop or AIME Conference homepages.
• Registration is open for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
2024 OHDSI Global Symposium
• Registration is now 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.
• Collaborator Showcase submissions are now being accepted, and all details about the event are available here. Submissions are due by Friday, June 21, at 8 pm ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Tuesday, Aug. 20.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Ross Williams shared that the Erasmus MC Department of Medical Informatics is looking for a PhD student to work on cutting-edge health AI and data science topics. This person will be responsible for the research on using federated data networks to improve best practices around the development and validation of prediction models. You will lead and contribute to projects conducting methodological research within the field of machine learning in healthcare. More information and the application link are available here. The application deadline is May 13.
• 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.
• Dani Prieto-Alhambra recently shared an opening for two Research Assistants in Health Data Sciences to join the Pharmaco- and Device epidemiology research group at the Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, University of Oxford. In this role, you will contribute to the programming of analytical pipelines for the analysis of routinely collected data mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model. You will analyze real world data to address regulatory questions related to the prevalence/incidence of disease, use of medicines/vaccines, and the risks or benefits of medicines/vaccines or devices. You will prepare analytical packages to run a number of pre-specified analyses, contribute to wider project planning, including ideas for new research projects and gather, analyze, and present scientific data from a variety of sources. The application deadline is May 10. More information and an application link are available here.
The conclusion of the April Olympians collaborative activity includes thanks to the many community members who took part, and an interactive game that highlights how to use the newly developed Themis conventions homepage. This session is led by Clair Blacketer, Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research & Development.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Martin Baumgartner, Karl Kreiner, Aaron Lauschensky, Bernhard Jammerbund, Klaus Donsa, Dieter Hayn, Fabian Wiesmüller, Lea Demelius, Robert Modre-Osprian, Sabrina Neururer, Gerald Slamanig, Sarah Prantl, Luca Brunelli, Bernhard Pfeifer, Gerhard Pölzl, and Günter Schreier on the publication of Health data space nodes for privacy-preserving linkage of medical data to support collaborative secondary analyses in Frontiers in Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Markus Falgenhauer, Aaron Lauschensky, Karl Kreiner, Stefan Beyer, Kristina Reiter, Andreas Ziegl, Robert Modre-Osprian, Bernhard Pfeifer, Sabrina Neururer, Susanne Krestan, Hanna Wagner, Andreas Huber, Sandra Plaikner, Sarah Kuppelwieser, Martin Widschwendter, and Günter Schreier on the publication of Towards an Electronic Health Prevention Record Based on HL7 FHIR and the OMOP Common Data Model in Volume 313 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
• DevCon 2024 served as an opportunity to connect our global open-source community and discuss ways we can collaborate and continue enhancing the future of OHDSI open-source software. The full agenda from the event is posted below, and recordings are available on the event homepage.
• Applications are being accepted to join the 2024-25 Kheiron Cohort. This program is designed to onboard new contributors into OHDSI to empower them to become active contributors and maintainers. The goals are to provide career development, create a global perspective of the ecosystem, build cross-connections between projects and develop future leaders for OHDSI. You can apply for the upcoming cohort now!
• Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Maternal Health Data Science Fellowship, which is designed to empower clinical investigators to leverage emerging technologies for improved maternal and neonatal care while reducing morbidity and mortality. The program, which will include the components of career development, practice and networking, will train clinical investigators in observational research methods to enable them to conduct reproducible research and generate real-world evidence. More information, including application details, are now available, and the deadline to apply is May 15, 2024.
• Linying Zhang is organizing a workshop on “AI for Reliable and Equitable Real-World Evidence Generation in Medicine” at the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine(AIME), happening at Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 9-12, 2024. The workshop focuses on advancing the understanding and exploring the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in analyzing real-world data (RWD) for real-world evidence (RWE) generation. George Hripcsakwill be delivering the opening keynote speech. The workshop will also feature scientific presentations from authors with accepted papers or abstracts, and potentially a panel or debate. The intended length is 4 hours. We are calling for submissions of full papers, short papers, and poster abstracts! The submission deadline is May 31, 2024. More information is available on the workshop or AIME Conference homepages.
• Registration is open for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
2024 OHDSI Global Symposium
• Registration is now 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.
• Collaborator Showcase submissions are now being accepted, and all details about the event are available here. Submissions are due by Friday, June 21, at 8 pm ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Tuesday, Aug. 20.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Dani Prieto-Alhambra recently shared an opening for two Research Assistants in Health Data Sciences to join the Pharmaco- and Device epidemiology research group at the Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, University of Oxford. In this role, you will contribute to the programming of analytical pipelines for the analysis of routinely collected data mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model. You will analyze real world data to address regulatory questions related to the prevalence/incidence of disease, use of medicines/vaccines, and the risks or benefits of medicines/vaccines or devices. You will prepare analytical packages to run a number of pre-specified analyses, contribute to wider project planning, including ideas for new research projects and gather, analyze, and present scientific data from a variety of sources. The application deadline is May 10. More information and an application link are available here.
• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Scienceat Gilead. As a RWE Data Scientist (OMOP/OHDSI), you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining healthcare data solutions using the OHDSI framework. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to advancements in health informatics and research.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
The April 23 community call focused on the CDM and Themis Process. This call provided historical and current information about both the CDM and Themis workgroups, including their mission and processes. Presentations were made by our April Olympians co-leads:
– Clair Blacketer, Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research & Development – Melanie Philofsky, Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager, Odysseus Data Services, Inc.
This session also included our fourth update on the April Olympians community activity. You can watch the full presentation below.
• Congratulations to the team of Giorgio Gandaglia, Francesco Pellegrino, Asieh Golozar, Bertrand De Meulder, Thomas Abbott, Ariel Achtman, Muhammad Imran Omar, Thamir Alshammari, Carlos Areia, Alex Asiimwe, Katharina Beyer, Anders Bjartell, Riccardo Campi, Philip Cornford, Thomas Falconer, Qi Feng, Mengchun Gong, Ronald Herrera, Nigel Hughes, Tim Hulsen, Adam Kinnaird, Lana Y.H. Lai, Gianluca Maresca, Nicolas Mottet, Marek Oja, Peter Prinsen, Christian Reich, Sebastiaan Remmers, Monique J. Roobol, Vasileios Sakalis, Sarah Seager, Emma J. Smith, Robert Snijder, Carl Steinbeisser, Nicolas H. Thurin, Ayman Hijazy, Kees van Bochove, Roderick C.N. Van den Bergh, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Peter-Paul Willemse, Andrew E. Williams, Nazanin Zounemat Kermani, Susan Evans-Axelsson, Alberto Briganti, James N’Dow, on behalf of the PIONEER Consortium on the publication of Clinical Characterization of Patients Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and Undergoing Conservative Management: A PIONEER Analysis Based on Big Data in European Urology.
• Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Maternal Health Data Science Fellowship, which is designed to empower clinical investigators to leverage emerging technologies for improved maternal and neonatal care while reducing morbidity and mortality. The program, which will include the components of career development, practice and networking, will train clinical investigators in observational research methods to enable them to conduct reproducible research and generate real-world evidence. More information, including application details, are now available, and the deadline to apply is May 15, 2024.
• The third annual OHDSI DevCon will be held virtually on Friday, April 26, from 9 am-3 pm ET. Join leaders from our Open-Source Community for a day to both welcome and inform both new and veteran developers within the OHDSI Community. More details on the agenda will be posted when available.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
2024 OHDSI Global Symposium
• Registration is now 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.
• Collaborator Showcase submissions are now being accepted, and all details about the event are available here. Submissions are due by Friday, June 21, at 8 pm ET. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by Tuesday, Aug. 20.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Dani Prieto-Alhambra recently shared an opening for two Research Assistants in Health Data Sciences to join the Pharmaco- and Device epidemiology research group at the Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS, University of Oxford. In this role, you will contribute to the programming of analytical pipelines for the analysis of routinely collected data mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model. You will analyze real world data to address regulatory questions related to the prevalence/incidence of disease, use of medicines/vaccines, and the risks or benefits of medicines/vaccines or devices. You will prepare analytical packages to run a number of pre-specified analyses, contribute to wider project planning, including ideas for new research projects and gather, analyze, and present scientific data from a variety of sources. The application deadline is May 10. More information and an application link are available here.
• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Scienceat Gilead. As a RWE Data Scientist (OMOP/OHDSI), you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining healthcare data solutions using the OHDSI framework. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to advancements in health informatics and research.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
The April 16 community call focused on Tools to Evaluate ETL. We welcomed two community leaders to lead our main session:
– Frank DeFalco, Senior Director, Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research & Development – Katy Sadowski, Senior Associate Director, Boehringer Ingelheim
This session also included our third update on the April Olympians community activity. Both presentations are available below.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Nhung TH Trinh, Annika M Jödicke, Martí Català, Núria Mercadé-Besora, Saeed Hayati, Angela Lupattelli, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, and Hedvig ME Nordeng on the publication of Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent long COVID: data from Norway in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Ailbhe Lawlor, Carol Lin, Juan Gómez Rivas, Laura Ibáñez, Pablo Abad López, Peter-Paul Willemse, Muhammad Imran Omar, Sebastiaan Remmers, Philip Cornford, Pawel Rajwa, Rossella Nicoletti, Giorgio Gandaglia, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Jesús Moreno Sierra, Asieh Golozar, Anders Bjartell, Susan Evans-Axelsson, James N’Dow, Jihong Zong, Maria J. Ribal, Monique J. Roobol, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Katharina Beyer, on behalf of the PIONEER Consortium on the publication of Predictive Models for Assessing Patients’ Response to Treatment in Metastatic Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review in European Urology Open Science.
• Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Maternal Health Data Science Fellowship, which is designed to empower clinical investigators to leverage emerging technologies for improved maternal and neonatal care while reducing morbidity and mortality. The program, which will include the components of career development, practice and networking, will train clinical investigators in observational research methods to enable them to conduct reproducible research and generate real-world evidence. More information, including application details, are now available, and the deadline to apply is May 15, 2024.
• The CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series returns Wednesday, April 17 (11 am – 12 pm ET) as 2021 Titan Award honoree Yong Chen presents his research on“Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents: causal inference under misclassification in treatment status.” This series is open to anybody: Calendar invite to CBER BEST Seminar.
• The third annual OHDSI DevCon will be held virtually on Friday, April 26, from 9 am-3 pm ET. Join leaders from our Open-Source Community for a day to both welcome and inform both new and veteran developers within the OHDSI Community. More details on the agenda will be posted when available.
• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials on Oct. 22, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• Atif Adam announced an opportunity for collaboration around a new network study focusing on Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). The study intends to deepen the understanding of STEMI patients’ characteristics and identify incidence rates across multiple real-world data datasets. More details and information on how to get involved are available within the forum post.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Scienceat Gilead. As a RWE Data Scientist (OMOP/OHDSI), you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining healthcare data solutions using the OHDSI framework. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to advancements in health informatics and research.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
The April 9 community call focused on Vocabulary Techniques for ETL. This call also included our second April Olympians update (Clair Blacketer and Melanie Philofsky), as well as the first OKR presentation from the newly formed Rehabilitation Workgroup (Ruud Selles and Esther Janssen).
We welcomed four community leaders to present on Vocabulary Techiques for ETL:
– Dmitry Dymshyts, Associate Director, Janssen Research & Development – Tanya Skugarevskaya, Vocabulary Team, Odysseus Data Services, Inc. – Anna Ostropolets, Associate Director, Janssen Research & Development – Alexander Davydov, Director, Lead of Medical Ontologies, Odysseus Data Services, Inc.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Pawel Rajwa, Angelika Borkowetz, Thomas Abbott, Andrea Alberti, Anders Bjartell, James T. Brash, Riccardo Campi, Andrew Chilelli, Mitchell Conover, Niculae Constantinovici, Eleanor Davies, Bertrand De Meulder, Sherrine Eid, Mauro Gacci, Asieh Golozar, Haroon Hafeez, Samiul Haque, Ayman Hijazy, Tim Hulsen, Andreas Josefsson, Sara Khalid, Raivo Kolde, Daniel Kotik, Samu Kurki, Mark Lambrecht, Chi-Ho Leung, Julia Moreno, Rossella Nicoletti, Daan Nieboer, Marek Oja, Soundarya Palanisamy, Peter Prinsen, Christian Reich, Giulio Raffaele Resta, Maria J Ribal, Juan Gómez Rivas, Emma Smith, Robert Snijder, Carl Steinbeisser, Frederik Vandenberghe, Philip Cornford, Susan Evans-Axelsson, James N’Dow, and Peter-Paul M Willemse on the publication of Research Protocol for an Observational Health Data Analysis on the Adverse Events of Systemic Treatment in Patients with Metastatic Hormone-sensitive Prostate Cancer: Big Data Analytics Using the PIONEER Platform in European Urology Open Science.
• The CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series returns Wednesday, April 17 (11 am – 12 pm ET) as 2021 Titan Award honoree Yong Chen presents his research on“Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents: causal inference under misclassification in treatment status.” This series is open to anybody: Calendar invite to CBER BEST Seminar.
• The latest OHDSI newsletter is now available. This newsletter includes information on the recent standardized vocabularies release, a preview of the April Olympians collaborative activity, the latest collaborator spotlight on Melanie Philofsky, the monthly videocast, links to the nine published studies from the OHDSI community in March, and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter in your inbox, you can subscribe here.
• Melanie Philofsky is a Senior Business & Data Analyst with Odysseus Data Services, Inc. She is responsible for the harmonization of various healthcare data sources into the OMOP Common Data Model to support research endeavors. Her areas of expertise include clinical informatics, data analysis, data quality, ETL conversions, EHR data, the OMOP CDM and data modeling of new domains. Melanie was the 2022 Titan Award honoree for Contributions in Data Standards. In the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight, she discusses her career journey, her work with the Healthcare Systems and Themis workgroups, plans for the April Olympians Collab-a-thon, and more!
• The HADES-wide release 2024Q1 has been released. This is a snapshot of the HADES packages and their dependencies, thoroughly tested and confirmed to be mutually compatible. It is intended to be a stable environment for studies and execution engines. Currently, the release is only available as an renv lock file 3, but folks are working on containers as well.
• The third annual OHDSI DevCon will be held virtually on Friday, April 26, from 9 am-3 pm ET. Join leaders from our Open-Source Community for a day to both welcome and inform both new and veteran developers within the OHDSI Community. More details on the agenda will be posted when available.
• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials on Oct. 22, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• Atif Adam announced an opportunity for collaboration around a new network study focusing on Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). The study intends to deepen the understanding of STEMI patients’ characteristics and identify incidence rates across multiple real-world data datasets. More details and information on how to get involved are available within the forum post.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Scienceat Gilead. As a RWE Data Scientist (OMOP/OHDSI), you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining healthcare data solutions using the OHDSI framework. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to advancements in health informatics and research.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
The April 2 (11 am ET) community call featured our first “April Olympians” session. Event co-leads Clair Blacketer and Melanie Philofsky provided the first update, including examples of what the ‘hunters’ and ‘writers’ will do during the month, and details on how to get involved throughout the month. Anton Ivanov also joined to discuss the Perseus ETL tool.
• Congratulations to the team of Cindy Cai, Akihiko Nishimura, Mary Bowring, Erik Westlund, Diep Tran, Jia Ng, Paul Nagy, Michael Cook, Jody-Ann McLeggon, Scott DuVall, Michael Matheny, Asieh Golozar, Anna Ostropolets, Evan Minty, Priya Desai, Fan Bu, Brian Toy, Michelle Hribar, Thomas Falconer, Linying Zhang, Laurence Lawrence-Archer, Michael Boland, Kerry Goetz, Nathan Hall, Azza Shoaibi, Jenna Reps, Anthony Sena, Clair Blacketer, Joel Swerdel, Kenar Jhaveri, Edward Lee, Zachary Gilbert, Scott Zeger, Deidra Crews, Marc Suchard, George Hripcsak, and Patrick Ryan on the publication of Similar risk of kidney failure among patients with blinding diseases who receive ranibizumab, aflibercept, and bevacizumab: an OHDSI Network Study in Ophthalmology Retina.
• The CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series returns Wednesday, April 17 (11 am – 12 pm ET) as 2021 Titan Award honoree Yong Chen presents his research on“Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents: causal inference under misclassification in treatment status.” This series is open to anybody: Calendar invite to CBER BEST Seminar.
• The latest OHDSI newsletter is now available. This newsletter includes information on the recent standardized vocabularies release, a preview of the April Olympians collaborative activity, the latest collaborator spotlight on Melanie Philofsky, the monthly videocast, links to the nine published studies from the OHDSI community in March, and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter in your inbox, you can subscribe here.
• Melanie Philofsky is a Senior Business & Data Analyst with Odysseus Data Services, Inc. She is responsible for the harmonization of various healthcare data sources into the OMOP Common Data Model to support research endeavors. Her areas of expertise include clinical informatics, data analysis, data quality, ETL conversions, EHR data, the OMOP CDM and data modeling of new domains. Melanie was the 2022 Titan Award honoree for Contributions in Data Standards. In the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight, she discusses her career journey, her work with the Healthcare Systems and Themis workgroups, plans for the April Olympians Collab-a-thon, and more!
• The third annual OHDSI DevCon will be held virtually on Friday, April 26, from 9 am-3 pm ET. Join leaders from our Open-Source Community for a day to both welcome and inform both new and veteran developers within the OHDSI Community. More details on the agenda will be posted when available.
• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials on Oct. 22, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• Atif Adam announced an opportunity for collaboration around a new network study focusing on Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). The study intends to deepen the understanding of STEMI patients’ characteristics and identify incidence rates across multiple real-world data datasets. More details and information on how to get involved are available within the forum post.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Scienceat Gilead. As a RWE Data Scientist (OMOP/OHDSI), you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining healthcare data solutions using the OHDSI framework. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to advancements in health informatics and research.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.
The March 26 community call featured a session on recent publications from the OHDSI community. OHDSI collaborators have published more than 600 studies related to the OMOP CDM and/or OHDSI tools or methods, and we welcomed five lead authors to present their recent publications.
• Congratulations to the team of Markus Haug, Marek Oja, Maarja Pajusalu, Kerli Mooses, Sulev Reisberg, Jaak Vilo, Antonio Fernández Giménez, Thomas Falconer, Ana Danilović, Filip Maljkovic, Dalia Dawoud, and Raivo Kolde on the publication of Markov modeling for cost-effectiveness using federated health data network in JAMIA.
• The third annual OHDSI DevCon will be held virtually on Friday, April 26, from 9 am-3 pm ET. Join leaders from our Open-Source Community for a day to both welcome and inform both new and veteran developers within the OHDSI Community. More details on the agenda will be posted when available.
• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials on Oct. 22, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• Atif Adam announced an opportunity for collaboration around a new network study focusing on Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). The study intends to deepen the understanding of STEMI patients’ characteristics and identify incidence rates across multiple real-world data datasets. More details and information on how to get involved are available within the forum post.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Scienceat Gilead. As a RWE Data Scientist (OMOP/OHDSI), you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining healthcare data solutions using the OHDSI framework. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to advancements in health informatics and research.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.
The March 12 community call featured a session on March Madness and April Olympians. March Madness: Less than two weeks after the latest release of OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies, this session found some of the most interesting and unique concepts for a head-to-head showdown, March Madness style. Exploding head syndrome. Dragon’s Blood Extract. Collision of spacecraft with other spacecraft. And God Only Knows what else. April Olympians: Clair Blacketer provided a brief introduction to April Olympians, a month-long community activity that will focus on CDM and Themis conventions. More information and a registration link are below.
Community Updates
• As mentioned above, Clair Blacketer and Melanie Philofsky will lead a month-long community activity in April that will focus on CDM and Themis conventions. There will be five goals of this event: – Identify all currently ratified CDM and THEMIS conventions for every CDM table and field – Write clear documentation for each THEMIS convention – Establish a repository for THEMIS conventions – Update the CDM documentation to link to relevant THEMIS repository entries – Create CDM documentation related to expansion module efforts around the community
• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials on Oct. 22, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• Evanette Burrows shared an update about a new release to the ETL-Synthea package v2.0.0 that went live on Feb. 26. The package has been expanded to support current versions of Synthea (v3.1 and v3.2) and has a handful of other improvements and contributions from the community. Full release details are available here.
• Atif Adam announced an opportunity for collaboration around a new network study focusing on Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). The study intends to deepen the understanding of STEMI patients’ characteristics and identify incidence rates across multiple real-world data datasets. More details and information on how to get involved are available within the forum post.
• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Scienceat Gilead. As a RWE Data Scientist (OMOP/OHDSI), you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining healthcare data solutions using the OHDSI framework. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to advancements in health informatics and research.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.
The March 5 community call focused onthe latest vocabulary release, which was shared 29Feb2024, as well as a brief wrap-up discussion around Phenotype Phebruary 2024. The main session will be driven by leaders from our vocabulary team:
Alexander Davydov, Director, Lead of Medical Ontologies • Odysseus Data Services
Oleg Zhuk, Vocabulary Technical Lead • Odysseus Data Services
Anna Ostropolets, Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics • Janssen Research and Development
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Aniek F Markus, Peter R Rijnbeek, Jan A Kors, Edward Burn, Talita Duarte-Salles, Markus Haug, Chungsoo Kim, Raivo Kolde, Youngsoo Lee, Hae-Sim Park, Rae Woong Park, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Carlen Reyes, Jerry A Krishnan, Guy G Brusselle, and Katia MC Verhamme on the publication of Real-world treatment trajectories of adults with newly diagnosed asthma or COPD in BMJ Open Respiratory Research.
• Congratulations to the team of Yi Chai, Kenneth K. C. Man, Hao Luo, Carmen Olga Torre, Yun Kwok Wing, Joseph F. Hayes, David P. J. Osborn, Wing Chung Chang, Xiaoyu Lin, Can Yin, Esther W. Chan, Ivan C. H. Lam, Stephen Fortin, David M. Kern, Dong Yun Lee, Rae Woong Park, Jae-Won Jang, Jing Li, Sarah Seager, Wallis C. Y. Lau, and Ian C. K. Wong on the publication of Incidence of mental health diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multinational network study in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences.
• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials on Oct. 22, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• Ross Williams is a scientific researcher working in the group of Dr. Peter Rijnbeek at Erasmus MC, where he is part of the Health Data Science group. His main focus is creating tools and analysis methods to develop personalised medical risk prediction. His specific areas of interest are on the external validation of prediction models, net benefit assessment and techniques for temporal health data analysis. He co-leads both the Patient Level Prediction workgroup and the Early-Stage Researcher workgroup. Ross discusses his career journey, how observational data impacts prediction models, the opportunities for junior researchers in OHDSI, and plenty more in the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight.
• The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes links to all workgroup OKR presentations from last month, as well as updates from Phenotype Phebruary. It also includes the monthly video podcast, 11 February publications, a new Collaborator Spotlight, and more. If you don’t receive the monthly newsletter in your inbox, please subscribe here.
• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Priya Desai shared an opening for a Biomedical Informatics Data Scientist at Stanford University who will partner with researchers and clinicians to enable effective and efficient use of data and resources available via Stanford’s research clinical data repository (STARR) including the Electronic Health Records in the OMOP Common Data Model, radiology and cardiology imaging data and associated metadata, and new data types as they get integrated along with their databases and respective cohort query tools and interfaces e.g., OHDSI ATLAS.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.
• There is an opening for an Epidemiology Graduate Intern at Johnson & Johnson. Among the responsibilities for this remote position are assisting in managing epidemiologic studies and literature reviews to characterize incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and associated comorbidities and treatment patterns for lung, head, and neck cancers across interventional oncology, contributing to the development of protocols for analyzing real-world data cohorts, such as SEER Medicare, and conducting quantitative analyses using both public and private data sources. More information and an application link are available here.
Each community call during “Phenotype Phebruary” features a set of Workgroup 2024 Objectives & Key Result (OKR) announcements, as well an update from that week’s Phenotype Phebruary activities and findings. Workgroups that presented during this call were FHIR + OMOP, Health Equity, the Africa Chapter, Electronic Animal Health Records, CDM Vocabulary, Phenotype Development & Evaluation, Dentistry, Medical Imaging, Medical Devices and GIS – Geographic Information System. The Phenotype Phebruary update, led by Evan Minty and Eva-Maria Didden, reflected on findings from the first three weeks, as well as early research and critical questions around the Week 4 phenotype, pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Christine Mary Hallinan, Roger Ward, Graeme K Hart, Clair Sullivan, Nicole Pratt, Ashley Ng, Daniel Capurro, Anton Van Der Vegt, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Oliver Daly, Blanca Gallego Luxan, David Bunker and Douglas Boyle on the publication of Seamless EMR data access: Integrated governance, digital health and the OMOP-CDM in BMJ Health & Care Informatics.
• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials and workshops on Oct. 22, the main conference on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• Henrik John recently announced a new network study that he is leading with Chungsoo Kim, Jenna Reps and Egill Fridgeirsson on “Deep Learning Comparison.” The aim is to assess the value of deep learning methods over conventional methods for the development of clinical prediction models. The specific diseases under consideration are dementia in individuals over 55, lung cancer in those over 45, and bipolar disorder in patients misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder. If you would like to join this effort, please read this forum post for more information and reach out to the study leads by March 1.
• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.
• Under the leadership of Azza Shoaibi, Anna Ostropolets, Gowtham Rao and James Weaver, Phenotype Phebruary 2024 focuses on assessing consistency in phenotype definition components, phenotype representation structure, and phenotype validation methods. The month-long activity empowers OHDSI collaborators to engage with each other while advancing the science of phenotyping and gaining education and training around phenotype development and evaluation. You can check out the event homepage here.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.
• There is an opening for an Epidemiology Graduate Intern at Johnson & Johnson. Among the responsibilities for this remote position are assisting in managing epidemiologic studies and literature reviews to characterize incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and associated comorbidities and treatment patterns for lung, head, and neck cancers across interventional oncology, contributing to the development of protocols for analyzing real-world data cohorts, such as SEER Medicare, and conducting quantitative analyses using both public and private data sources. More information and an application link are available here.
• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.
• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.
Workgroup Updates (FHIR + OMOP, Health Equity, the Africa Chapter, Electronic Animal Health Records, CDM Vocabulary, Phenotype Development & Evaluation, Dentistry, Medical Imaging, Medical Devices and GIS – Geographic Information System)
Each community call during “Phenotype Phebruary” features a set of Workgroup 2024 Objectives & Key Result (OKR) announcements, as well an update from that week’s Phenotype Phebruary activities and findings. Workgroups that presented during this call were Themis, Healthcare Systems, Generative AI and Foundational Models, Oncology, Vaccine Vocabulary, Patient-Level Prediction (PLP), ATLAS, Open-Source Community, Psychiatry, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The Phenotype Phebruary update, led by Anna Ostropolets and Jamie Weaver, reflected on findings from the first two weeks, as well as early research and critical questions around the Week 3 phenotype, major depressive disorder.
• The 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. The tentative symposium format will feature tutorials and workshops on Oct. 22, the main conference on Oct. 23, and workgroup activities on Oct. 24. Registration has not opened yet.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• Henrik John recently announced a new network study that he is leading with Chungsoo Kim, Jenna Reps and Egill Fridgeirsson on “Deep Learning Comparison.” The aim is to assess the value of deep learning methods over conventional methods for the development of clinical prediction models. The specific diseases under consideration are dementia in individuals over 55, lung cancer in those over 45, and bipolar disorder in patients misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder. If you would like to join this effort, please read this forum post for more information and reach out to the study leads by March 1.
• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.
• Under the leadership of Azza Shoaibi, Anna Ostropolets, Gowtham Rao and James Weaver, Phenotype Phebruary 2024 focuses on assessing consistency in phenotype definition components, phenotype representation structure, and phenotype validation methods. The month-long activity empowers OHDSI collaborators to engage with each other while advancing the science of phenotyping and gaining education and training around phenotype development and evaluation. You can check out the event homepage here.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.
• There is an opening for an Epidemiology Graduate Intern at Johnson & Johnson. Among the responsibilities for this remote position are assisting in managing epidemiologic studies and literature reviews to characterize incidence, prevalence, risk factors, and associated comorbidities and treatment patterns for lung, head, and neck cancers across interventional oncology, contributing to the development of protocols for analyzing real-world data cohorts, such as SEER Medicare, and conducting quantitative analyses using both public and private data sources. More information and an application link are available here.
• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.
• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.
Workgroup Updates (Themis, Healthcare Systems, Generative AI and Analytics in Healthcare (GAIA), Oncology, Vaccine Vocabulary, Patient-Level Prediction, ATLAS, Open Source Community, Psychiatry, and NLP)
Each community call during “Phenotype Phebruary” features a set of Workgroup 2024 Objectives & Key Result (OKR) announcements, as well an update from that week’s Phenotype Phebruary activities and findings. Workgroups that presented during this call were Common Data Model, Network Data Quality, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Industry, Eye Care & Vision Research, and Surgery & Perioperative Medicine. The Phenotype Phebruary update focused on the findings from the Week 1 phenotype, Alzheimer’s Disease, as well as early research and critical questions around the Week 2 phenotype, non-small cell and small cell lung cancer.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Xinyuan Zhang, Yixue Feng, Fang Li, Jin Ding, Danyal Tahseen, Ezekiel Hinojosa, Yong Chen, and Cui Tao on the publication of Evaluating MedDRA-to-ICD terminology mappings in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 OHDSI Europe Symposium, which will be held June 1-3 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. There will be tutorials and workshops June 1-2 at the Erasmus University Medical Center, and the main conference will be held Monday, June 3, on the Steam Ship Rotterdam. Please visit the event homepage for more information and registration details.
• If you are interested in joining the Scientific Review Committee for the 2024 Global Symposium, you can sign up now. The first meeting for the Scientific Review Committee will be held March 7.
• Henrik John recently announced a new network study that he is leading with Chungsoo Kim, Jenna Reps and Egill Fridgeirsson on “Deep Learning Comparison.” The aim is to assess the value of deep learning methods over conventional methods for the development of clinical prediction models. The specific diseases under consideration are dementia in individuals over 55, lung cancer in those over 45, and bipolar disorder in patients misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder. If you would like to join this effort, please read this forum post for more information and reach out to the study leads by March 1.
• James Weaver, an Associate Director of Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen Research and Development, will speak during a panel session on Current Approaches for Distributed Analysis on Thursday, March 14 (1 pm ET) during a Health Data Research Network Canada event. This will be a virtual conversation; more information and a registration link are available here.
• Under the leadership of Azza Shoaibi, Anna Ostropolets, Gowtham Rao and James Weaver, Phenotype Phebruary 2024 focuses on assessing consistency in phenotype definition components, phenotype representation structure, and phenotype validation methods. The month-long activity empowers OHDSI collaborators to engage with each other while advancing the science of phenotyping and gaining education and training around phenotype development and evaluation. You can check out the event homepage here.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.
• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.
• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.
Workgroup Updates (Common Data Model, Network Data Quality, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Industry, Eye Care & Vision Research, and Surgery & Perioperative Medicine)
Each community call during “Phenotype Phebruary” features a set of Workgroup 2024 Objectives & Key Result (OKR) announcements, as well an update from that week’s Phenotype Phebruary activities and findings; the Week 1 phenotype focus was Alzheimer’s Disease. Workgroups that presented during this call were Methods Research, HADES, Perinatal and Reproductive Health, Registry, and the Steering Group.
Community Updates
• If you are interested in joining the Scientific Review Committee for the 2024 Global Symposium, you can sign up now. The first meeting for the Scientific Review Committee will be held March 7.
• Collaborators from both the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Johnson & Johnson Observational Health Data Analytics held a three-day studyathon this past weekend with a focus on women’s health initiatives, specifically endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome.
• Kerry Goetz is the Associate Director for the National Eye Institute’s Office of Data Science and Health Informatics at the US National Institutes of Health. In this capacity she is responsible for advancing data management and sharing strategies to make NEI data FAIR (Fully AI-Ready & Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Kerry co-leads the Eye Care and Vision Research Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Working Group. She discusses her career journey, evidence gaps around vision research, how OHDSI impacts her PhD journey, and more in the latest collaborator spotlight.
• The latest edition of The Journey newsletter is now available. It includes details on Phenotype Phebruary, reflections on where OHDSI can go together in 2024, the latest OHDSI videocast, and more community updates. It also includes links to 17 published studies that came out of the OHDSI community in January. If you don’t receive the monthly newsletter in your email, you can subscribe here.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Martijn Schuemie announced the release of CohortMethod 5.2.1. The most important changes are updating the Capr function calls in the vignettes (the old code was no longer working), and CohortMethod now asks if you want to delete old files when you call runCmAnalyses() using an existing folder but different analysis settings than before.
• Ger Inberg announced the release of FeatureExtraction 3.4.0. It contains mainly bugfixes and furthermore the ‘cohortId’ argument in exported functions has been deprecated, one should use ‘cohortIds’ instead.
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• Nathan Hall introduced a summer internship at Johnson & Johnson for an Epidemiology UX/Web Design Intern. This internship provides a unique opportunity to merge design principles with epidemiological research, contributing to the advancement of real-world evidence applications. In this role, you will have the opportunity to blend your passion for user experience (UX) and web design with the field of epidemiology, contributing to impactful projects that enhance our ability to derive insights from health data. More information and an application link are available here.
• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.
• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.
The third installment of Phenotype Phebruary is approaching, and the leadership team provided an overview of the initiative, its importance in research, and how this version of Phenotype Phebruary will take place in the OHDSI community. This talk also included a “Phenotype 101” session, as well as a community vote on four phenotypes to be focused on during the month. The selections were Alzheimer’s, pulmonary hypertension, major depression disorder and prostate cancer. This session was led by:
• Azza Shoaibi – Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development • Jamie Weaver – Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development • Anna Ostropolets – Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Janssen Research and Development
• Congratulations to the team of Scott L. DuVall, Craig G. Parker, Amanda R. Shields, Patrick R. Alba, Julie A. Lynch, Michael E. Matheny, and Aaron W.C. Kamauu on the publication of Toward Real-World Reproducibility: Verifying Value Sets for Clinical Research in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Martijn Schuemie, Jenna Reps, Adam Black, Frank Defalco, Lee Evans, Egill Fridgeirsson, James P. Gilbert, Chris Knoll, Martin Lavallee, Gowtham A. Rao, Peter Rijnbeek, Katy Sadowski, Anthony Sena, Joel Swerdel, Ross D. Williams, and Marc Suchard on the publication of Health-Analytics Data to Evidence Suite (HADES): Open-Source Software for Observational Research in Volume 310 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Martijn Schuemie announced the release of SelfControlledCaseSeries 5.1.1. This contains a fix of a minor bug introduced in 5.1.0.
Job Openings
• Linying Zhang shared openings for both a Postdoc and a Senior Data Analyst at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Successful candidates will work on causal machine learning and responsible AI for reliable real-world evidence generation. Interested applicants should send a CV and cover letter to linyingz@wustl.edu.
• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.
• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.
The Jan. 23 community call looked at the recent UK Study-A-Thon, held last November at Saint Hilda’s College. The event focused on the use of fluoroquinolones across geographies and over time, as well as on the epidemiology and characterization of rectal prolapse and rectopexy. At the end of an intense week, the team generated three draft manuscripts almost ready for submission, and at least four conference abstracts were in the making.
• Registration is open for the 2024 Oxford Summer School: Real world evidence using the OMOP Common Data Model, which will be held June 17-21, 2024 at the University of Oxford. The Real World Evidence Summer School will provide participants with the tools and concepts necessary to plan and execute Real World Evidence studies, with a focus on the use of the OMOP common data model. Learn more about the program here.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CTSA is hiring a Research Informatics Specialist. This is a remote position (US only, with mostly East Coast hours). This person will join a skilled and highly collaborative team of data analysts, software developers, and data scientists within our CTSA. The core purpose of this position is to support the All of Us Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data project. We are looking for folks with SQL and health care and/or claims data experience, especially OMOP.
• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.
0:00 – Daniel Prieto-Alhambra – Professor of Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology, University of Oxford (Introduction) 1:28 – Katherine Donegan – Head of Epidemiology, MHRA (MHRA and the use of RWE) 13:40 – Annika Jodicke – Senior Researcher in Pharmacoepidemiology, University of Oxford (Use of systemic fluoroquinolones in primary care and hospital settings in the UK: a drug utilisation study) 28:52 – Jennifer Lane – NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Barts Bone and Joint Health, Queen Mary University of London (Rectopexy & the search for devices)
The Jan. 16 community call featured multiple unrecorded breakout session meant to stimulate future collaboration opportunities throughout the community. The video below highlights the updates shared at the beginning of the call, including a brief presentation on a recent community publication, Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Qiong Wu, Jiayi Tong, Bingyu Zhang, Dazheng Zhang, Jiajie Chen, Yuqing Lei, Yiwen Lu, Yudong Wang, Lu Li, Yishan Shen, Jie Xu, L. Charles Bailey, Jiang Bian, Dimitri A. Christakis, Megan L. Fitzgerald, Kathryn Hirabayashi, Ravi Jhaveri, Alka Khaitan, Tianchen Lyu, Suchitra Rao, Hanieh Razzaghi, Hayden T. Schwenk, Fei Wang, Margot I. Gage Witvliet, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Jeffrey S. Morris, Christopher B. Forrest, and Yong Chen on the publication of Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents in Annals of Internal Medicine.
• Anna Ostropolets will lead the next edition of the CBER Best Seminar Seminar series, which will be held Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 11 am ET. Anna will lead a session entitled “KEEPER: Standardized structured data from electronic health records as an alternative to chart review for case adjudication and phenotype evaluation” which will be virtual and available to anybody. More information and the registration link are available here.
• Chungsoo Kim is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Ajou University College of Medicine. Since joining OHDSI in 2019, he has participated in and led several research projects at OHDSI. He currently participates in OHDSI working groups, including PatientLevelPrediction and the APAC group. He also served as a tutorial instructor for the 2019 OHDSI Korea International Symposium. Chungsoo discusses his research focuses, his involvement in the OHDSI community, the growth of OHDSI around the Asia-Pacific region, and plenty more in the latest Collaborator Spotlight.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.
Happy New Year! Patrick Ryan led the first community call of the year for a discussion on what OHDSI can achieve together in 2024. You can watch the recording or check out the slides below.
• Congratulations to the team of Qiong Wu, Jiayi Tong, Bingyu Zhang, Dazheng Zhang, Jiajie Chen, Yuqing Lei, Yiwen Lu, Yudong Wang, Lu Li, Yishan Shen, Jie Xu, L. Charles Bailey, Jiang Bian, Dimitri A. Christakis, Megan L. Fitzgerald, Kathryn Hirabayashi, Ravi Jhaveri, Alka Khaitan, Tianchen Lyu, Suchitra Rao, Hanieh Razzaghi, Hayden T. Schwenk, Fei Wang, Margot I. Gage Witvliet, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Jeffrey S. Morris, Christopher B. Forrest, and Yong Chen on the publication of Real-World Effectiveness of BNT162b2 Against Infection and Severe Diseases in Children and Adolescents in Annals of Internal Medicine.
• Chungsoo Kim is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Ajou University College of Medicine. Since joining OHDSI in 2019, he has participated in and led several research projects at OHDSI. He currently participates in OHDSI working groups, including PatientLevelPrediction and the APAC group. He also served as a tutorial instructor for the 2019 OHDSI Korea International Symposium. Chungsoo discusses his research focuses, his involvement in the OHDSI community, the growth of OHDSI around the Asia-Pacific region, and plenty more in the latest Collaborator Spotlight.
• Research from the 2023 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase can be viewed on the Global Symposium Showcase page. Research 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:
• Martiijn Schuemie announced the releases of CohortMethod 5.2.0 and EmpiricalCalibration 3.1.2. The CohortMethod release focuses on generalizability, by comparing the population after all adjustments (e.g. PS matching) to the population before all adjustments, and report any characteristics that have changed. The choice of population to consider for generalizability is now driven by your analysis choices. For example, if you use PS matching, (implying ATT), generalizability will be computed for the target (treated) population.
• Egill Fridgeirsson announced the release of DeepPatientLevelPrediction 2.0.3. This bugfix release only includes one change which was necessary because one of my dependencies introduced a breaking change (polars) which broke some functionality in the package.
• Joel Swerdel announced the release of PheValuator 2.2.11. This adds the capability to include multiple visits per subject in the evaluation cohort.
Job Openings
• There is an opening for a Data Steward position at the EBMT. Among the responsibilities is the design, implementation and testing of new data collection processes including data collection forms (DCFs) development, as well as the mapping of new items from DCFs to the OMOP CDM.