Nov. 19, 2024
The Nov. 19 community call featured a session focused on the Evidence Network in Action: the OHDSI Semaglutide Study. The Eye Care & Vision Research workgroup initiated a Semaglutide and NAION study following a JAMA Ophthalmology publication in early July. We heard from several leaders in the community to show the power of the OHDSI Evidence Network for global research:
- Cindy Cai (Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital) Topic: Semaglutide and NAION: An OHDSI Network Study
- Paul Nagy (Program Director for Graduate Training in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Johns Hopkins University) Topic: Evidence Network
- Linying Zhang (Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Washington University) Topic: Methods
- Anthony Sena (Director, Observational Health Data Analytics, Johnson & Johnson) Topic: Strategus
- Ben Martin (Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University) Topic: Using the Results Schema
- Erik Westlund (Assistant Scientist, Johns Hopkins University) Topic: Using the Results Schema
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Francesco Dernie, George Corby, Abigail Robinson, James Bezer, Nuria Mercade-Besora, Romain Griffier, Guillaume Verdy, Angela Leis, Juan Manuel Ramirez-Anguita, Miguel A. Mayer, James T. Brash, Sarah Seager, Rowan Parry, Annika Jodicke, Talita Duarte-Salles, Peter R. Rijnbeek, Katia Verhamme, Alexandra Pacurariu, Daniel Morales, Luis Pinheiro, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, and Albert Prats-Uribe on the publication of Standardised and Reproducible Phenotyping Using Distributed Analytics and Tools in the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU) in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
• Congratulations to the team of Aaron S Eisman, Elizabeth S Chen, Wen-Chih Wu, Karen M Crowley, Dilum P Aluthge, Katherine Brown, and Indra Neil Sarkar on the publication of Learning health system linchpins: information exchange and a common data model in JAMIA.
• Congratulations to the team of Junqing Xie, Kim López-Güell, Daniel Dedman, Talita Duarte-Salles, Raivo Kolde, Raúl López-Blasco, Álvaro Martínez, Gregoire Mercier, Alicia Abellan, Johnmary T. Arinze, Zara Cuccu, Antonella Delmestri, Dominique Delseny, Sara Khalid, Chungsoo Kim, Ji-woo Kim, Kristin Kostka, Cora Loste, Lourdes Mateu, Miguel A. Mayer, Jaime Meléndez-Cardiel, Núria Mercadé-Besora, Mees Mosseveld, Akihito Nishimura, Hedvig M.E. Nordeng, Jessie O. Oyinlola, Laura Pérez-Crespo, Marta Pineda-Moncusí, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Nhung T.H. Trinh, Anneli Uusküla, Bernardo Valdivieso, Theresa Burkard, Edward Burn, Martí Català, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Roger Paredes, and Annika M. Jödicke on the publication of Incidence of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms across healthcare settings in seven countries: an international retrospective cohort study using routinely-collected data in eClinical Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Eizen Kimura, Yukinobu Kawakami, Shingo Inoue, and Ai Okajima on the publication of Mapping Drug Terms via Integration of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation Algorithm with a Large Language Model in Healthcare Informatics Research
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 11 am ET. Jennifer Clark Nelson, Director of Biostatistics & Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute will present on “Statistical methods for improving post-licensure vaccine safety surveillance.” The meeting link and past presentations can be found on the seminar series homepage.
• The latest edition of “Our Journey: Where the OHDSI Community Has Been, and Where We Are Going” was distributed at the Global Symposium, and the online version is available on the OHDSI website.
• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. The tutorials will be posted to the homepage when available.
• 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 open.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global 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 — FHIR to OMOP Cookbook – Mapping mCODE FHIR Resources for Observational Research (Qi Yang)
Tuesday — Enabling Clinical Trial Feasibility and Patient Finding Through the Use of the OMOP CDM (Mui Van Zandt)
Wednesday — Utility of Large Language Models for Concept Set Curation (Adit Anand)
Thursday — Electronic Frailty index and hazard of with MACE event in patients with Type 2 diabetes melitus (Daeun Hyeon)
Friday — Comparing IRB Review of OHDSI Network Studies: Sharing Experience and Guidance (Ben Martin)
Job Openings
• Cynthia Sung announced a new opening for a Senior Program Officer, Public Health Surveillance, Data Integration, and Artificial Intelligence at the Gates Foundation. This role will focus on public health informatics and AI for the Foundation’s cross-cutting public health surveillance initiative and will also support other groups in the Pneumonia & Pandemic Preparedness Team that are considering investments in public health informatics and AI.
Slides
Evidence Network in Action: The Semaglutide Study | Community Updates
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