July 23, 2024
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.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Tom Seinen, Jan Kors, Erik van Mulligen, and Peter Rijnbeek on the publication of Annotation-preserving machine translation of English corpora to validate Dutch clinical concept extraction tools in JAMIA.
• The agenda for the main conference day of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium is now available. The August 13 community call will focus on both the main conference day and a look at the individual tutorials.
• The Eye Care & Vision Research workgroup is leading a Semaglutide NAION network study based on last week’s OHDSI Evidence Network presentation. Cindy Cai and Michelle Hribar discussed this study and the value of network collaboration; please use this link to join the Eye Care & Vision Workgroup.
• The fifth European OHDSI Symposium, titled “Scaling up Reliable Evidence Across Europe,” was held June 1-3 and brought together data partners, regulators, and researchers to collaborate and share results and ideas about the use of the OMOP-CDM in Europe. All materials from the session, including talks focused on the Selection of European Initiatives Using the OMOP CDM and Large Scale Evidence Generation in EHDEN and DARWIN EU®, as well as the collaborator showcase, can be found all on the event homepage.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Europe Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — External Validation of the Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) Clinical Prediction Model in Observational Health Care Databases (Alexander Saelmans)
Tuesday — Conversion of the Papageorgiou General Hospital EHR to the OMOP Common Data Model (Papapostolou Grigoris)
Wednesday — Automated OMOP-CDM pipeline for the new EBMT Registry (Shirah Cashriel)
Thursday — Incorporating Temporal Information from EHR Data in Clinical Prediction Modelling (Estelle Lampel)
Friday — Defining international approaches for the detection of emergent metastasis and the classification of location of metastasis from hospital EHR (Stelios Theophanous)
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
• 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.
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Building The OHDSI Evidence Network | Community Updates
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