Mar. 12, 2024
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
If you would like to participate in this event, please fill out this form.
• 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:
Monday — Bladder cancer – a quality benchmark utilizing FHIR and OMOP (Andries Clinckaert)
Tuesday — Using MONAI Pre-Trained Models for Colorectal Tissue Type Phenotyping: A Feasibility Study to Integrate Deep Learning Model Results using the Medical Extension OMOP CDM (Shijia Zhang)
Wednesday — A tool for empirically identifying and reviewing candidate comparators for Pharmacoepidemiological studies (Justin Bohn)
Thursday — The necessity of validity diagnostics when drawing causal inferences from observational data (James Weaver)
Friday — Identification of HIV positive individuals across multiple datasets (Craig Mayer)
Job Openings
• Alex Asiimwe shared an opening for a Director, RWE – Data Science at 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.
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April Olympians | Community Updates
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March Madness
April Olympians