Nov. 28, 2023
The Nov. 28 community call provided an update about the OHDSI Coordinating Center at the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics, its role in guiding the community, and to learn about how the community can support OHDSI’s mission as we move into 2024. George Hripcsak, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, leads this session, which includes both a presentation and discussion at the end.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Fan Bu, Martijn Schuemie, Akihiko Nishimura, Louisa Smith, Kristin Kostka, Thomas Falconer, Jody-Ann McLeggon, Patrick Ryan, George Hripcsak, and Marc Suchard on the publication of Bayesian safety surveillance with adaptive bias correction in Statistics in Medicine.
• The next edition of the Early-Stage Researchers Career Speaker Series will be held Monday, Dec. 11, at 11 am ET. Fan Bu, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA, will be the featured speaker. You can join the call here.
• Oleg Zhuk, a member of the OHDSI Vocabulary team, recently authored a forum post requesting community members to calculate the frequency of LOINC codes in your data. Please check out the post to learn why this is important, and how you can share your information.
• Andrew Williams posted a document that describes how OHDSI workgroups form, the kinds of things they do, and the categories of workgroups that the OHDSI community is organized into. It is meant to help community members understand and how to use OHDSI workgroups to get things done. It also provides some tips on running workgroups. There is a request for comments until Jan. 1, 2024. To read more and access the document, please visit the forum post.
• Davera Gabriel has requested community input on the OMOP + FHIR Implementation Guide prior to Dec. 6. You can access the guide here.
• The 2023 Global Symposium home page has posted videos and slides for all of the Friday talks, as well as the video of the “Welcome to OHDSI” tutorial. Please check out the homepage for all materials related to OHDSI2023.
• The 2023 version of the Our Journey annual report was shared at the Global Symposium, but there is a digital version that you can access on the OHDSI website.
• 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 — “OMOP Anywhere”: Daily Updates from EHR Data Leveraging Epic’s Native Tools (Mujeeb Basit)
Tuesday — Open-Source Tools and Terminology to Increase Representativeness in OHDSI Data (Andrew Kanter)
Wednesday – Developing phenotypes across pregnant persons and infants: Utilizing pregnancy episode identification and mother-infant linkage algorithms to define outcomes (Rupa Makadia)
Thursday – Refactoring OHDSI cohort queries for performance: lessons from VA study participation (Benjamin Viernes)
Friday – Characteristics Associated with Persistent Opioid Use Following Total Joint Arthroplasty (Aurora Quaye)
Job Openings
• Aedin Culhane announced the opening of two positions for a Post Doctoral Researcher (Level 1 or 2) in Cancer Digital Health Real World Evidence at the University of Limerick. The application deadline is Dec. 15, 2023. Further description and an application link are available here.
• Cynthia Yang shared two openings at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one for a Distinguished Scientist, Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models, and one for a Deputy Director, Quantitative Sciences.
• Stephanie Leonard shared an opening at Stanford University for a postdoctoral scholar in perinatal pharmacoepidemiology. The scholar will work closely with faculty members with expertise in epidemiology, medical informatics, and clinical medicine on NIH-funded research projects on the comparative safety and effectiveness of medications in pregnancy and related research topics. Our projects employ advanced analytical methods in large databases, including OHDSI network studies using claims data and electronic health record data in the OMOP CDM. Current topical focus areas include mental health, behavioral health and cardiovascular health of people who are pregnant or postpartum. Further details are available here. Please send any questions to Dr. Leonard at stephanie.leonard@stanford.edu. Details on postdoc resources at Stanford: https://postdocs.stanford.edu/.
• Ajit Londhe recently posted that Boehringer Ingelheim is hiring for two positions: (1) Director, Real World Data & Analytics – Data Domain Owner (this position will lead acquisition strategy for real-world data sources for possible in-license/ purchase and additional analytical tools for in-house analytic needs across the organization … responsible for oversight of operational governance tasks & real-world data life cycle governance … US-based, remote location); and (2) Real World Evidence Data Engineer (IT position supporting RWE teams’ technology needs, including OHDSI stack support … based in Spain only).
• Yuan Lu, Assistant Professor at Yale University, announced an opening for a Postdoctoral Associate/Data Analyst at the Yale University School of Medicine. This person will work on the LEGEND Hypertension Project. More information, including job description, key responsibilities and qualifications, are available here. If interested, please reach out to Dr. Lu at y.lu@yale.edu.
Slides
Video Presentation
The OHDSI Coordinating Center (George Hripcsak)
