WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join us for our Aug. 20 community call (11 am ET), when we hold our final session on Building Up the OHDSI Evidence Network. We will answer questions that have been shared throughout the process, hear about early success stories and more.
Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
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.
• Congratulations to the team of Mathilde Fruchart, Paul Quindroit, Chloé Jacquemont, Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Matthieu Calafiore, and Antoine Lamer on the publication of Transforming Primary Care Data Into the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model: Development and Usability Study in JMIR Medical Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Nicola Barclay, Edward Burn, Antonella Delmestri, Talita Duarte-Salles, Asieh Golozar, Wai Yi Man, Eng Hooi Tan, Ilona Tietzova, OPTIMA Consortium, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra and Danielle Newby on the publication of Trends in incidence, prevalence, and survival of breast cancer in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2021 in Scientific Reports.
• Congratulations to the team of Nhung TH Trinh, Jared Houghtaling, Fabian Bernal, Saeed Hayati, Luigi Maglanoc, Angela Lupattelli, Lars Halvorsen, and Hedvig Nordeng on the publication of Harmonizing Norwegian registries onto OMOP common data model: Mapping challenges and opportunities for pregnancy and COVID-19 research in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
• 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.
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 Clinical Trial Data to the OMOP CDM (Cynthia Sung)
Tuesday — OMOP Harmonization and Integration of Surgical Procedure Database into EHDEN with BC Platforms’ Solutions (Mai Nguyen)
Wednesday — Creating clinically meaningful cancer groups from SNOMED for care systems and care quality research: a head and neck case study (Hayley Fenton)
Thursday — Integrating NLP-derived results in the OMOP CDM (Gabriel Maeztu)
Friday — Standardizing European sarcoma registry data to the OMOP Common Data Model: the retroperitoneal sarcoma use case (Peter Prinsen)
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.
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.
Book Your Hotel Sleeping room OHDSI Symposium (hyatt.com)
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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 are 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.
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