WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join us Tuesday, Feb. 11 (11 am ET) for our second session of Workgroup OKR announcements and Phenotype Phebruary updates. Week 2 of Phenotype Phebruary is dedicated to developing concept sets and constructing logical frameworks for the phenotypes that will be used in the guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented last month, and our leads will discuss next steps in this process. We also will hear about the 2025 objectives and key results (OKRs) from the following workgroups: Common Data Model, Evidence Network, Patient-Level Prediction (PLP), Early-Stage Researchers, Women of OHDSI, ATLAS, and Methods Research.
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
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OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
• Congratulations to the team of Justin Quon, Christopher Long, William Halfpenny, Amy Chuang, Cindy Cai, Sally Baxter, Vamsi Daketi, Amanda Schmitz, Neil Bahroos, Benjamin Xu, and Brian Toy on the recent publication of Implementing a Common Data Model in Ophthalmology: Mapping Structured Electronic Health Record Ophthalmic Examination Data to Standard Vocabularies in Ophthalmology Science.
• Congratulations to the team of Aurora Quaye, John DiPalazzo, Kristin Kostka, Janelle Richard, Blaire Beers-Mulroy, Meredith Peck, Robert Krulee, and Yi Zhang on the publication of Identifying factors associated with persistent opioid use after total joint arthroplasty: a retrospective review in Pain Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Kevin Ouazzani, Xavier Ansolabehere, Florence Journeau, Alexandre Vidal, Nicolas Jaubourg, Maxime Doublet, Raphael Thollot, Arnaud Fabre, and Nicolas Glatt on the recent publication of Project Victoria: A pragmatic data model to automate RWE generation from the national French claims database in the Health Informatics Journal.
OHDSI UPDATES
• Fourteen OHDSI collaborators provided presentations about guideline-driven evidence opportunities for community network studies. You can see those talks here, and share what studies you would like to join.
• The goal of the OHDSI Rare Disease Working Group is to advance the understanding and treatment of rare diseases by leveraging real-world data, uniting multidisciplinary experts, and developing innovative methodologies to improve patient outcomes and inform clinical decision-making. The workgroup has posted a brief interest survey to help shape a productive and collaborative community. Please fill out this survey by Tuesday, Feb. 18.
• The latest OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes information about the 14 guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented in January, the monthly podcast, community updates, the latest collaborator spotlight, recent publications and presentations, and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter each month, you can subscribe here.
• Dr. Cynthia Sung is an Adjunct Associate Professor for the Centre of Regulatory Excellence at Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, teaching and developing curricula for the Graduate Certificate in Health Products Regulation. She is an active member of the OHDSI Community, primarily as co-lead for the OHDSI Africa Chapter and also participating in working groups for Clinical Trials and Pregnancy and Reproductive Health. She was honored with the 2023 Titan Award for Community Collaboration. In the latest collaborator spotlight, Cynthia discusses a career journey that has taken her around the world, the need for FAIR data in less-represented populations, exciting developments within Africa, and more.
Save The Dates
• The 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium will return to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., on Oct. 7-9, 2025. More details will be shared when available.
• The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.
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 — Evaluating the impact of different vocabulary versions on cohort definitions and CDM (Dmitry Dymshyts)
Tuesday — The state of federated health data networks globally in 2024 (Michael Briganti)
Wednesday — Comparison of Deep Learning and Conventional Strategies for Disease Onset Prediction: An OHDSI Network Study (Henrik John)
Thursday — Prediction of Severe Respiratory Infections in Patients with Diabetes (Nguyen Thi Kim Hien)
Friday — Visualising OMOP concept relationships with omopcept (Andy South)
Job Openings
• Monica Gerber shared a job opening for an Analytics Engineer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. As an Analytics Engineer, you will collaborate with our data science team to design, build, and maintain multi-modal data models that integrate various data sources. Your work will support AI-driven research and translational data science use cases, helping to advance our scientific and technological goals. More information and an application link are available here.
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