WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join us Tuesday, Feb. 25 (11 am ET) for our final session of Workgroup OKR announcements and Phenotype Phebruary updates. Week 4 of Phenotype Phebruary is dedicated to Iterating on cohort definitions & evaluating with additional OHDSI tools for the phenotypes that will be used in the guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented last month. We also will hear about the 2025 objectives and key results (OKRs) from the following workgroups: Africa Chapter, CDM Survey, Clinical Trials, GIS, Health Equity, Medical Devices, Natural Language Processing, Oncology, Rare Disease, Surgery and Perioperative Medicine, and Themis.
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.
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OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Jiyong An, Jiyun Kim, Leonard Sunwoo, Hyunyoung Baek, Sooyoung Yoo & Seunggeun Lee on the recent publication of De-identification of clinical notes with pseudo-labeling using regular expression rules and pre-trained BERT in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
• Congratulations to the team of Eun-Gee Park, Min Jung Kim, Jinseo Kim, Kichul Shin, and Borim Ryu on the publication of Utility of Treatment Pattern Analysis Using a Common Data Model: A Scoping Review in Healthcare Informatics Research.
• Congratulations to the team of Chen Yanover, Ramit Magen-Rimon, Erica A. Voss, Joel Swerdel, Anna Sheahan, Nathan Hall, Jimyung Park, Rae Woong Park, Kwang Jae Lee, Sung Jae Shin, Seung In Seo, Kyung-Joo Lee, Thomas Falconer, Leonard Haas, Paul Nagy, Mary Grace Bowring, Michael Cook, Steven Miller, Tal El-Hay, Maytal Bivas-Benita, Pinchas Akiva, Yehuda Chowers & Roni Weisshof on the recent publication of Characteristics and Outcomes of Over a Million Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Seven Countries: Multinational Cohort Study and Open Data Resource in Digestive Diseases and Sciences.
• Congratulations to the team of Cindy X. Cai Michelle Hribar, Sally Baxter, Kerry Goetz, Swarup S. Swaminathan, Alexis Flowers, Eric N. Brown, Brian Toy, Benjamin Xu, John Chen, Aiyin Chen, Sophia Wang, Cecilia Lee, Theodore Leng, Joshua R. Ehrlich, Andrew Barkmeier, Karen R. Armbrust, Michael V. Boland, David Dorr, Danielle Boyce, Thamir Alshammari, Joel Swerdel, Marc A. Suchard, Martijn Schuemie, Fan Bu, Anthony G. Sena, George Hripcsak, Akihiko Nishimura, Paul Nagy, Thomas Falconer, Scott L. DuVall, Michael Matheny, Benjamin Viernes, William O’Brien, Linying Zhang, Benjamin Martin, Erik Westlund, Nestoras Mathioudakis, Ruochong Fan, Adam Wilcox, Albert Lai, Jacqueline C. Stocking, Sahar Takkouche, Lok Hin Lee, Yangyiran Xie, Izabelle Humes, David B. McCoy, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Raymond G. Areaux Jr, William Rojas-Carabali, James Brash, David A. Lee, Nicole G. Weiskopf, Louise Mawn, Rupesh Agrawal, Hannah Morgan-Cooper, Priya Desai, and Patrick B. Ryan on the recent publication of Semaglutide and Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in JAMA Ophthalmology.
• Congratulations to the team of ChulHyoung Park, So Hee Lee, Da Yun Lee, Seoyoon Choi, Seng Chan You, Ja Young Jeon, Sang Jun Park, and Rae Woong Park on the publication of Analysis of Retinal Thickness in Patients With Chronic Diseases Using Standardized Optical Coherence Tomography Data: Database Study Based on the Radiology Common Data Model in JMIR Medical Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
• Asieh Golozar announced that the iCAN mNSCLC Studyathon 2025 will be held March 25-28 I Helsinki, Finlad, and the focus is “Exploring the Real-World Treatment Landscape of mNSCLC.” The event will focus on characterizing real-world treatment patterns of metastatic NSCLC, with a focus on the adoption and impact of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) across different regions. Reach out to Asieh Golozar (golozar@ohdsi.org) for more information or if you wish to contribute.
• Please consider joining the Scientific Review Committee for the 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium, which will be held Oct. 7-9. Please fill out this form by March 3 if you are interested or want to learn 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 — Standardizing Rare Disease Patient Registry data to the OMOP-CDM (Parag Shiralkar)
Tuesday — Who Wants To Be A 2Billionaire? – A methodology for migrating from STCM to C/CR (Roger Carlson)
Wednesday — Leveraging the active comparator new user design to identify potential unknown benefits of canagliflozin (Justin Bohn)
Thursday — Does the SARS-CoV-2 Infection Increase the Onset of New Mental Health Disorder? Findings from Difference-in-Differences Analyses Using an EHR-Based Cohort from the RECOVER Program (Yiwen Lu)
Friday — dbt for OMOP Phase I: dbt-synthea (Katy Sadowski)
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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