WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Welcome to Phenotype Phebruary 2025! Now in its fourth year, Phenotype Phebruary will focus on building upon the guideline-driven evidence opportunities presented last month, and the first week will focus on creating clinical descriptions for cohorts that may be used in these studies. Please join us Tuesday, Feb. 4 (11 am ET) for our next community call as we begin this activity, and we also will hear about the 2025 objectives and key results (OKRs) from the following workgroups: the Health Systems Interest Group, Vocabulary, Rehabilitation, Pregnancy and Reproductive Health, and the Steering Group.
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 Gyubeom Hwang, So Hee Lee, Dong Yun Lee, ChulHyoung Park, Hyun Woong Roh, Sang Joon Son, and Rae Woong Park on the recent publication of Age-related eye diseases and subsequent risk of mental disorders in older adults: A real-world multicenter study in the Journal of Affective Disorders.
• Congratulations to the team of Noah Jones, Ming-Chieh Shih, Elizabeth Healey, Chen Wen Zhai, Sonali Advani, Aaron Smith-McLallen, David Sontag, and Sanjat Kanjilal on the publication of Use of Machine Learning to Assess the Management of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in JAMA Network Open.
• Congratulations to the team of Seok Jun Park, Seungwon Yang, Suhyun Lee, Sung Hwan Joo, Taemin Park, Dong Hyun Kim, Hyeonji Kim, Soyun Park, Jung-Tae Kim, Won Gun Kwack, Sung Wook Kang, Yun-Kyoung Song, Jae Myung Cha, Sang Youl Rhee, and Eun Kyoung Chung on the recent publication of Machine-Learning Parsimonious Prediction Model for Diagnostic Screening of Severe Hematological Adverse Events in Cancer Patients Treated with PD-1/PD-L1 Inhibitors: Retrospective Observational Study by Using the Common Data Model in Diagnostics.
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.
• Each year, workgroup representatives join a February community call to present the mission, objectives and key results for their respective groups. These 2-4 minute presentations are recorded and posted on the Workgroups homepage on OHDSI.org. Please choose a date to sign up for one of the available February dates (4, 11); once a date has at least 10 workgroups, it will be closed.
• 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 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.
• The first OHDSI Latin-America (LATAM) Symposium will be held July 31-August 1 in Salvador, Brazil. More information will be shared when available.
Dates for the Global Symposium will be announced soon!
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 — SMEs optimization with high precision data ingestion of CAPriCORN CDM onto OMOP at AllianceChicago (Andrew Hamilton)
Tuesday — Automating data standardization through ad hoc SNOMED modeling with LLM: proof of concept (Eduard Korchmar)
Wednesday — Is the Observed Protection of COVID-19 Vaccines Against Infection within 14 days Real or an Artifact? A Negative Control Outcomes-Based Investigation Using Real-World Data (Bingyu Zhang)
Thursday — Risk of Dysmetabolic Syndrome in Post-Acute COVID-19 Among Children and Adolescents: An EHR Cohort Study from the RECOVER Initiative (Yuqing Lei)
Friday — Advancing the OHDSI Analysis Viewer: Enhanced Performance, Integration, and User Experience (Nathan Hall)
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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