WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Happy New Year! We will kick off 2025 community calls this coming Tuesday, January 7 (11 am ET), with a discussion about where our community can go together over the next 12 months.
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 Shuxin Zhang, Ronald Cornet and Nirupama Benis on the recent publication of Cross-Standard Health Data Harmonization using Semantics of Data Elements in Scientific Data.
• Congratulations to the team of Tobias Freyberg Justesen, Adile Orhan, Andreas Weinberger Rosen, Mikail Gögenur, and Ismail Gögenur on the recent publication of Mismatch Repair Status and Surgical Outcomes in Localized Colorectal Cancer: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Annals of Surgery Open.
• Congratulations to the team of Rowdy de Groot, Frank van der Graaff, Daniël van der Doelen, Michiel Luijten, Ronald De Meyer, Hekmat Alrouh, Hedy van Oers, Jacintha Tieskens, Josjan Zijlmans, Meike Bartels, Arne Popma, Nicolette de Keizer, Ronald Cornet, and Tinca Polderman on the recent publication of Implementing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) Principles in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research: Mixed Methods Approach in JMIR Mental Health.
• 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 and 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 & Sciences.
• Congratulations to the team of Yu Jeong Lee, Jinmi Kim, Dong Han Yu, Nam Kyung Je and Harin Rhee on the recent publication of Long-term use of proton pump inhibitors was associated with rapid progression to end stage kidney disease in a Korean nationwide study in Scientific Reports.
• Congratulations to the team of Harry-Anton Talvik, Marek Oja, Sirli Tamm, Kerli Mooses, Dage Särg, Marcus Lõo, Õie Renata Siimon, Hendrik Šuvalov, Raivo Kolde, Jaak Vilo, Sulev Reisberg, and Sven Laur on the recent publication of Repeatable process for extracting health data from HL7 CDA documents in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Anna O. Basile, Anurag Verma, Leigh Anne Tang, Marina Serper, Andrew Scanga, Ava Farrell, Brittney Destin, Rotonya M. Carr, Anuli Anyanwu-Ofili, Gunaretnam Rajagopal, Abraham Krikhely, Marc Bessler, Muredach P. Reilly, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, and Julia Wattacheril on the recent publication of Rapid identification and phenotyping of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease patients using a machine-based approach in diverse healthcare systems in Clinical and Translational Science.
• Congratulations to the team of Rowdy de Groot, Savannah Glaser, Alexandra Kogan, Stephanie Medlock, Anna Alloni, Matteo Gabetta, Szymon Wilk, Nicolette de Keizer, and Ronald Cornet on the recent publication of ATC-to-RxNorm mappings – A comparison between OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies and UMLS Metathesaurus in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
• Save The Date! 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 next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be Jan. 15, 2025 at 11 am ET. We are happy to welcome Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will provide a talk on “Emulation of Target Trial on Vaccinations During Pregnancy.” More information and the meeting link are available on the CBER BEST series homepage.
• The latest edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available. The latest edition reflects back on 2024, highlights 10 recent published studies, and includes community updates, the latest collaborator spotlight, OHDSI presentations, and more.
• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. Videos of all the tutorials have also been posted.
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 — Institutionalizing data interoperability and the application of common data models in a health data and research center: CIDACS’ experience in Brazil (Valentina Martufi)
Tuesday — Characterizing Phenotype Descriptions in All of Us Publications (Emily Clark)
Wednesday — Fine-Tuning Foundational AI Models to Code Diagnoses from Veterinary Health Records (Mayla R. Boguslav)
Thursday — Brain-penetrant calcium channel blockers for psychiatric use: revisiting the evidence for benefit (David Kern)
Friday — CohortOperations: A Modular Web Tool for Enhanced Cohort Analysis on the OMOP-CDM (Javier Gracia-Tabuenca)
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