WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join our March 18 community call (11 am ET) for a data-focused session, which will include an update on the OHDSI Evidence Network and its role in our guideline-driven evidence studies, as well as an overview of the Data Diagnostics tool. Evidence Network leads Clair Blacketer and Paul Nagy will lead this discussion.
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 UPDATES
• The Dutch and Oxford ISPE Student Chapters are hosting a webinar on various career paths in pharmacoepidemiology this Wednesday, March 19th, 3-4 pm CET (2-3 pm GMT). This webinar will include four speakers who will discuss their careers and provide tips on getting started: Daniala Weir, assistant professor at Utrecht University, Romin Pajouheshnia, Research Epidemiologist at RTI-Health Solutions, Anna Menacher, Medical innovation scientist at Novo Nordisk, and Andrei Barbulescu, Pharmacoepidemiologist and data analyst at EMA. This webinar is open to all students (and former students) interested in European careers in pharmacoepidemiology. Use this link to sign up! LinkedIn
• Christian Reich and Sarah Seager are leading an effort to publish a second edition of the Book of OHDSI, which will include updates to previous text and new paragraphs/chapters. This work is taking place within the Education workgroup; if you would like to join this effort, please sign up here.
• The R/Medicine virtual conference provides a forum for sharing R based tools and approaches used to analyze and gain insights from health data. The call for proposals (talks, demos and workshops) is open through Friday, April 11.
• Leaders from over 30+ workgroups presented opportunities for all community members to find a home for their talents and passions. Newcomers and veterans can both make meaningful contributions to our community by collaborating in workgroups. Throughout February, workgroup representatives shared the mission, recent achievements and 2025 goals. You can find those presentations and see if there is a home for you on our workgroups homepage.
• Asieh Golozar announced that the iCAN mNSCLC Studyathon 2025 will be held March 25-28 I Helsinki, Finland, 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.
• Hongfang Liu will lead a talk on ‘A Translational Science Framework in Advancing Healthcare AI’ on March 27 at 11 am ET as part of The Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine seminar series. Please contact Marty Alvarez at malvarez2@tuftsmedicalcenter.org for calendar invite or questions.
Save The Dates
• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.
• Registration is open for the Europe Symposium, which will be held July 5-7 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. More information is available later in this newsletter.
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 — Towards Reproducible Imaging Research: Implementation of DICOM to OMOP CDM (Woo Yeon Park)
Tuesday — Using Vaccine Ontology to Analyze and Integrate Vaccine Terms in N3C Dataset (Yuanyi Pan)
Wednesday — Building OHDSI with Privacy Computing in Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University (Changran Wang)
Thursday — Collaborative Population-adjusted Indirect Comparison with Multiple Single-arm Data Sources (Yuru Zhu)
Friday — Visual Acuity: A Case Study for a Complex Clinical Concept (Michelle Hribar)
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