Hello @sampatnoe and welcome to OHDSI!
We need to get back to this discussion and decide on the conventions for how we will store race and ethnicity data in the OMOP CDM. At this time, we will continue to leave race and ethnicity as two separate fields in the person table. The open questions are listed above by myself, @aostropolets, @PriyaDesai, @QI_omop, @guyt and others on different threads spread throughout the forums, GitHub and MS Teams. We always are happy to hear about use cases from CDM users. Your input is welcome! I’ll announce on the forums when we get it on the Themis WG agenda.