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Weekly OHDSI Digest- 06Sept2021

WEEKLY MEETINGS

Please join us Tuesday, Sept. 7 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI Community Call, which will be focus on final preparations and information about the upcoming OHDSI Symposium (Sept. 12-15). We will discuss the plenary sessions, recap information on the Collaborator Showcase, focus on logistical information and answer any questions you might have.

If you haven’t registered for the symposium yet, you can do so here!

To join this meeting, please click “Click here to join the meeting” at the bottom of this invite. If you missed presentations from any of our previous community calls, all videos have been posted here.

WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALLS (Note that some meetings are cancelled due to the symposium)

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.

Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1 pm ET. MEETING IS CANCELLED

Health Equity WG: Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 2 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Tuesday at 2 pm ET

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Outreach/Research Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 3 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month at 3 pm ET.

Vaccine Vocabulary WG: Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 8 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 8am ET. MEETING IS CANCELLED

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET.

Natural Language Processing WG: Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 2 pm ET ( Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month at 2 pm ET.

Early Stage Researchers WG: ( East Coast /West Coast/Asia hemisphere): Wednesday, Sept. 8 at 4pm GMT+9 time (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally due to be held on the second Wednesday of each month at 4pm GMT time. MEETING IS CANCELLED

OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, Sept.9 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.

Education WG: Friday, Sept. 10 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every four weeks on Friday at 9 am ET

China Chapter WG: Friday, Sept. 10 at 11 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Friday of each month at 10 am ET. Note: this meeting does not take place in MS Teams.

Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, Sept. 10 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 1 pm ET.

Early Stage Researchers WG: ( Europe /East Coast /West Coast hemisphere): Monday, Sept. 13 at 1pm UK time (8am ET) (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally due to be held on the second Monday of each month at 1pm UK time. MEETING IS CANCELLED

OHDSI UPDATES

We are still accepting registration for the Main Symposium, 9/14-15. To register in Eventbrite, you can do so here!

A few more days to get your photos in! (2 more spots) Please join in on some symposium fun! To participate in Name That Collaborator!, please check out the details on the website Name that Collaborator! – OHDSI

If you would like to sign up to be an observer for the Reproducibility Workshop on Sept. 13, you may click Sept. 13- OHDSI Reproducibility Challenge Workshop – OHDSI

MSTeams for Symposium: If you are already in OHDSI MSTeams, you should see the OHDSI2021 Symposium Team on the left side when you log into OHDSI MSTeams (for those who registered by Sept. 2); for those who registered after Sept.2, you should see the 2021 Symposium Team by Sept.8.
If you have not set up your OHDSI Teams account, you were sent emails last week. Please make sure you follow the instructions that were sent and that you accepted the invitation to join. For any technical issues in accessing Teams, you may contact support@ohdsi.org

Gather town for Symposium: The Collaborator showcase will take place in Gather town 9/14-15. Instructions with the link will go out Friday, Sept. 10 with all the details on how to join the virtual world. We are excited that over 100 presenters will be on display this year for posters, demos and lightning talks! Please note that the PASSWORD for Gather Town will be emailed after 5pm (ET) Monday, 9/13.

After 5pm (ET) on Monday, Sept. 13, you will also receive the Name That Collaborator! game card and the form to fill out for the “Best Contribution to the 2021 Showcase.” The best contribution winners will be named AFTER the symposium.

An agenda will be sent this week that will include calendar links for the plenaries that take place in MSTeams (if you are logged into Gather town, you may also view them there).

Work groups listed on the OHDSI website: To get a snapshot of the work group meetings for the month, please visit Upcoming Working Group Calls – OHDSI

Accessing MSTeams: To join OHDSI Teams, please fill out this form: Join OHDSI Teams
If you are already in the OHDSI teams environment and you would like to join work groups in teams, please fill out this form: Join Workgroups, Chapters, and Studies

Teams Best Practices and Guidance : For guidance on MS Teams, please log into OHDSI Teams and check out this channel located in the OHDSI Team Teams Best Practices and Guidance
**you can also find the document on our website ohdsi.org under “Collaborate with OHDSI in MS Teams.”

Please continue to collaborate in our MS Teams environment, check out the OHDSI website and forums, and follow us on all platforms, including Twitter and LinkedIn to get continued updates and information on everything happening in our com

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