WEEKLY MEETINGS
Please join us this Tuesday, June 8 (11 am ET) for another edition of our “10-Minute Tutorials” OHDSI community call. We will be learning about the following open-source tools this Tuesday:
• PHOEBE (Anna Ostropolets)
• Cohort Diagnostics (Gowtham Rao)
• ATC Heirarchy (Christian Reich)
Many of you will have the calendar link in your OHDSI Teams environment. If not, you will need the specific meeting link to access the community call; it will also be posted in the main OHDSI Teams environment. As always, if you can’t make it, the recordings will be posted to both our Community Calls page and the General OHDSI Teams recordings folder.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALLS
GIS-Geographic Information System WG Meeting: Monday, June 7 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Monday at 10 am ET.
Early Stage Researchers WG: ( Europe /East Coast /West Coast hemisphere): Monday, June 7 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.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, June 8 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, June 9 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET.
Natural Language Processing WG: Wednesday, June 9 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, June 9 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.
Psychiatry WG: Thursday, June 10 at 8 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 8 am ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, June 10 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.
China Chapter WG: Friday, June 11 at 10 am 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.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, June 11 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Electronic Health Record WG: Friday, June 11 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, June 11 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 1 pm ET.
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to Gyu Lee Kim, Yu Hyeon Yi, Hye Rim Hwang, Jinmi Kim, Youngmin Park, Yun Jin Kim, Jeong Gyu Lee, Young Jin Tak, Seung Hun Lee, Sang Yeoup Lee, Youn Hye Cho, Eun Ju Park, and Youngin Lee for this recent study “The Risk of Osteoporosis and Osteoporotic Fracture Following the Use of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Medical Treatment: An Analysis Using the OMOP CDM Database” that was posted last week in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
Last week’s APAC Community Call featured two exciting APAC Network Research presentations, both of which have been posted to the website. Byungkon Kang presented on Automated terminology mapping via deep learning-based semantic matching, while Ty Stanford presented on the LEGEND Shiny App. The next APAC Community Call will be June 17 and will be held in MS Teams; if you don’t have access to this team, please fill out this form.
The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter “The Journey” was published last week and it includes information on the two CHARYBDIS studies posted last month, the work with the PIONEER Prostate Cancer team, links to community call presentations, the monthly video podcast, and much more. If you didn’t receive it, you can subscribe to The Journey here.
JOB POSTINGS! The community shared two openings last week.
Dave Kern shared an opening for Associate Director in Epidemiology within Janssen R&D. The epidemiologist will support the ‘Real-World Assessment and Research of Drug Performance’ (REWARD) initiative, an ambitious collaborative effort to develop a systematic process for observational database analyses to enable exploration and identification of differentiated benefits of medical products to support R&D’s clinical development strategy. This position will also perform pharmacoepidemiology activities to support the neuroscience therapeutic area, including characterizing disease natural history and treatment patterns, safety evaluations, benefit- risk assessments, and patient-level prediction models.
More information and an application link are available here.
Amelia Averitt shared an opening for a Senior Manager, Clinical Informatics position at Regeneron Genetics. The position will be responsible for conducting analyses involving clinical and phenotypic data for genetics studies as well as clinical development and commercial programs. Responsibilities will include developing complex phenotypes as well as curating, cleaning, and analyzing large-scale phenotypic datasets, including de-identified EHR extracts from external collaborators, targeted clinical datasets in selected cohorts, and internal datasets from clinical trials and other human subject research.
More information and an application link are available here.
The next edition of the CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series will be Wednesday, June 16, at 11 am. Bruce Fireman (Kaiser Permanente) will present a talk on “Methods for Monitoring the Safety and Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.” The seminar series is open to everybody. More information and a registration link is available here.
Collaborator Showcase: The deadline for abstract submissions for the 2021 OHDSI Global Symposium is less than two weeks away (June 18, 2021 at 8 pm ET). We are accepting submissions for posters, oral presentations and software demonstrations. For more information, including the submission template, please check out the Showcase homepage. There was also a brief presentation during last week’s community call about submitting your brief reports, which you can see here.
Registration for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium is open! To register for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium, please click here
Sponsorship: All OHDSI activities depend largely on government grants and organization sponsorships; please email symposium@ohdsi.org if you would like to consider sponsorship opportunities for this year’s symposium
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
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**you can also find the document on our website ohdsi.org under “Collaborate with OHDSI in MS Teams.”
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