WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, April 12 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI Community Call, when we will learn about the OHDSI Coordinating Center at Columbia University. George Hripcsak will discuss the many ways Columbia supports OHDSI, and he will share why it will be important to support the coordinating center in the future, as well as what benefits can come from your support.
Everybody is invited. Calendar invites for our 2022 community calls go out each Friday. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly meetings will be posted on both our main OHDSI Teams tenant and on our OHDSI.org Community Calls page
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALL MEETINGS
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, April 12 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 9am ET
Common Data Model WG – VOCABULARY Subgroup: Tuesday, April 12 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 12:00 ET, alternating with the general CDM WG.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG- Outreach/Research Subgroup: Tuesday, April 12 at 3pm (ET) (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 3pm ET
FHIR and OMOP WG- Digital Quality Measurements Subgroup: Wed. April 13 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10am ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates Zoom Details: Meeting ID: 836 4585 6405 Passcode: 552204
Natural Language Processing WG: Wednesday, April 13 at 2pm ET ( Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month at 2pm ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, April 14 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 12pm ET
OMOP CDM Oncology- Vocabulary Subgroup: Thursday, April 14 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1pm ET
FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Meeting: Thursday, April 14 at 6pm ET (Pacific & Western Time zone participants) : (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 6pm ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates (Meeting ID: 685 509 3136 Passcode: 710256)
GIS-Geographic Information System WG DEVELOPMENT Meeting: Friday, April 15 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, April 15 at 10:30am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10:30am ET.
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Berta Raventós, Andrea Pistillo, Carlen Reyes, Sergio Fernández-Bertolín, Maria Aragón, Anna Berenguera, Constanza Jacques-Aviñó, Laura Medina-Perucha, Edward Burn, and Talita Duarte-Salles on the publication of Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diagnoses of common mental health disorders in adults in Catalonia, Spain: a population-based cohort study in BMJ Open.
Congratulations to the team of Tae-Hoon Kim, SiHyeong Noh, Youe Ree Kim, ChungSub Lee, Ji Eon Kim, Chang-Won Jeong, and Kwon-Ha Yoon on the publication of Development and validation of a management system and dataset quality assessment tool for the Radiology Common Data Model (R_CDM): A case study in liver disease in the International Journal of
OHDSI UPDATES
The Open-Source Community is hosting the first OHDSI Dev Con on April 22 (8 am - 12 pm ET) as a way of accepting and mentoring new contributors to our environment. Organized by Paul Nagy and Adam Black on behalf of the Open-Source Community Workgroup, the event will include multiple workshops, talks and a panel discussion to both welcome and engage both current and future developers within OHDSI. You can register for the event now.
• Registration has opened for the 2022 OHDSI Symposium, which will be held Oct. 14-16 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. The main conference will be held Friday, Oct. 14, while a full-day tutorial (An Introductory Journey from Data to Evidence) will be held Saturday, Oct. 15. There will be several workgroup activities between Oct. 15-16 as well. Here are several important links for #OHDSI2021.
Full Symposium: Homepage | Weekend Room Block | FAQs
Oct. 14 – Main Conference: Information | Registration | Collaborator Showcase
Oct. 15 – Tutorial: Information | Registration
• The next CBER BEST Seminar will be held Wednesday, April 27, at 11 am ET. Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) will present his work on “Addressing Selection and Confounding Bias in Test-Negative Study Designs for Flu and COVID-19 Monitoring.” You can register for this seminar here.
• The 2022 OHDSI European Symposium, which will be held at the Steam Ship Rotterdam in The Netherlands, will be held June 24-26. The main symposium will be June 24, and tutorials will be held June 25-26. For more information and the registration link, please visit the symposium homepage.
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.”
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