WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, Dec. 13 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI community call, when we reflect on our progress as a community during 2022.
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 MEETINGS
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 9am ET
OMOP CDM Oncology WG- Outreach/Research Subgroup: Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 3pm (ET) (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 3pm ET
Common Data Model WG – VOCABULARY Subgroup: Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 12pm ET, alternating with the general CDM WG
Patient-Level Prediction (PLP) WG: Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 9am ET ( Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every second Wednesday of the month at 9am ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Wednesday, Dec, 14 at 12pm ET (European & Eastern US Time zone): (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 12pm ET NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates (Meeting ID: 924 8598 5949; Passcode: 119986)
Natural Language Processing WG: Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 2pm ET ( Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month at 2pm ET
Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 7pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7pm ET.
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Thursday, Dec. 15 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 10am ET
HADES WG: Thursday, Dec. 15 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 12pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology- Vocabulary /Development Subgroup: Thursday, Dec. 15 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 1pm ET
Dentistry WG: Thursday, Dec. 15 at 7pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 7pm ET.
GIS-Geographic Information System WG GENERAL Meeting: Friday, Dec. 16 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.
Healthcare Systems Interest Group (formerly Electronic Health Record WG): Monday, Dec. 19 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10am ET
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Seng Chan You, Seongwon Lee, Byungjin Choi, and Rae Woong Park on the publication of Establishment of an International Evidence Sharing Network Through Common Data Model for Cardiovascular Research in Korean Circulation Journal.
Congratulations to the team of Ki-Yeol Park, Min-Ho Kim, Seong-Ho Choi, and Eun-Kyoung Pang on the publication of Association of periodontitis with menopause and hormone replacement therapy: a hospital cohort study using a common data model in the Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science.
Congratulations to Noémie Elhadad, who was selected to serve as the next chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at Columbia University. DBMI is the coordinating center for the OHDSI community. Noémie has been a long-time collaborator within the OHDSI community; she was a panelist for the Women in Real-World Analytics Leadership Forum during the 2019 Symposium, she discussed HERA, a Large-Scale Characterization of Health Equity study, during the 2020 Symposium plenary, and recently led a breakout discussion on maternal health research during a May 2022 community call.
JOB POSTINGS
Northeastern University invites applications for multiple tenured/ tenure-track faculty positions in support of an Impact Engine centered on large-scale observational health data science and informatics to start in the fall of 2023. These faculty will be core members of our Real-World Healthcare Navigator (RWHN) Impact Engine which aims to change how research is translated into clinical practice by establishing a sustainable service that leads the way in fully reproducing health studies (Real-World Healthcare Navigator | Impact Engines). Successful candidates will work closely with the OHDSI Center at Northeastern’s Roux Institute to develop and apply healthcare analytics in the real-world evidence (RWE) area with the goal of improving patient health outcomes. More information and an application link are available here.
• The OHDSI Center at the Roux Institute seeks a postdoctoral fellow to join their team focused on developing statistical methods and applying them to observational data from large-scale federated datasets (e.g. electronic health records and administrative claims data), with specific applications to the safety of biologics. This research will directly improve our ability to use real world data to characterize patient populations, construct population level estimates relating exposures to health outcomes, and to enhance clinical decision making through improved patient-level predictions. More information and an application link are available here.
• FDA/CDER’s Division of Hepatology and Nutrition is seeking a clinician with bioinformatics or biostatistics training to work with the Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) Team to evaluate large datasets of liver-related data, collaborate on the Team’s review of drugs with hepatotoxicity signals, and help develop informatics-based processes in DILI evaluation across the Agency. Contact Judy Racoosin at judith.racoosin@fda.hhs.gov for information about the application process (that will be through USAJOBS).
• Andrew Williams recently announced two exciting new openings at Tufts Medicine. 1) Senior Project Manager for a multisite multiyear grant standardizing critical care EHR and waveform data. (CHoRUS Bridge2AI) 2) Lead software developer and research data warehouse manager for Tufts Medicine’s OMOP instance and related services. Remote work is possible for both positions. If you have questions, please reach out to Andrew at awilliams15@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
• The Johns Hopkins OHDSI team has just put out an opening for a data scientist/statistical engineer position. The candidate is expected to help create further synergy between the domain expertise of Johns Hopkins’s Precision Medicine Centers of Excellence and the extensive health data network provided through our OHDSI collaboration. More details and an application link are available here.
OHDSI UPDATES
Patrick Ryan introduced the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) Challenge on the forums recently. All members of the OHDSI community are welcome and encouraged to submit their entries of the best ERD for the OMOP CDM to this forum post (or to the CDM Workgroup MS Teams site) by TOMORROW, Tuesday, Dec 13. One winner will be selected by a committee from the CDM workgroup, and announced on OHDSI’s last community call of the year on Dec 20.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• The #OHDSISocialShowcase continues this week, as all the research from the OHDSI Symposium collaborator showcase will be presented on the Twitter and LinkedIn social feeds over the next several months. You can see the research and the respective leads that will be shared this week.
Monday: Cancer Phenotyping Pitfalls in EHR: The case of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (Asieh Golozar)
Tuesday: Real World Challenges to Using Real World Data: Creating a Multi-Institutional Database in OMOP (Michael Cantor)
Wednesday: Development of an automated comparator ranking algorithm for the REWARD initiative (Justin Bohn)
Thursday: Healthcare utilization following SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents with chronic conditions: An EHR-based Cohort Study from the RECOVER Program (Nathan Pajor)
Friday: Standardizing Knowledge of Drug Effects: An Application of PheKnowLator for Drug Safety (Tiffany Callahan
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