WEEKLY MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, June 15 (11 am ET) for an OHDSI Community Call focused on Professional Development. We will be opening four breakout sessions that focus on:
• Clinical Epidemiology (Moderators: Talita Duarte-Salles and Dani Prieto-Alhambra)
• Information/Data Management (Moderators: Maxim Moinat and Mui Van Zandt)
• Open-Source Software Development (Moderators: Greg Klebanov and Kees van Bochove)
• Statistical Methods (Moderators: Yong Chen and Marc Suchard)
Our breakout sessions are meant to be open conversations in these areas. While each room will have at least one moderator, we are hopeful to have as many people as possible engage in conversation, by asking questions, sharing suggestions, providing guidance, etc. Everybody is invited!
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.
The next APAC Community Call will be June 17 and will focus on OHDSI Projects. Professor Lei Liu of Fudan University will provide a presentation on “Applying the OMOP CDM to Hepatobiliary Clinical Research Database at Zhongshan Hospital. Also, Mui Van Zandt will lead a discussion about collecting attitudinal information from the community to support planning and activities. This call will be held in MS Teams; if you don’t have access to this team, please fill out this form.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALLS
GIS-Geographic Information System WG Meeting: Monday, June 14 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Monday at 10 am ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, June 15 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, June 15 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1 pm ET.
Women of OHDSI WG: Tuesday, June 15 at 2 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month at 2 pm ET. NOTE: THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Outreach/Research Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, June 15 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, June 16 at 8 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 8am ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Development Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, June 16 at 10 am ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 10 am ET. Note: this meeting was changed from June 23
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Wednesday, June 16 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 1 pm ET.
HADES WG: Thursday, June 17 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 12 pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, June 17 at 1 pm ET: (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.
Education WG: Friday, June 18 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every four weeks on Friday at 9 am ET (15 CET)
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to Xintong Li, Anna Ostropolets, Rupa Makadia, Azza Shoaibi, Gowtham Rao, Anthony Sena, Eugenia Martinez-Hernandez, Antonella Delmestri, Katia Verhamme, Peter Rijnbeek, Talita Duarte-Salles, Marc Suchard, Patrick Ryan, George Hripcsak, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, for this recent study “Characterising the background incidence rates of adverse events of special interest for covid-19 vaccines in eight countries: multinational network cohort study” that was posted today in The BMJ. You can learn more about this study in this OHDSI press release.
OHDSI UPDATES
The format of the June 22 OHDSI community call has been changed. We will now have a community brainstorm on how OHDSI should focus on Health Inequalities. This conversation will be open to everybody on the call, and it will help inform the new Health Equity Workgroup, which will meet for the first time later in the month.
The next edition of the CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series will be this 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.
The deadline for abstract submissions for the 2021 OHDSI Global Symposium is THIS WEEK (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
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 community.