WEEKLY MEETINGS
Please join us on Tuesday, August 17 (11 am ET) for our next community call, when we will focus on New Developments within OHDSI. We are fortunate to have four presenters for this meeting:
• Ajit Londhe (Advancements to ATLAS)
• Hongfang Liu (Innovations in NLP for OMOP CDM)
• Namki Hong (Improvement of Cohort Selection Performance by SNOMED CT for Rare Endocrine Diseases: RED-CDM Study)
• David Eichman (The Meta-Information Architecture of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative
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
NOTE: THE EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS AND THE EDUCATION WORK GROUPS ARE CANCELLED FOR AUGUST
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, August 17 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, August 17 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1 pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Outreach/Research Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, August 17 at 3 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month at 3 pm ET.
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Wednesday, August 18 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 1 pm ET. THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED
Psychiatry WG: Thursday, August 19 at 8 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 8 am ET.
HADES WG: Thursday, August 19 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 12 pm ET. THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, August 19 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.
Registry WG (formerly UK Bio Bank): Friday, August 20 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every three months on the third Friday at 10 am ET.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, August 20 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Electronic Health Record WG: Friday, August 20 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
GIS-Geographic Information System WG Meeting: Monday, August 23 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Monday at 10 am ET.
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Selva Muthu Kumaran Sathappan, Young Seok Jeon, Trung Kien Dang, Su Chi Lim, Yi-Ming Shao, E Shyong Tai, Mengling Feng for the recent publication of Transformation of Electronic Health Records and Questionnaire Data to OMOP CDM: A Feasibility Study Using SG_T2DM Dataset in Applied Clinical Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
The CDM Working Group will be holding a Hack-a-Thon on August 18-19. In preparation for the symposium, the team will be readying CDM v5.4 by writing both R code and documentation of the model. Everybody is welcome to join, regardless of skill level.
The next edition of the CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series will be Wednesday, September 8, at 11 am. Robert Platt (McGill University) will present a talk on “COVID-19 pharmacoepidemiology in Canada.” The seminar series is open to everybody. More information and a registration link are available here.
If you registered for the symposium, you received an email about the Building Conceptsets Tutorial on Sept. 12 and the Reproducibility Challenge Workshop on Sept. 13. Please note these registrations are separate from the main symposium. Please visit our website pages for more information Sept. 12- Building Conceptsets Tutorial – OHDSI
Sept. 13- OHDSI Reproducibility Challenge Workshop – OHDSI
The 2021 Titan Award nominations are open! The OHDSI Titan Awards serve to recognize those who have gone above and beyond to foster community engagement, lead research and development efforts and make significant contributions towards OHDSI’s mission. This is the fourth year for the OHDSI Titan Awards, and we ask members of the community to nominate individuals, teams or institutions who they want to be considered for this honor. Please make your nomination(s) here; the deadline is August 30 (5 pm ET).
Registration for the 2021 Global OHDSI is still open! To register for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium, please click here
We are sending out a “surprise” before the symposium. If you wish to receive this surprise in the mail, please fill out this form by Aug. 17 (extended deadline) Address for Surprise
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
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.”
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