WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, Nov. 22 (11 am ET), for the next OHDSI Community Call, when we will host another of our popular “10-Minute Tutorial” sessions. Five of our community leaders in open-source software development will provide quick tutorials on tools that you can use for your research:
PHOEBE 2.0 • Anna Ostropolets (PhD Student, Columbia University)
Automated Comparator Selection • Justin Bohn (Associate Director, Epidemiology at Janssen)
Strategus • Anthony Sena (Associate Director, Observational Health Data Analytics at Janssen)
Einstein-ATLAS • Selvin Soby (Director, Informatics & Data Analytics at Montefiore)
Broadsea • Lee Evans (Founder, LTS Computing LLC)
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 (please check with meeting organizers as some meetings will be cancelled due to the holiday)
OMOP CDM Oncology WG - Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 22 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, Nov. 22 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, Nov. 22 at 3pm (ET) (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 3pm ET
FHIR and OMOP WG- Digital Quality Measurements Subgroup: Wed, Nov. 23 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 (Meeting ID: 836 4585 6405; Passcode: 552204)
Latin America WG: Wednesday, Nov. 23 at 11am Bogota/Lima/Quito time (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the fourth Wednesday of each month at 11am Bogota/Lima/Quito time
Open-Source Community WG: Wednesday, Nov. 23 at 11am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 11am ET.
Medical Devices WG: Thursday, Nov. 24 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the fourth Thursday of each odd month at 10am ET.
Dentistry WG: Thursday, Nov. 24 at 7pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 7pm ET. THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, Nov. 25 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 9am ET.
GIS-Geographic Information System WG DEVELOPMENT Meeting: Friday, Nov. 25 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, Nov. 25 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 9am ET.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, Nov. 25 at 10:15am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10:15am ET.
Healthcare Systems Interest Group (formerly Electronic Health Record WG): Monday, Dec. 5 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10am ET
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Yuan Peng, Elisa Henke, Ines Reinecke, Michéle Zoch, Martin Sedlmayr, and Franziska Bathelt on the publication of An ETL-process design for data harmonization to participate in international research with German real-world data based on FHIR and OMOP CDM in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Yerim Kim, Seung In Seo, Kyung Joo Lee, Jinseob Kim, Jong Jin Yoo, Won-Woo Seo, Hyung Seok Lee, Woon Geon Shin on the publication of Long-term use of proton-pump inhibitor on Alzheimer’s disease: a real-world distributed network analysis of six observational Korean databases using a Common Data Model in Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders.
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 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.
• Anna Ostropolets will defend her dissertation at Columbia University on Wed., Nov. 30, with an open session scheduled for 10 am ET (join that session here). Her dissertation title is “Generating Reliable and Responsive Observational Evidence: Reducing Pre-analysis Bias.”
• Rupa Makadia was the latest guest to join the Early-Stage Researchers Career Speaker Series. You can watch that discussion here. The next session will be held Monday, Dec. 12 (11 am ET), and Kristin Kostka will be the featured speaker. You can join the call at https://bit.ly/OHDSILeaders.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• The #OHDSISocialShowcase begins 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: Deployment of an OMOP CDM-compatible NLP system for Rapid Development and Dissemination of a Long-COVID Extraction NLP task (Andrew Wen)
Tuesday: Impact of random oversampling and random undersampling on the development and validation of prediction models using observational health data (Cynthia Yang)
Wednesday: Building Korean NER models for a manually annotated corpus from clinical notes using cross-lingual transfer learning (Jianfu Li)
The social showcase will return Monday, Nov. 28, for a full week of presentations.
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