WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, Sept. 27 (11 am ET), as international leaders in health technology assessment will lead a session to figure out ways that the OHDSI community can enhance the tools and standards for HTA around the world. This session will be led by Dalia Dawoud and Jamie Elvidge of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and Marie Osterberg and Lena Wallgren from the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services.
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, Sept 27 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, Sept 27 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, Sept 27 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, Sept. 28 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, Sept 28 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
FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, Sept 29 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 12pm ET
FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Thursday, Sept. 29 at 6pm ET (Pacific & Western Time zone): (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: 970 7397 4923; Passcode:600294)
GIS-Geographic Information System WG DEVELOPMENT Meeting: Friday, Sept. 30 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, Sept. 30 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 Rory J. McCrimmon, Alice Y.Y. Cheng, Gagik Galstyan, Khier Djaballah, Xuan Li, Mathieu Coudert, and Juan P. Frias on the publication of iGlarLixi versus basal plus Rapid-Acting insulin in adults with type 2 diabetes advancing from basal insulin therapy: The SoliSimplify Real-World study Diabetes, Obeesity and Metabolism.
Congratulations to George Hripcsak, chair of the OHDSI Coordinating Center at Columbia University, on being announced as the 2022 recipient of the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence, the top honor in the field of informatics. He will receive this honor at the 2022 AMIA Symposium.
JOB POSTINGS
Jon Duke recently announced an opening for a Branch Head – Health Interoperability and Security-ICL in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). The application deadline is Nov. 13, 2022. More information and an application link is available here.
Tim Burdick posted an opening for a Senior Database Developer at Dartmouth Health (DH). This position would be the lead developer for DH research database management systems, including OMOP, as well as i2b2, TriNetX, tiCrypt, and research use of REDCap. More information on this remote position, as well as an application link, is available here.
Talita Duarte-Salles , a 2020 OHDSI Titan Award honoree, recently announced an opening for a post-doc to join her Real World Epidemiology group at the The Institut d’Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol (IDIAPJGol); more information is available here.
OHDSI UPDATES
The latest OHDSI Collaborator Spotlight features Jing Li, an Associate Director of Data Science at IQVIA. In this edition, Jing discusses her career and how she moved into healthcare, her excitement about the growing APAC community, and plenty more.
The full agenda for the OHDSI 2022 Symposium is now available. Check out the main conference schedule, which includes a plenary on objective diagnostics, presentations around OHDSI support for regulatory authorities, the collaborator showcase and plenty more.
The new India Regional Chapter was announced last week. Learn more about the chapter, its goals, and how to collaborate with this chapter in this flyer.
OHDSI SYMPOSIUM
2022 OHDSI Symposium
The full agenda for the OHDSI 2022 Symposium is now available. Check out the main conference schedule, which includes a plenary on objective diagnostics, presentations around OHDSI support for regulatory authorities, the collaborator showcase and plenty more.
Registration remains 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 #OHDSI2022.
Full Symposium: Homepage | FAQs
Oct. 14 – Main Conference: Information | Registration | Collaborator Showcase
Oct. 15 – Tutorial: Information | Registration
Oct. 15-16 – Workgroup Activities: Information | Registration
HOTEL SLEEPING ROOMS:
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE OHDSI ROOM BLOCK HAS SOLD OUT BUT YOU CAN STILL MAKE A HOTEL ROOM ON THE HOTEL’S WEBSITE.
HOTEL WEBSITE:
Rockville, MD Hotel | Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
GUEST-ROOM WI-FI: to get free guest room Wi-fi at the symposium you can join the Marriott rewards program here https://www.marriott.com/loyalty.mi
FOR A LIST OF OTHER HOTELS IN THE BETHESDA AREA, YOU MAY CLICK THIS LINK HOTELS-IN-THE-BETHESDA-AREA.pdf (ohdsi.org)
OHDSI MSTEAMS
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Teams Best Practices and Guidance: For guidance on MS Teams, please check out this link
OHDSI-MICROSOFT-TEAMS-BEST-PRACTICES-1.pdf
Duplicate email removal from OHDSI Teams: As you should always be using one email in OHDSI Teams when joining all workgroups, you may remove duplicate emails by filling out this form
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