WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, March 29 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI Community Call, when we discuss the concept of reproducibility. We are excited to have three leaders in our community lead this session:
• Anna Ostropolets, PhD Student • Columbia University
• Asieh Golozar, Vice President, Global Head of Data Science • Odysseus Data Services, Inc.
• Martijn Schuemie, Research Fellow, Epidemiology Analytics • Janssen Research and Development
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 CALL MEETINGS
HIR and OMOP WG- Digital Quality Measurements Subgroup: Wed. March 30 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 Zoom Details: Meeting ID: 836 4585 6405 Passcode: 552204
GIS-Geographic Information System WG DEVELOPMENT Meeting: Wednesday, March 30 at 11am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 11am ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, March 31 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 12pm ET
FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Meeting: Thursday, March 31 at 6pm ET (Pacific & Western Time zone participants) : (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: 685 509 3136 Passcode: 710256)
OMOP CDM Oncology- Vocabulary Subgroup: Thursday March 31 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1pm ET
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, April 1 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 Yuan Lu, Mui Van Zandt, Yun Liu, Jing Li, Xialin Wang, Yong Chen, Zhengfeng Chen, Jaehyeong Cho, Sreemanee Raaj Dorajoo, Mengling Feng, Min-Huei Hsu, Jason C. Hsu, Usman Iqbal, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Yu-Chuan Li, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Hong-Seok Lim, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Phung-Anh Nguyen, Rae Woong Park, Nicole Pratt, Christian Reich, Sang Youl Rhee, Selva Muthu Kumaran Sathappan, Seo Jeong Shin, Hui Xing Tan, Seng Chan You, Xin Zhang, Harlan M. Krumholz, Marc A. Suchard, and Hua Xu on the publication of Analysis of Dual Combination Therapies Used in Treatment of Hypertension in a Multinational Cohort in JAMA Network Open.
This is an especially exciting paper, as it is the first to come out of the OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Workgroup. The APAC team leads a bi-weekly community call, and each is recorded. Last week’s session included a presentation from Christian Reich about the FHIR-OMOP partnership. You can see that recording and get both the link and themes for upcoming calls at the APAC homepage.
OHDSI UPDATES
Registration has 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 | Weekend Room Block | FAQs
Oct. 14 – Main Conference: Information | Registration | Collaborator Showcase
Oct. 15 – Tutorial: Information | Registration
The Open-Source Community is hosting the first OHDSI Dev Con on April 22 (8 am - 12 pm ET) as a way of accepting and mentoring new contributors to our environment. Organized by Paul Nagy and Adam Black on behalf of the Open-Source Community Workgroup, the event will include multiple workshops, talks and a panel discussion to both welcome and engage both current and future developers within OHDSI. You can register for the event now.
The recent presentation on “The OHDSI Vocabulary Journey” from Michael Kallfelz, Christian Reich and Patrick Ryan, including both the video and slides from the community call, as well as the introduction from the Vocabulary chapter in the Book of OHDSI, is available here.
The OMOP CDM Workshop that was held earlier this month has been put together into a single video tutorial, which you can find here. This page also has all the slides from the workshop, as well as the CDM introductory text from the Book of OHDSI.
The next CBER BEST Seminar will be held Wednesday, April 27, at 11 am ET. Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) will present his work on “Addressing Selection and Confounding Bias in Test-Negative Study Designs for Flu and COVID-19 Monitoring.” You can register for this seminar here.
The 2022 OHDSI European Symposium, which will be held at the Steam Ship Rotterdam in The Netherlands, will be held June 24-26. The main symposium will be June 24, and tutorials will be held June 25-26. For more information and the registration link, please visit the symposium homepage.
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