WEEKLY MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, August 3 (11 am ET) for our next OHDSI Community Call, when we will hear about the exciting progress being made within the Asia-Pacific region. Leaders from our six APAC chapters will be sharing presentations during the meeting:
• Roger Ward (Australia)
• Hua Xu (China)
• Tatsuo Hiramatsu (Japan)
• Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng (Singapore)
• Seng Chan You (South Korea)
• Jason Hsu (Taiwan)
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
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, August 3 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, August 3 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1 pm ET. MEETING IS CANCELLED
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Outreach/Research Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, August 3 at 3 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month at 3 pm ET.
Patient-Level Prediction/Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Eastern Hemi): Wednesday, August 4 at 4 pm KST (2AM ET) (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Wednesday of every month at 4 pm KST. MEETING IS CANCELLED
Psychiatry WG: Thursday, August 5 at 8 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 8 am ET.
Patient-Level Prediction/Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Western Hemi): Thursday, August 5 at 12 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Thursday of every month at 12 pm ET
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, August 5 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, August 6 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Electronic Health Record WG: Friday, August 6 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 9 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Monday at 10 am ET.
Early Stage Researchers WG: ( Europe /East Coast /West Coast hemisphere): Monday, August 9 at 1pm UK time (8am ET) (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally due to be held on the second Monday of each month at 1pm UK time. MEETING IS CANCELLED
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Clair Blacketer, Frank Defalco, Patrick Ryan, and Peter Rijnbeek on the publication of “Increasing trust in real-world evidence through evaluation of observational data quality” in Hypertension.
OHDSI UPDATES
Thank you to the Scientific Review Committee, who reviewed more than 110 collaborator showcase submissions over the last month. Notifications of acceptances were sent out. The 2021 Scientific Review Committee is comprised of Nsikak Akpakpan, Juan Banda, Maytal Bivas-Benita, Adrien Coulet, Jon Duke, Leanne Goldstein, Jill Hardin, Elisse Katzman, Kristin Kostka, Christophe Lambert, Rupa Makadia, Melanie Philofsky, Jose Posada, Hanieh Razzaghi, Patrick Ryan, Craig Sachson, Sarah Seager, Mui Van Zandt, Rohit Vashisht, Andrew Williams, Chen Yanover, and Seng Chan You.
There will be a one-hour inaugural open HL7-OHDSI meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 4 at 10 am ET). This meeting goal is to review and update plans for the collaboration, and discuss how members of the community can get involved. Speakers will include Ed Hammond, George Hripcsak, Wayne Kubick (HL7), Christian Reich (OHDSI), Floyd Eisenberg (HL7), and Jon Duke (OHDSI). You can register for this meeting here.
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.
Nega Gebreyesus announced the formation of the Africa Chapter within the OHDSI community during last week’s community call. If you want to join this chapter (or any workgroup), please fill out this form.
The 2021 Titan Award nominations are now 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 Symposium is 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 Address for Surprise
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
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**you can also find the document on our website ohdsi.org under “Collaborate with OHDSI in MS Teams.”
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