WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join us Tuesday, Aug 6 (11 am ET), for our third session in the Building the OHDSI Evidence Network Sprint. We continue our two-month initiative to build a global resource of real-world evidence to enhance our mission of improving health by empowering a community to collaboratively generate the evidence that promotes better health decisions and better care.
Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
• Congratulations to the team of Hanna von Gerich, Taridzo Chomutare, and Laura-Maria Peltonen on the publication of Building Bridges for Federated Learning in Healthcare: Review on Approaches for Common Data Model Development in Vol. 315 in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Nishchay Mehta, Baptiste Briot Ribeyre, Lilia Dimitrov, Louise J. English, Colleen Ewart, Antje Heinrich, Nikhil Joshi, Kevin J. Munro, Gail Roadknight, Luis Romao, Anne Gm Schilder, Ruth V. Spriggs, Ruth Norris, Talisa Ross and George Tilston on the publication of Creating a health informatics data resource for hearing health research in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
• Congratulations to the team of David Amadi, Sylvia Kiwuwa-Muyingo, Tathagata Bhattacharjee, Amelia Taylor, Agnes Kiragga, Michael Ochola, Chifundo Kanjala, Arofan Gregory, Keith Tomlin, Jim Todd, Jay Greenfield and the INSPIRE Network on the publication of Making Metadata Machine-Readable as the First Step to Providing Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Population Health Data: Framework Development and Implementation Study in the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
The August 2024 OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes the agenda for the main conference at the Global Symposium, updates from the OHDSI Evidence Network Buildup, a collaborator spotlight with Jason Hsu, recent publications and presentations, community updates and more.
• The agenda for the main conference day of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium is now available. The August 13 community call will focus on both the main conference day and a look at the individual tutorials.
• The Eye Care & Vision Research workgroup is leading a Semaglutide NAION network study based on last week’s OHDSI Evidence Network presentation. Cindy Cai and Michelle Hribar discussed this study and the value of network collaboration; please use this link to join the Eye Care & Vision Workgroup.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 6-9 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Registration information will be posted when available.
• The fifth European OHDSI Symposium, titled “Scaling up Reliable Evidence Across Europe,” was held June 1-3 and brought together data partners, regulators, and researchers to collaborate and share results and ideas about the use of the OMOP-CDM in Europe. All materials from the session, including talks focused on the Selection of European Initiatives Using the OMOP CDM and Large Scale Evidence Generation in EHDEN and DARWIN EU®, as well as the collaborator showcase, can be found all on the event homepage.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Europe Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Integration of Clinical and Genomic Data Mapped to OMOP Common Data Model in a Federated Data Network in Belgium (Tatjana Jatsenko)
Tuesday — Implementing OMOP Standardization for Rheumatology Data in a Dutch Hospital (Manon Merkelbach)
Wednesday — Federated Health Innovation Network (FHIN) (Camille Deltomme)
Thursday — Expanding the OMOP Common Data Model to support Extracorporeal Life Support research (Clemens Rieder)
Friday — Implementation and Updating of Artificial Intelligence Clinical Prediction Models: a Systematic Review (Alexander Saelmans)
OHDSI GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM
• Registration is now open for the 2024 Global Symposium , which will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., USA. The three-day event will feature tutorials on Day 1, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Day 2, and workgroup activities on Day 3.
• Day 1 will open with a single tutorial in the morning: An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence using OHDSI. There will be four advanced tutorials during the afternoon: An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence using OHDSI; Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data Model; So, You Think You Want To Run an OHDSI Network Study?; and Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research. You can select your tutorials during the registration process.
The agenda for the main conference day of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium is now available. The August 13 community call will focus on both the main conference day and a look at the individual tutorials.
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JOB OPENINGS
Ajit Londhe announced an opening for a Senior Associate Director, Real World Evidence and Analytics at Boehringer Ingelheim. The candidate for this remote position will have the opportunity to generate real world evidence (RWE) to support in-line and pipeline products, provide statistical advice on the analysis of real world data (RWD) to various internal and external stakeholders, contribute to the RWD acquisition strategy and tool evaluation, and participate in the development and presentation of RWE trainings. More information and an application link are available here.
• Kevin Haynes shared an opening at CVS Health for a Lead Director, RWE Distributed Research. This position will lead a team of Analytic professionals responsible for transformation of healthcare insurance and pharmacy data into distributed analytic models, including OMOP, used in safety surveillance and collaborative research (SS&C). More information and an application link is available here.
• Aki Nishimura announced that Johns Hopkins University is seeking postdoctoral fellows. The fellows would work on methodological research in pharmaco-epidemiology to address medication and device utilization, effectiveness, and safety relevant to health, lung, and blood diseases. More information and application details are available here.
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