WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
The 2025 OHDSI Europe Symposium was a fantastic event that highlighted many of the innovations and collaborations taking place across the continent. Members of the leadership team will provide a review of the symposium during our July 15 (11 am ET) community call. Watch for collaborator showcase research from #OHDSIEurope2025 to be highlighted soon on all of OHDSI’s social channels!
Everybody is invited. If you do not have a calendar invite, 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 Rachelle Haber, Michael Webster-Clark, Nicole Pratt, Nicola Barclay, Xue Li, Judith C. Maro, Robert W. Platt, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, and Kristian B. Filion on the recent publication of Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Multi-Database Distributed Data Networks in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
• Congratulations to the team of Matthew Spotnitz, John Giannini, Emily Clark, Yechiam Ostchega, Tamara R Litwin, Stephanie L Goff, and Lew Berman on the recent publication of Assessing the Data Quality Dimensions of Surgical Oncology Cohorts in the All of Us Research Program in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Maksym Trofymenko, Eduard Korchmar, Denys Kaduk, Marta Vikhrak, Bohdan Khilchevskyi, Tetiana Nesmiian, Polina Talapova, Max Ved and Inna Ageeva on the recent publication of Jackalope Plus tool for post-coordination, ontology development, and precise mapping in observational health studies in Scientific Reports.
• Congratulations to the team of Naroa Mendez, Eduardo Alonso, Moisés David Espejo, Maite López, Maykel Alonso-Arce, Eñaut Rojo, Alba Garin-Muga on the publication of Harmonizing Electronic Health Records to the OMOP Common Data Model: A Case Study on Surgical Complications in Volume 328 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics: Global Healthcare Transformation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
Thank you to everybody in the community who submitted brief reports. We had nearly 150 submissions for our #OHDSI2025 Collaborator Showcase, which will be held Oct. 8 as part of the Global Symposium (more information below).
• There is still time to let your voice be heard on the future of ATLAS. All surveys remain open and will help our ATLAS workgroup develop its future roadmap. You can find the surveys below, and they are also available on the ATLAS roadmap homepage, along with the demo videos.
Overview: Microsoft Forms
Data Sources/Vocabulary: Microsoft Forms
Concept Sets/Cohorts: Microsoft Forms
Characterization, Incidence, Treatment Pathways: Microsoft Forms
Technical and Administrative Functions: Microsoft Forms
• Cindy Cai , a 2024 Titan Award winner and co-lead of the Eyecare and Vision Research workgroup, announced a new network study to research whether semaglutide is associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. This study follows up on a recent JAMA Ophthalmology publication. If you are interested in collaborating or learning more, please join the Eyecare and Vision Research workgroup.
• Tiffany Callahan (Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist at SandboxAQ) will provide a talk (July 31, 11 am ET) on ‘Agentic Mixture-of-Workflows for Multi-Modal Chemical Search’ during the next edition of The Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine speaker series. This will be held on Zoom; please reach out to Marty Alvarez (malvarez2@tuftsmedicalcenter.org) if you are interested in joining the session.
• OHDSI is now on Bluesky! You can now get updates on all community activities and see all global research through the #OHDSISocialShowcase on Bluesky.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 UK Symposium Collaborator Showcase is being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram and Bluesky social channels as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Cohort Discovery and the OMOP Common Data Model (Bradley Kirby)
Tuesday — Mapping the population data of England into OMOP CDM (Mehrdad A. Mizani)
Wednesday — Integrating advanced NLP techniques with the OMOP CDM enhances the accuracy and completeness of hematologic oncology data (Clara L. Oeste)
Thursday — omopcept: an R package for querying and visualising omop concepts (Andy South)
Friday — Cloud-Based, Automated Solution for Transforming Clinical Datasets to the OMOP CDM (Simon Thompson)
OHDSI SYMPOSIA
GLOBAL OHDSI SYMPOSIUM, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Oct. 7-9
• Registration for the 2025 Global Symposium is now open! You are now able to register for any of the tutorials as well. There will be an introductory tutorial during the morning session, and five advanced tutorials during the afternoon session.
OHDSI 2025 Morning Tutorials
An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence Using OHDSI Lead: Erica Voss
OHDSI 2025 Afternoon Tutorials
Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data Model Lead: Clair Blacketer
Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research Lead: Anna Ostropolets
Clinical Characterization Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: Patrick Ryan
Population-Level Effect Estimation Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: George Hripcsak
Patient-Level Prediction Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: Jenna Reps
Global Symposium links:
Please Register for the Symposium Here
Please book your hotel room here - Hyatt Regency NJ
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Symposium Homepage
• The 2025 OHDSI Africa Symposium will be held Nov. 10-12 in Kampala, Uganda. The abstract submission deadline will be August 25. More details will be shared when available.
• The 2025 OHDSI Asia-Pacific Symposium will be held Dec. 6-7 in Shanghai, China. The abstract submission deadline will be August 25. More details will be shared when available.
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