WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
The OHDSI community continues to flourish in our Asia-Pacific region, and leads of eight regional chapters in the APAC community will provide mid-year updates during our July 29 community call (11 am ET).
Singapore: Evelyn Goh (PhD Student, National Univ. of Singapore)
Japan: Keiko Asao (President, Kappa Medical K.K.)
India: Swetha Jakkuva (Real World Evidence Lead, Global Value Web)
Thailand: Max Natthawut Adulyanukosol (Deputy Director of Siriraj Informatics and Data Innovation, Mahidol Univ.)
Korea: Seng Chan You (Assistant Professor, National Univ. of Singapore)
Vietnam: Phan Thanh-Phuc (Data Science Professional, Univ. Medical Center)
Taiwan: Jason Hsu (Professor, Taipei Medical University)
China: Hui Lu (Distinguished Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.)
We will get an update on the FHIR-to-OMOP Implementation Guide from Davera Gabriel and Jean Duteau. You will hear what is in the guide and how you can provide feedback by joining the formal review before the ballot pool closes on August 7.
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 Samuel Trezena, Daniella Reis Barbosa Martelli, Paulo Rogério Ferreti Bonan, Edgard Graner, Lívia Maria Ferreira Sobrinho, Faizan Alawi, Ricardo D Coletta, and Hercílio Martelli-Júnior on the recent publication of Knowledge and attitudes about rare genetic diseases among practitioners of oral medicine/pathology in Brazil: a cross-sectional study in Frontiers in Oral Health.
• Congratulations to the team of Aasiyah Rashan, Daniel P Püttmann, Nicolette F de Keizer, Dave A Dongelmans, Ronald Cornet, Otavio Ranzani, Wangari Waweru-Siika, Matthew Smith, Steve Harris, Abi Beane, Ferishta Bakhshi-Raiez; Collaboration for Research, Implementation and Training in Critical Care—Asia and Africa Investigators, and the Dutch National Intensive Care Registry on the recent publication of Using the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model for a multi-registry intensive care unit benchmarking federated analysis: lessons learned in JAMIA Open.
• Congratulations to the team of Clair Blacketer, Frank J DeFalco, Mitchell M Conover, Patrick B Ryan, Martijn J Schuemie, and Peter R Rijnbeek on the recent publication of Evaluation of the impact of defining observable time in real-world data on outcome incidence in JAMIA.
• Congratulations to the team of Vinícius João de Barros Vanzin, Dilvan de Abreu Moreira, Ricardo Marcondes Marcacini on the recent publication of LLM-based approaches for automated vocabulary mapping between SIGTAP and OMOP CDM concepts in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
During the July 28 community call, we will get an update on the FHIR-to-OMOP Implementation Guide from Davera Gabriel and Jean Duteau. You will hear what is in the guide and how you can provide feedback by joining the formal review before the ballot pool closes on August 7.
• On August 12, we will host our annual “Meet OHDSI Newcomers” community call. If you are relatively new to the community or hope to have a bigger role, this is a great opportunity to introduce yourself. Please tell us who you are and where you work, what are your research interests, how you hope to help the community, and how OHDSI can help your own research journey. For scheduling purposes, please note your interest in taking part in this brief survey.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 both the 2024 UK Symposium and the 2025 Europe 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 — Comparative Analysis of the Natural History and Outcomes of Early-Onset and Late-Onset Colorectal Cancer (Rita Rb-Silva)
Tuesday — Trends in the incidence of large and medium vessel occlusion acute ischemic stroke: a population-based study protocol (João Sargento-Freitas)
Wednesday — Retrospective impact of varying uptake of heart failure risk factors treatments: a cross-sectional study protocol using primary care and hospital data (Mário Santos)
Thursday — New Psychoactive Substances in the Autonomous Region of Madeira: a cohort study protocol (Licínio Santos)
Friday — Associations between sedation, analgesia practices and complications in ventilated patients: A Protocol of a 10-year Real-World Observational Study (Raúl Cordeiro)
OHDSI SYMPOSIA
GLOBAL OHDSI SYMPOSIUM, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Oct. 7-9
• Registration for the 2025 Global Symposium including tutorials and workgroup meetings is now open! On Oct. 7th there will be an introductory tutorial during the morning session, and five advanced tutorials during the afternoon session. The plenary plus collaborator showcase will take place on Oct. 8th followed by the workgroup meetings on Oct. 9th.
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:
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Symposium Homepage
The first-ever 2025 OHDSI Africa Symposium will be held Nov. 10-12 in Kampala, Uganda, and registration is open. The abstract submission deadline will be Sept. 10. Agenda 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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