WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Evidence Synthesis is an R package for combining causal effect estimates without sharing individual person data. This includes functions for performing meta-analysis and forest plots. Our look at open-source tools to aid the research journey continues with our May 6 community call (11 am ET), when a pair of Titan Award honorees present the Evidence Synthesis tool:
• Martijn Schuemie, Research Fellow, Global Epidemiology Organization, Johnson & Johnson
• Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
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 UPDATES
The ATLAS working group has put together a short survey to help identify who is using ATLAS in our community. If you are not using ATLAS, please also fill in this survey to help identify any barriers for adoption in your company/institution. Additionally, this survey will ask if you’d like to be interviewed for feedback on your usage of ATLAS. Data4Life is working closely with the working group to conduct interviews (~1hr) that will help inform the future direction of the application.
• The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. This issue includes details on the open-source ecosystem, including all videos from DevCon 2025, community updates, 14 April publications, the latest collaborator spotlight, our May podcast, and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter monthly, you can find it on the website or subscribe here.
• The OHDSI UK Conference will be held September 26 at the Wellcome headquarters in London. More details and registration information are available here. The deadline to submit your abstract for the conference is Friday, May 9; please use this link to submit.
• The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.
• The Columbia Summer School on OHDSI, which will be held July 14-18 at Columbia University, provides health professionals, researchers, and industry practitioners with an immersive, hands-on training to working with real-world health data and generating real-world evidence (RWE). Participants will explore the types of healthcare data captured during routine clinical care—such as electronic health records and administrative claims—and learn how to standardize these data using the OMOP Common Data Model to support collaborative, distributed research as part of a data network. Registration is now open and will be capped at 30 people.
• The next seminar from the Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine will be held Thursday, May 29, at 9-10 am ET. Georgie Kennedy, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the Ingham Institute, will provide a talk on “Learning from Real-World Cancer Data: Maturing data pipelines to support research that impacts clinical care.” Please contact Marty Alvarez at malvarez2@tuftsmedicalcenter.org for calendar invite or questions.
• The Women of OHDSI host a monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything) within their Teams environment. Mui Van Zandt will be the May focus person; please join here and ask questions about Mui’s OHDSI journey, research, work with data, and more.
• Our fourth annual DevCon was held April 25. This event brought together developers and innovators to explore the latest tools, technologies, and strategies shaping the future of open-source software in healthcare and data science. All three sessions, as well as the introductory talk by Paul Nagy, are all available on the DevCon event page.
Save The Dates
• The 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available. The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.
• Registration is open for the Europe Symposium, which will be held July 5-7 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global 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 — Leveraging the Power of OMOP for an Academic Medical Research Institution (Melanie Philofsky)
Tuesday — Characterizing the Temporality of OMOP CDM Concepts in a Mastectomy Phenotype (Matthew Spotnitz)
Wednesday — Comparative Safety of Second-line Antihyperglycemic Agents in Older Adults with Diabetes: Insights from the LEGEND-T2DM study (Chungsoo Kim)
Thursday — The Impact of Evolving Diagnostic Guidelines on Clinical Characterization of Endometriosis (Harry Reyes Nieva)
Friday — The missing link: Cross-species EHR data linkage offers new opportunities for improving One Health (Kathleen Mullen)
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