WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
The OHDSI Titan Awards celebrate extraordinary dedication and impact across our global network, recognizing those whose efforts continually drive OHDSI’s mission forward. These awards reflect the pinnacle of community recognition for contributions spanning data standards, methodological research, open-source development, clinical application, leadership, collaboration and support.
We were proud to honor our ninth set of Titan Award recipients during the Global Symposium. Please join our Nov. 3 (11 am ET) community call to learn more about their journeys and the recent accomplishments that were celebrated by the community.
Congratulations to our 2026 Titan Award winners:
Data Standards: Masha Khitrun
Methodological Research: Bingyu Zhang
Open-Source Development: Richard Boyce
Clinical Application: Eyecare and Vision Research WG
Community Leadership: Jason Hsu
Community Collaboration: Andrew Kanter
Community Support: Renske Los
Everybody is invited. If you didn’t receive a call invite, please use this link to join. The call schedule and previous recordings can be found on the community calls page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
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OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Jian Sun, Jerome Anyalebechi, Bijan Najafi, Raul Rosenthal, and Edward H. Livingston on the recent publication of Baseline Diabetes Severity Is the Dominant Predictor of Diabetes Medication Re-Initiation Following Bariatric Surgery in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.
• Congratulations to the team of Yujie Chen, Martin Yi, Catherine C. Aftandilian, Melissa P. Beauchemin, Christine Cunningham, Emily Larimer, Jennifer Oberg, Benjamin L. May, Keith Morse, Karthik Natarajan, David Noyd, Vicki Soucek, Rhea K. Khurana, Phil Sim, Lin Lawrence Guo, and Lillian Sung on the recent publication of Increased Healthcare Utilization and Differential Outcomes for Pediatric Cancer Versus Non-Cancer Patients in Cancer Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Xuelin Sun, Dongfang Qian, Wenjing Zhao, Jingyi Zhang, Pengfei Jin and Yatong Zhang on the recent publication of Progress in pharmacovigilance research based on artificial intelligence and real-world data: a structured narrative review in the Journal of Translational Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available, and it includes a review and key links from the Global Symposium, spotlights on two of our Asia-Pacific leaders, community updates, recent publications and presentations, and more.
• Materials from the 2026 Global Symposium will be available on the event homepage when available. Look for both the main conference talks and Collaborator Showcase posters/demos to be available by the end of October.
• The OHDSI website received a complete refresh prior to the symposium. There are new pages devoted to the work OHDSI does, as well as the similar links to community forums, workgroups, community calls, and more.
• The 2026 version of the Our Journey annual report (fifth edition) is available via PDF on the OHDSI website.
• Take any great photos at #OHDSI2026? Please share your photos from the Global Symposium! By submitting photos, you grant permission for OHDSI to use them in upcoming community communications, recaps, and promotional materials.
• A new call for papers is open for a Journal of Biomedical Informatics special issue focusing on agentic AI for generating trustworthy Real-World Evidence (RWE). The issue seeks contributions on multi-agent collaboration and coordinated autonomy across the RWE lifecycle—such as data harmonization and causal analysis—while excluding single-task AI agents. Submissions are accepted from June 15 through November 15, 2026, with publication slated for September 2027.
OHDSI SOCIAL SHOWCASE
• Research from both the 2026 Europe Symposium Collaborator Showcase and the 2026 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, X, Instagram and Bluesky social channels as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — A Universal Prioritized Set of Pharmacovigilance Outcomes Derived From Nine Complementary Sources Using Large Language Models (Frank DeFalco)
Tuesday — Evaluating Large Language model against Structured EHR Diagnoses: Agreement Patterns and Discrepancies (Mohan Kashyap Pargi)
Wednesday — Reducing False Rejections in Covariate Balance Assessment for Target Trial Emulation Using a Joint Wald Diagnostic (Xinyao Jian)
Thursday — NUM^OHDSI Connect: A Transatlantic Collaboration between the German Network University Medicine and the OHDSI Community (Katja Hoffmann)
Friday — A Standardized Schema for Sharing Probabilistic Phenotypes (Arootin Gharibian)
UPCOMING OHDSI EVENTS
• Registration is open for the 2026 OHDSI APAC Symposium, which will take place Nov. 13-15 at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. This will be a 3-day event, kicking off with the main conference and then including tutorials and a datathon during the weekend. Please check the event homepage for details on the agenda and collaborator showcase.
• Registration is open for the OHDSI Canada Symposium, held Nov. 17-18 in Toronto, Ont. The event will feature a workshop day on Nov. 17 and a main conference day on Nov. 18.
• Registration is open for the third annual OHDSI India Symposium, held December 11 in Chennai. More details will be shared with the community as they become available.
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