WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join us Tuesday, Nov. 5 (11 am ET) to meet our 2024 Titan Award winners. Nominated and awarded by fellow community members, these collaborators did exceptional work to further OHDSI’s mission this year. You will learn about their journeys and work this Tuesday! The 2024 Titan Award winners are:
Data Standards: Alexander Davydov, Vlad Korsik, Anna Ostropolets, Oleg Zhuk
Methodological Research: Linying Zhang
Open-Source Development: Martin Lavallee
Clinical Applications: Cindy Cai, Jung Ho Kim, Jack Janetzki
Community Collaboration: Natthawut “Max” Adulyannukosol
Community Support: Montse Camprubí, Elisse Katzman
Community Leadership: Clair Blacketer
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 Renato Ferrandiz-Espadin, Gabriela Rabasa, Sarah Gasman, Brooke McGinley, Rachael Stovall, S. Reza Jafarzadeh, Jean W. Liew and Maureen Dubreuil on the recent publication of Disparities in time to diagnosis of Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis in The Journal of Rheumatology.
• Congratulations to the team of Jiayi Tong, Lu Li, Jenna Marie Reps, Vitaly Lorman, Naimin Jing, Mackenzie Edmondson, Xiwei Lou, Ravi Jhaveri, Kelly J. Kelleher, Nathan M. Pajor, Christopher B. Forrest, Jiang Bian, Haitao Chu, and Yong Chen on the recent publication of Advancing Interpretable Regression Analysis for Binary Data: A Novel Distributed Algorithm Approach in Statistics in Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
• Thank you to everybody who joined us at the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium. It was our most well-attended in-person event since OHDSI began more than a decade ago. Videos and slides from the event will be posted on the symposium homepage when available; you can already look at the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase!
NEI Challenge
The National Eye Institute (NEI) Expand OHDSI Initiative for Eye Care and Ocular Imaging Challenge seeks innovative ideas to broaden the use of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) network for vision research, promoting the adoption of the OMOP Common Data Model. This challenge incentivizes researchers to develop novel approaches that enhance data quality and foster advancements in ophthalmology and optometry.
The mandatory registration (intent to participate) is due by November 12, 2024. Entities must register their intent to participate by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on November 12, 2024 by submitting the Challenge Registration Formto neiodshi@nei.nih.gov. Entities who do not complete their registration by the deadline will not have their submissions considered for this Challenge. Each Participant Entity must designate a Point of Contact responsible for registering and submitting on behalf of the Entity and for all communications with the Challenge sponsors. Participants will also need to provide the name, affiliation, and contact information of all other individuals competing in this Challenge on behalf of an Entity. All such individuals must certify they have read and understand and agree to abide by the official eligibility criteria, participation rules, and requirements for the Challenge as stated in this announcement.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get support for integration into the network! Please direct any questions about this initiative to NEIODSHI@nei.nih.gov.
• The University of Nottingham is hosting a workshop on “How to be FAIR with Data Standards” Nov. 26-27 in the Nottingham Council House. More information, the two-day agenda and a registration link is available here.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 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 is now open!
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 — Dynamic Mapping Tools: Keeping Up to Date with Vocabulary Changes (Melanie Philofsky, Hanan Shorrosh)
Tuesday — Evaluating Synthea: Comprehensive Analysis of a Leading Synthesized Medical Record Generator (Zach Wagner)
Wednesday — Estimation of Causal Effects under Treatment Misclassification: A Semi-Parametric Bias Correction Framework with Application to Vaccine Effectiveness Study (Qiong Wu)
Thursday — Predicting the risk of new onset of type 2 diabetes following exposure of Statin within patient with coronary artery disease (Septi Melisa)
Friday — Aggregating and harmonizing registry databases for comparative analyses – lessons learnt (Eva-Maria Didden)
Job Openings
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