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#438

Good day, my name is Mark Seal. I work at Cherokee Health System where currently I wear many hats as an interface specialist, SQL admin and software developer. Currently I am automating the ETL process from the NextGen EHR into the OMOP format and loading it to the All of US program using C# and TSQL.

In my former life I was a back end developer and data architect for USSI, a Meter Data Management enterprise software company, leveraging Java, Scala, Python and PostgreSQL.

When I am not transforming coffee into code, I am out on a Disc Golf course, hiking or gardening.

I learned of this forum when I met @Christian_Reich and @krfeeney at the HRSA conference this past week.

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#439

Hello everyone! I’m a long time lurker but am hoping to get more involved in my new position. I’m a Senior Health Information Systems Specialist (contractor) with the U.S. Agency for International Development. I’m working specifically on HIV and will be assisting our country teams with design and deployment of health management and reporting systems–possibly including but not limited to EHR systems, community health outreach systems, and more general district and provincial level reporting systems. I look forward to contributing to the OHDSI journey and seeing how the incredible work OHDSI has been doing can translate to improving the health of some of the world’s most vulnerable inhabitants.

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#440

Hi Maura,

I found OHDSI just 10 some hour ago and have the strong feeling that I should become a member. I am a Rheumatologist, retired since three years. My focus has always been autoimmune systemic diseases, in lab and hospital. I also co-founded the Belgian-Flamish Ligue for Chronic Inflammatory Connective tissue Diseases (= auto-immune systemic diseases). Besides this I was vey interested in electronic data registration and programmed my own EPR. Finally, medical terminology and ontology got my special interest because “conditio sine qua non” for good data registration, communication and analysis. But as a day has only 24 hours, my terminology activities only started since I retired as a clinician. I started translation work as a volunteer for the Belgian Snomed NRC. As I saw the immense work that must be done to translate the all Snomed database, I decided to write a program to support this activity. When some months later I joined the Belgium Snomed consortium, they asked me to go on with that program. Since 10 months we are running a POC in Dutch and French, and we hope to go for the real thing probably sept-oct.

This is in a nut shell how I am involved in medical terminology.

Looking to your organization, I find an environment that has the possibilities to get a better idea about the exact position of Snomed in the global terminology environment and also to meet people for fundamental discussion of basic issues, so often overlooked by hard workers, and ending in regrettable build-in defects, often difficult to correct.

What I can bring to OHDSI? I do not know yet, but I hope you and others will clarify this question in the time coming. I surely will be glad to discover it!

Best regards

Michel Walravens

#441

@miwal: Welcome to the family. What SNOMED problems are you alluding to? It’s perfect! :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

I am leading the vocabulary group, and having more hands on deck to diagnose problems and fix them sounds wonderful to our ears.

#442

Hello Friends,

I am Archana Handu and currently a BI Developer in analytical team at Penn State Health , Hershey. I have been working mainly on Qlik Projects. our main initiatives so far were for Revenue Cycle & Quality & Safety teams.

I am focused on learning machine learning and applying such skills in upcoming projects.

Thank You.

#443

Hello, all.

I am Kate Weber - I am a Sr Data Analyst for the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. What started as a side project to try to extract concepts from our (largely text) health histories with NLP tooling has turned into an all-consuming interest in consistent, computable ways to represent that information. I am especially keen on using graph database tools alongside machine learning technology to investigate communities of patients.

I need to bolt this information to a source of consistent truth and have been flailing at UMLS in general and SNOMED-CT/RxNorm in particular. They, in conjunction with OMOP, seem like an ideal foundation for our budding clinical data warehousing efforts. But now you can see how scope is blowing out of control.

I hope to watch and listen and get a good foundation in OHDSI’s tools so I can build the second draft of my Health History dataset over them. I feel as though I’m barely treading water but am optimistic that everything will lock together and make perfect sense. Soon. Probably. Until I realize I didn’t get it at all and have to rinse and repeat again.

Regards,

Kate

Representing OMOP in a graph database
#444

Welcome @ahandu! I was just at the NCQA Digital Quality Summit last week with @bnhamlin. We’re very eager to grow the “OHDSI for Quality” world. As you get your feet wet, let’s make sure we stay connected. Hope to see you on an OHDSI community call soon!

Welcome @Kate_Weber! This is a fascinating and timely initiative. I have some friends in the NLP space who are dabbling with OMOP for dental data. Perhaps there is an opportunity to ring fence likeminded folks into a working group that can help share expertise? I remember @Vojtech_Huser and @benomark were dabbling in OMOP for dental data as well. Seems like a great place to grow the community. Let us know how we can support you!

#445

@krfeeney YES PLEASE!!!

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#446

Welcome, @Kate_Weber to the OHDSI community. I just wanted to point you to the NLP WG (https://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:workgroups:nlp-wg#) which is looking at the use of textual information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for observational studies under the OHDSI umbrella. The group meets monthly and may be a good community to work with as you go through your project.

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#447

Hi everyone… Happy to join this forum… I am a Magento Ecommerce Website developer.

#448

Hello Everyone,

My name is Shravani Priya and I am an experienced ETL/Informatica Developer with Health Care Data. I had recently graduated from Villanova University. I am very much excited to start my work with Odysseus Data Services Inc as a Big Data Engineer from United States. I shall be mostly working on ETL code Development. At this point of stage I shall be learning more from the community, rather than contributing. Looking forward to learn and collaborate with you people.

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#449

Hi everyone,

My name is Dylan Kady. I am a Senior Financial Analyst working for Johnson & Johnson within the supply chain organization. While I do not currently work in an OHDSI related role, I am completing my MPH in Epidemiology at Rutgers University. I look forward to getting to know the OHDSI community and exploring the resources available.

When I am not working or attending school at night, I enjoy teaching tennis and playing the guitar. My fiance and I also enjoy heading down to the beach (Asbury Park, NJ). Wish us luck as we navigate through wedding planning!

#450

Hi Everyone,

I’m Thanuj(TJ) and I am very much new to this community and the model. I am a Data Enthusiast working as Sr.Big data Engineer for “Odysseus Data Services INC” who are primarily focused and excelled in collaborating with OHDSI, OMOP CDM and its implementation for needed partners. Thanks to @gregk for giving me this opportunity to work with them and @Dave.Barman for helping me out to explore this community. I am very much happy and excited to join this dynamic platform to learn, participate and Innovate. Looking forward to discover more and contribute more.

Best Regards,
Thanuj Shiva Kumar

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#451

Welcome @Eva_Joseph, @priya, @DylanKady and @ThanujShivaKumar! I hope you can join us for next week’s community call on Tuesday at 12pm ET

Details to join are here:
https://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=projects:ohdsi_community

#452

Sure @MauraBeaton , Thank you !

#453

Hello,

I am Troy Heninger. I am Director of Data Governance and Data Quality at St. Luke’s in Idaho. I have been around data for many years but healthcare data is new to me. There is clearly much more to learn and the mission, vision and values of the organization are easy to get behind. Though I am not yet quite sure how it’s all related, yet…….

#454

Hello, I’m Jeff Reed working at the American College of Surgeons. As a data architect and ETL specialist for the National Cancer DataBase (NCDB), I work with NAACCR, CDC, STORE and the AJCC primarily to gather and report on Cancer data. I am looking for additional supporting data to facilitate the tools we provide our analysts and the research communities. I am looking forward to the discovery and collaboration possibilities within this group!

#455

Hi, I am Daniel Capurro. I am a Chilean MD and PhD in Biomedical Informatics. My overarching research interest is the reutilization of routinely collected clinical data to generate new knowledge. In this particular space, I am interested in the use of digital phenotypes to create patient cohorts. These cohorts can then be used to measure quality of care, simulate clinical trials, serve as classifications for supervised machine learning and so on.

I recently moved to the University of Melbourne where there is interest in using OMOP as a common data model for health research here in Australia. I see this as an opportunity to test digital phenotyping methods in a broad set of datasets.

#456

Hi all. My name is Ed. I’m an intensive care physician in London, UK. I’m currently on a research sabbatical in clinical data science (my research focus is sepsis). I contribute to a collaborative of 5 major research centres for ICU research in the UK. We aggregate data to a central store and are now migrating to the OHDSI data model. I look forward to engaging with and learning from the broader OHDSI community.

If there are any other researchers here who are UK based, I would be really interested to hear your thoughts on UK specific quirks/solutions with OHDSI.

#457

Hello everyone,

My name is Mitch Conover. I just (today) joined Janssen Research & Development’s Epidemiology Analytics group where I’ll be working with @ericaVoss and @Patrick_Ryan, among many other talented OHDSI collaborators. I’m excited to interact more with the OHDSI tools and community. I’m especially looking forward to attending this year’s OHDSI Symposium.

I completed my PhD and postdoctoral work in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My focus was in pharmacoepidemiology with an emphasis on methods for observational research and database work. My dissertation work focused on assessing the validity of using all-available database history to characterize patients within U.S. Medicare claims data. Broadly speaking, my primary professional goal is to advance the validity and impact of scientific research conducted using observational data sources. I think that can be accomplished by working together to develop study design and analytic methods, as well as broadening the field’s understanding of which questions can and cannot be addressed using these data.

On the personal side, I love music of all kinds, new and old (though anything released between 1969-1971 holds a special place in my heart) and try to travel as much as I can.

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