Hi Everyone, My name is Hugh Bowie. I am long time Merger Project Manager (ask about it) that has 25 years plus in Technology (do not code , sorry) and large implementations of ERP, PeopleSoft, Payroll and HR systems. I have had the good fortune to complete work for 15 % of the fortune five hundred doing those mergers and acquisitions. I have built 5 data warehouses and can show you the scars.
My education is continuing after my retirement in 2007. BSIT, MSIT, MHA, currently pursuing a Doctorate in Capella
University School of Nursing and Healthcare Sciences or a DHA Healthcare Quality Data and Analytics.
I stumbled across this organization while doing a research project for school and decided to join. I live in Southern Georgia and come from NYC born and raised.
Pleased to meet everyone and I hope to contribute something in the future.
Many Cheers
Hugh
Hello all,
I am Andrew, a data manager at Dell Medical School at UT Austin. We are upgrading our research systems and I am here to learn about OHDSI and the OMOP CDM. We are eager to learn from those who have converted their data lakes to CDM, what has worked, what has not, and all the rest!
Best regards,
Andrew
Hello all,
My name is Sam, and I own a healthcare consulting company in the US. I specialize in clinical registries, primarily working with medical specialty societies. Looking forward to learning more about OHDSI, and how I can use this framework to the benefit of my clients.
Hello all,
I am Rico, currently a lecturer in School of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia. interest to learn about OHDSI
Hello, I am Megan Branda, a statistician at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. I have been working with the OMOP CDM for over a year and have just completed collaborating on my first OHDSI protocol. I have been to the sites and taking many of the training material in this journey so far but now that I am about to do the data work I wanted to join the community so I could ask questions and see the history of knowledge that has been shared to assure I do this right.
Thank you!
Welcome @MeganBranda, @ricokurniawan, @SamWalters, @AndrewPayne, and @Hugh_Bowie!
A great place to get started is to join an OHDSI community call which take place every Tuesday at 12pm ET. Tomorrow’s meeting got cancelled, but you are welcome to join us the following Tuesday, June 9th. If you’d like to next week, or any upcoming call, details are available here: projects:ohdsi_community [Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics]
For more details about regular OHDSI meetings and how to get involved please check out the weekly OHDSI digest which is posted to the forums every Monday. The latest digest was posted here: Weekly OHDSI Digest - 1Jun2020
Finally, check out the ‘New to OHDSI’ tab on ohdsi.org for more information on how to get involved and lists of upcoming OHDSI meetings. All OHDSI meetings are open to anyone interested in getting involved, so please don’t hesitate to join in 
New here. I just learned about OHDSI from other groups I am a part of. I am from a completely different industry and have been solving technology problems in other industries for the past 15 years. I joined life sciences about a year and a half ago and have learned so much from the brilliant minds within the industry.
I recognize what this group is trying to accomplish and believe all intentions are great. Standards are a bit tricky and I believe there’s more success to be had leveraging flexible data integration models. I am here to learn more about the approach this group is taking and their thoughts on some of the more modern ways to make data interoperable.
Dear all,
My name is Leon Wolber and I am a graduate student at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. I am studying Business Intelligence & Smart Services.
Within the scope of my Master thesis I am working with electronic health records of heart failure patients. I am applying deep learning techniques to get new insights about the disease.
I am thrilled to become part of OHDSI, increase my knowledge and help out by contributing to the existing body of literature about heart failure.
Thank you,
Leon
Hi everyone!
I’m Giacomo. I’m a Data Engineer who is working on building an HL7 friendly Data Lake which aim to fill in an OHDSI database. It’s nice to work with healthcare data nowadays, it makes you feel very useful to the world.
I’m currently based in Bruxelles. If you wanted to have a brainstorming let me know!
Dr Aboudourazak AMADOU,
He is a Medical Doctor, MSL, Researcher, Health Insurance Consultant and Biostatistician.
CEO and Co-founder of EQUIMED GROUP S.A.R.L., Lomé, TOGO. Specialist Contributor at Sitetrail and Health Insurance Consultant at Gras SAVOYE Togo, he has worked in reputable clinics in Lomé and at Al Fikrah Management Consulting in UAE (Abu Dhabi).
Passionate and involved in epidemiological research he has participated in several studies and thesis at the University of Lomé. He is Author of the book “Social integration through education, school or family?”.
Recently Aboudourazak has started an ambitious project in the field of international business and cultural diversity for the empowerment of African young people through linking with their global counterparts.
ResearchGate Profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aboudourazak_Amadou
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-aboudourazak-amadou-420101161
Hi,
My name is Miguel, I am a PhD in applied mathematics and founder of MEDINREAL a startup developing AI solutions in healthcare. We collaborate with other institutions on the study of COVID19. I look forward to have more collaboration on different projects. I focus on interdisciplinary research, software development and research. It is a pleasure to be part of the community.
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/hisojomiguel/
Hello OHDSI Community,
I am an epidemiologist (PhD) with research focus in healthcare-associated infections. My expertise is in conducting observational studies to identify best treatment and prevention practices for bacterial infections. I am an Associate at the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
Look forward to learning and working with my fellow researchers in the awesome OHDSI community! Stay safe!
Best,
Rajeshwari
Hi,
I am manager of the RWE Data & Analytics team in the RWE Center of Excellence at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-cajigal-37038174/
I look forward to future collaborations and joining the OHDSI community!
Alejandro
Hi everyone!
I’m a resident doctor of Clinical Hematology working at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Porto (Porto, Portugal). I am also a researcher at the Population Health Research Domain (PopHealth) of the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS, Braga, Portugal).
I want to join the OHDSI Research Network and contribute for expanding health knowledge by creating RWE!
Thanks for the opportunity to be part of the OHDSI community
Hello everyone, my name is Alex Skates, and I am a data scientist at Roche, based across London and Basel. I am currently trying to use RWD (including but not limited to observational heath dbs) to benchmark the safety of a number of drugs, as well as build models of personalised risk of adverse events.
I am rather new to the field of epidemiology, and as such am hoping to learn as much as I can from what already seems like a rather knowledgeable and friendly group of people. I stumbled across OHDSI rather unexpectedly, and I’d like to get involved with the PLP working group and contribute where I can. I have substantial python experience, somewhat less R experience, and also a fair bit of SQL knowledge.
Outside of work, I rather enjoy rock climbing
Hello,
My name is a Alexandre Malouvier and I am a Director of Global Strategy, Digital Health at PRA Health Sciences. PRA is a contract reserach organization that heavily invested in real-world data. We own for example that health data of more than 290 M Americans.
I have been in the industry for more that 20 years, speacilizing early on in late-phase research and then real-world studies. I help our decentralized studies to gather real-world data from our patients.
Hello, I am Alan Coltri. I spent many years at Johns Hopkins doing integration work for the EHR and ancillary applications. We started out with entirely home grown systems in the 1990’s and have gradually migrated to commercial vendors. Epic, Soft etc.
Recently we have been working to capture and integrate the colossal level of detail being collected by modern systems, and to do so using standard coding systems so that the data becomes shareable - hence OHDSI.
I have been reading about OHDSI and its CDM, Vocabulary, and Tools for about a month and am impressed by its scope. My current challenge is mapping our internal system codes to concepts. Not - too bad, because most of our systems already have relationships to standard code systems, even if they use internal codes within their own databases.
I hope to learn from you all, and am excited about the prospect.
Hello everyone,
My name is Noah Engel and I work as a Data Analyst at Columbia University Medical Center.
I started working with the OMOP CDM in January 2019 at Vanderbilt University, where I served as a Data Scientist for the All of Us Research Project. In July 2019, I transitioned to my current DA role at CUMC where I develop tools to assess data quality for the All of Us Research Program and work with our data partners to improve EHR submissions.
I will be leaving my role at CUMC shortly to pursue medical education (MD) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine but I wanted to leave this comment in case anyone wanted further context on my profile down the line. I also hope to remain engaged with the OHDSI community in some capacity as I navigate my medical education.
Hi All,
my name is Nuno da Silva and I am working in a Portuguese Hospital. By training I am a biomedical engineer and have developed research in medical imaging and health data.
We currently evaluating the possibility of implementing OMOP CDM in my institution to boost research and collaborative work!
I am looking for some help to estimate the effort of implementing the OMOP CDM from the Hospital point of view. We have already a business intelligence team in our IT department.
In case someone would be available for a discussion, my email is nuno.asilva@hospitaldaluz.pt or nuno.andre.da.silva@gmail.com
Thank you