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#651

Hi, I am Tontel Obene. I was the lead Epidemiologist/Evaluator for Mississippi Urban Research Center (MURC), currently recuperating from an accident I sustained on the job. There, I monitored and analysed data on heart disease and stroke prevention programs in the Mississippi Delta to find out their impact on the community. Mississippi Urban Research Center provides both basic and applied research into problems that plague urban communities and make this data available to policy makers.

I would like to take part in any collaborative research work. I am proficient in SPSS and SAS, but working on R. I strongly believe in the concept that “there is no I in team”.

Open to lending my expertise in whatever way I can to impact lives.

#652

Hello, I am Filipa, from Portugal.
I would be very pleased to have the chance to work with you on this challenging project. Can you help me to discover how?

Please find my short professional bio below:

Filipa Duarte-Ramos is an assistant professor at the Social Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal, since 2012, where she teaches since 2001.
She holds a PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology awarded by the University of Lisbon in 2012, a MSc in Epidemiology awarded by the Nova Medical School of Lisbon in 2002, and graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1994 by Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon.

Filipa’s research interests are related to the investigation of health determinants, in particular the study of the positive and negative outcomes from the use of medicines by the population. She is also interested in the study of drug utilization in special populations or conditions and health outcomes research.

Filipa currently serves as a member of the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance at the European Medicines Agency (ENCePP – EMA) and was part of the Special Interest Group in Drug Safety in Pregnancy. She represents the Faculty of Pharmacy in the plenary meetings of the ENCePP since 2011.

Filipa currently serves as Epidemiology Expert of the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

She is coordinator and researcher at OPSS (Health System Portuguese Observatory) and member of Epidemiology Research Unit (EPIUnit)- Oporto Public Health Institute (ISPUP)

#653

@Gillian.Hall, @FDuarteRamos: Welcome to the family. Please scroll up a little bit. @MauraBeaton tells you how to come in and get engaged. Good luck.

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#654

Hi Everyone,

I am Dalia Dawoud. Currently working as Scientific Adviser at NICE in the UK. My interest is in economic evaluations and use of RWD to inform cost effectiveness analysis. I have experience in systematic reviews, network meta-analyses and economic modelling as well.

I look forward to actively contributing in literature reviews, study design and writing research papers for publications.

BW
Dalia

#656

Hello! I am Akari from Japan.
I am a high school student, and I study several traditional medicines.

I joined the OHDSI community because I thought this would be an essential tool to show and analyze the complicated and detailed information of the traditional medicine to use as evidence for better decisions.
I am taking the IBDP course and the data analytics just drove my attention.
I just started learning about the OHDSI and OMOP, and I am not sure what I can contribute as a newbie but I am looking forward to learn more!

#657

Hello all!

I am Thanos, my background is electrical engineering and the last 3 years I am part of the Vivante Health Software and Data Science team based in Greece. We are looking to find the best way of structuring claims/EMR data and later on questionnaire/survey data for analytics and predictive modeling. I m really happy to join this huge open source project/team and looking forward to contribute after I understand what is going around here :). So for me the next days is reading and testing out some of the tools. I ll mostly focus on CDM and the ETL processes.

Many thanks to all of you!
Thanos

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#658

Welcome @TOBENE, @ddawoud, @jopuura, @akajpn, @thanos_vidakis

Some of you joined in on yesterday’s community calls (community call take place every Tuesday at 12pm ET) which is a great place to get started. If you’d like to join upcoming calls, more 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 - 18May2020

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 :slight_smile:

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#659

This is very helpful. Thank you so much! :+1:

#660

Thank you very much, Maura!

#661

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

#662

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

#663

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.

#664

Hello all,

I am Rico, currently a lecturer in School of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia. interest to learn about OHDSI

#665

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!

#666

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 :slight_smile:

#667

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.

#668

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

#669

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!

#670

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

#671

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/

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