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#777

Hi everyone, my name is Kelvin Memeh and I am an Endocrine and General surgeon with an academic interest in surgical outcomes and health economic research. I am currently completing a Masters’s degree in Public Health Sciences with an emphasis in Health Data Science. I have been involved in some clinical studies using the SEER and NCDB databases and have enjoyed the insights from those “population-level” datasets. I have also published some health economics research.
Given my clinical and research background, I am interested in finding evidence-based solutions to clinical questions especially pertaining to endocrine and neuroendocrine disorders, using large datasets.
My contribution to the community will be in the areas of clinical research designs, data analysis, and writing research papers.
When I am not researching or operating, I am catching up with Health tech news, experimenting with cooking/recipes, running, or relaxing with a glass of Cabernet or Bourbon.

I am happy to connect! Please shoot me an email on my LinkedIn or on Twitter @drmemeh

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#778

Hello! I’m Rebeca. Currently I’m based in the Bay Area (San Francisco, California). I am a Clinical Data Analyst on @katy-sadowski 's team at TrialSpark. I’m interested in learning more about OHDSI and ways I can contribute!

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#779

Hi! I am Huiwen Xu, PhD, a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at University of Rochester Medical Center. My research focuses on long-term care, health policy, health disparities, and machine learning with large medical claims and advanced statistical methods. I currently serve on the Executive Committee of AcademyHealth Methods and Data Council, Board of Directors of China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS), and Analytics Core of Cancer and Aging Group.

I look forward to learning more about the community and build potential collaboration! Twitter: @Dr_HuiwenXu, or email: Huiwen_Xu@urmc.rochester.edu. Thank you!

#780

Hi Everyone! My name is Tomasz Mikołajczyk, I’m MPharm and a statistical programmer working in RWD field. I’m based in Warsaw in Poland. I have 3 years of community pharmacy practice and 3 years of experience in observational studies. I’m looking forward to learn more about OMOP CDM standards.

#781

Kelvin / Receca / Huiwen / Tomasz - welcome to OHDSI! Looking forward to working with you in the community, any questions - please ping us on forums or me directly.

Greg

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#782

Hi OHDSI community!
My name is Serena Ciaburri and I am a Junior Data Scientist. I have a background in Software Engineering and I recently started working with OMOP data.
I am very happy to be part of this community, looking forward to learning and contributing.

I wish you all a very nice day,
Serena

#783

Hello all !

My name is Dan King. I seek advice for how to build an OMOP-friendly pancreatic cancer database.

At Stanford, I maintained an excel spreadsheet of patients with pancreatic cancer and their outcomes, and then moved this into a REDCap database, so I am relatively familiar with those strategies.

I will soon be taking a new job elsewhere and will be building a new pancreatic cancer database there from scratch. I would eventually like to compare the patients in my database with the patients in other groups around the country. I am poorly informed about the topic, but was told by someone that REDCap is a relational database and OMOP is EAV model, and therefore not compatible with REDCap, so maybe REDCap isn’t best for this. On the other hand, given the powerful tools of the OMOP data model and ATLAS search, I am wondering if there is a ‘best practices’ guide for how to build a database so that I can later integrate it into a larger ATLAS search, to compare my patients with a much larger population.

I would be very happy to discuss this in more detail and welcome any input.

Many thanks and thank you for welcoming me to the group,
Dan King MD PhD

#785

Hi

I’m John Robinson and I am a DBA at Harvey Walsh Limited, as a company, we analyse hes (hospital episodes and statistics) data from the NHS UK.

Currently we are just starting out on performing a mapping of the hes data to the OMOP CDM and as such will be using tools provided by OHDSI, such as White Rabbit, Rabbit in a Hat and Usagi.

My main task in the mapping will be to create the ETL for the flow of data, we use SQL Server as ouir main database type and run all our apps on Windows.

#786

Hi everyone,

My name is Brady Post. I research health economics as an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the department of health sciences.

My research focuses on health care payment policy (especially CMS/Medicare/Medicaid). I am interested in hospital systems, health care costs, and the health care workforce. I am especially interested in hospital-physician integration and other topics related to health care consolidation. I like causal inference and econometrics.

I have experience using big data to answer policy-relevant research questions (Medicare claims, commercial claims, etc). I am interested in finding collaborators. Hope to learn a lot from you all - please feel free to reach out!

#787

Hi
I am Dr Yadev, a surgeon and a clinical Epidemiologist from India. I am interested in collaborative work and writing.

#789

Hi Maura and all!
My name is Sewar Shuibat and I am a researcher and MRI technologist. for two years, I worked as a clinical researcher at Boston University at the department and lab of Anatomy and Neurobiology, the same department I graduated my master’s degree in Bioimaging Sciences from. My previous work experience was mainly in the medical imaging realm, as I worked with CT, mammography, radiography, and finally, MRI. Currently, I am preparing to start my PhD applications in Clinical Psychology as I am interested to learn and apply fMRI in psychology research.
I am excited to join the OHDSI community and hope to be able to contribute in running psychology or neuroscience focused studies and writing research papers, as well as to connect with a community of similar interests to collaborate with and learn from.

When I’m not working, I like to explore new places, hike, and try or cook new foods.

#790

Hello OHDSI team!

My name is Nicola Gentili.
I work for the Healthcare Management of Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS “Dino Amadori”: an Italian Cancer Research Institute located in Romagna (near adriatic sea).
I have a computer science background. In the last few years I have joined the EHR2EDC project and Harmony Alliance: thanks to these great project I have head of OHDSI and now I’m here to know something new and understand how to implement OMOP CDM in my work context.

#791

Hello everyone! I am Vivian, a nurse with specialization in urgency and emergency in São Paulo / Brazil, I have worked in recent years as a specialist in health technology, population health management and clinical data in Health Insurance Companies. I am currently a business analyst in the data area with a focus in health informatics, and I’m excited to learn more about OMOP CDM and I’m very interested in being part of the community to acquire and share knowledge. My focus of interest at the moment is global health terminologies. Machine learning and big data analytics are my major fields of interest.
My email: enfvivianfurlan@outlook.com

Greetings to all

#792

Hello all! My name is Shawn, and I’m the training coordinator for the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) which harmonizes lots of patient records from around the US into OMOP for researcher access. The amazing and wonderful @krfeeney suggested I come learn more about OHDSI and meet the community.

I am actually quite new to all things EHR; my background is in CS/systems/bioinformatics (of a genomics flavor), but this past year my involvement in N3C has had me diving into the deep end with OMOP and the world of patient data in general.

All the best,
~Shawn

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#793

Hello, my name is Sheridan and I am a Business Intelligence (BI) Systems Developer at Sanford Health, USA. We are implementing OMOP CDM. I will be the key player preparing source data set for OMOP (we use Epic Clarity), but I am new to this model and hope to learn more via OHDSI Forums.

Nice to meet everyone!

Best regards,
Sheridan

#794

@SheridanZ Welcome to the Journey. Fee free to join the EHR WG lead by @MPhilofsky . It will be surely useful to you

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#795

Welcome, @SheridanZ!

Yes, exactly as Jose says. Please join the Electronic Health Record working group this Friday at 10am ET on MS Teams. Friday’s topic is based off our OKR key result to maintain a list of educational and collaborative resources on the OHDSI MS Teams site for those OMOPing data to the CDM. As a new community member, your insight will be helpful.

Instructions on obtaining a MS Teams account and joining the meeting:

Do you have an OHDSI Microsoft Teams account? If not, here’s The link for obtaining a Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) account from OHDSI.

Here’s the link for the EHR WG space on MS Teams.

#796

Thank you Melanie! I was able to join the Teams!! :grinning:

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#797

Hello everyone, my name is Jasmin Carus and I am working at the German University Hospital in Hamburg in the department of Cancer Research. Our cancer registry collects patient-related cancer data within the hospital according to a uniform national standard. These data serve as a basis for answering clinical questions and for supporting research projects in the oncological context. In order to facilitate data exchange with other research institutions without neglecting the necessary data protection, we are very interested in mapping our data to the OMOP CDM, especially to the oncology module of the CDM.
At the moment, we are still in the middle of the implementation. However, we would be pleased if, after the completion of the implementation, joint research projects could take place. The OHDSI community offers us many new impressions and innovative approaches and we would be happy to become part of this community and contribute to the OHDSI jouney.

Thank you for the warm welcome and best regards
Jasmin Carus

#798

Hello! My name is Juan and I am working in Bahía Software, an EHDEN certified SME based in NW Spain as an Innovation Project Manager. My work involves collaborating with other researchers and clinicians in R&D projects using the OMOP CDM and OHDSI tools.

My background is in medical physics (more on the device side than in the clinical research side). I hope I will learn more about OMOP and patient data through the forum.

Nice to meet you all!

Best,
Juan

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