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#861

Hello everyone!

I’m Nick and I’m a Clinical Immunologist and Clinical Informatician located in Virginia, USA. My research interests have focused on identifying computable features which enable early diagnosis and monitoring of patients with immunological disorders. Over the past 8 years, I worked as an Immunologist at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine where I also served as an Associate Chief Information Officer over data ops, and have recently moved to Virginia to build a Division of Clinical Informatics, drive the formation of a rural learning health system along the Blue Ridge Mountains and continue computational research aimed at improving outcomes for my patients. I hope that all of the above will involve leveraging OMOP and OHDSI tools at my new institution LUCOM.

Lastly, I also enjoy sunsets and long bike rides in the mountains : ). I’m excited to join this fabulous group and learn/contribute!

-Nick

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#862

Hi everyone! I am Tofunmi, currently a graduate student in health policy at Stanford. I am an MD and keenly interested in how data can be broadly used to improve healthcare outcomes. I also work as a research assistant in the Ross lab where we build applied predictive models for PAD.

Previously, I worked with Nigam Shah and mentored 4 high school students to use publicly available data to estimate the impact of reopening orders on covid-19 hospitalizations in the US, at the height of the pandemic.

Currently, I am searching for an industry internship opportunity this summer that blends the use of ML and healthcare data. Please let me know if you have any suggestions. Happy to chat further.
I am also looking forward to contributing to this community!

Thank you,
Tofunmi Omiye

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#863

Hello! I’m Dhikrullah, a graduate of Optometry and Vision Science. I’m currently undertaking a clinical data science course on Coursera and I happened to come across OHDSI as one of the common data models. I’ll like to explore the features and possibilities of the platform to advance my knowledge in the field of clinical data science and health informatics.

#864

Good to see you here, Tofunmi.

#865

Hi all,

I am Sam, data analyst from FinnGen working on mapping non-standard drug codes to standard drug codes. I also started to work on ATLAS.

I am interested in software development, especially expanding the scope of Drugmapping tool to much more drug mappings. I have browsed these forums and learned a lot from your interactions.

I felt really happy to see such enthusiastic people exchanging and helping each other out. I hope I will carry this spirit with me for the rest of my life .

#866

Hello everyone,

I’m Yizhe Xu. I am a 2nd year postdoc from the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) at Stanford, advised by Dr. Nigam Shah. Before coming to Stanford, I received my PhD in Population Health Science with an emphasis on biostatisitcs from the Univeristy of Utah. I am interested in the estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects and the identification of optimal individualized treatment rules using randomized controlled trial and observational data. My interests in statistical methods are causal inference, semiparametric and nonparametric statistics, and machine learning methods.

Given my background in applied statistics and my passion in benchmarking and applying state-of-the-art statistical methods to biomedical research, I would like to contribute to the OHDSI community in the following asepects: 1) calibrating scientific best practices with refined or advanced approaches, 2) developing off-the-shelf software that incorporate the best practice for analyzing real-world data (the Pateint Level Prediction (PLP) R package from Jenna Reps is a perfect example for me), and 3) answering important healthcare-related questions and provide insightful evidence to the healthcare community. At this point, I am still getting to know about this community, but being able to run my analyses with standard codes across various sites is awesome, and I am exicited to explore more!

When I am not busy with work, I like to go hiking with family and friends. I also enjoy travling and cooking when I have the time.

#867

Hi all!

I’m Franky. I am currently working as a Senior Pharmacist at Institute of Mental Health, Singapore. I am also an incoming Master of Science in Applied Health Sciences Informatics student at the John Hopkins University. Looking forward to learn more about observational health data science and contribute to the OHDSI community!

#868

Hi Everyone, I am se yong Jekal. I am working at Samsung Medical Center, and I am in charge of building the CDM system.

As the hospital opened a new CDM in July, I found this site while surfing the web for related sites. I don’t know much about CDM, and I’m in an early stage of introduction, so please help me out in the future.

thank you

#869

Hi all,

I’m Mike. I’m a Clinical Paediatric Pharmacist by background but now mostly work as Research Analyst for Swansea University, UK using anonymised, linked national data for Wales.

I’m often involved in. Collaborative research with the other UK nations and abroad and want to learn more about this subject to help with future research.

#870

My name is Holt Oliver MD PhD. I am working on mapping concepts related to CKD and transplant for NIH trials and a clinical transplant projgram.

#871

Hi!

My name is Isabel Olaya. I am a bioengineering student in Colombia. I am currently working on a project to structure the databases of a hospital here. I am interested in learning more about the OMOP CDM for standardizing and working with our data and to eventually use OHDIS tools and best practices for developing new research.

#872

Hi everyone,
My name is Suhan Rai, and I’m currently pursuing my post graduation in MD Radiodiagnosis from JSS Academy of higher education and research.
I am working on project that require integration of health care data with CNN and NLP to develop better clinical decision tools at the present. I have a keen interest in working with data and seeing firsthand it’s potential unravel in our increasingly digital world.

#873

Hi All,
I am Parthiban, from Global Value Web, Chennai, India
At Global Value Web (GVW) , we handle end-to-end patient value chain data. Working with ODHSI Applications and OMOP framework to bring standardization and Analytical insights into Indian Patient data is equally challenging and exciting . India’s patient data landscape is complex, hugely diverse in Data structures, Formats and lots of paper processes
Looking forward to learn from Experts who have solved similar problems and able to create valuable research that can benefit whole community
Regards
Parthiban SD
VP, Innovation

#874

Hi All - I am very happy to be part of OHDSI community. I am healthtech startup founder and we are helping digital health company launch faster with our DevTools. Happy to share our learnings, I look forward to learning from the larger community.

Mehul

#875

Hi ODHSI community,

I’m Dale, a Population Health fellow in the NW of England. I am working to help implement a Trusted Research Environment as we integrate care systems in the NHS.

We are starting to convert our Data to OMOP’s CDM to improve interoperability and the power of our TRE.

We are keen to form a network with other NHS folk who are working to convert trust level data onto the CDM

#876

Hi OHDSI members,

My name is Jeffrey Scherrer. I am an epidemiologist at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. I work with VA data, our own Virtual Data Warehouse and commercial data resources. I joined because it looks like this group is pushing observational research methods forward! My research areas are focused on the opioid epidemic, health outcomes in mental illness and risk factors for dementia.

I look forward to learning.

Jeff

#877

Hi, everyone!
My name is Deborah, I´m a pediatrician from Brazil and I’ve worked with Health Information Systems for a long time.
Currently I work in the Health Department of São Paulo City, Vital Statistics and Congenital Anomalies Registry.
I’m new to the OHDSI community and I hope to learn a lot here.

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#878

Hi everyone,

My name is Gabriel Albertin and I’m a computer engineering student at PUC Campinas, I’m doing my first internship at a research institute, which has projects focused on the health area.

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#879

Hello everyone
My name is Greici and currently I am finishing up my PhD in Nursing. Actually I am part of the multicenter research: “Evaluation of nursing care for patients with COVID-19 in Brazilian university hospitals”, where I develop predictive models of hospitalization of patients infected with COVID-19 in Intensive Care Unit, working with artificial intelligence and precision nursing.
I met the OHDSI community recently and I think it is the way forward for open science.
I hope to learn a lot from you.

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#880

Hello!

I’m Gabriel, a family medicine doctor in São Paulo, Brazil. I work part time in our public health system and part time in a recently opened walk-in clinic. I’m very interested in clinical records (particularly open notes and problem oriented clinical records) and electronic health records. I’ve just started, with some of the people above me here, a six week course on OHDSI.

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