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#881

Hello everyone

My name is Rafael Duarte Paes and I am from São Paulo, Brazil.

I have a professional bachelor degree in pharmaceutical sciences and I am specialist in oncology. I had worked as a hospital pharmacist for 12 years when I changed my career and began working in IT as a data curator in a healthcare group (Oncoclínicas).

Since I started working there, I was involved in different projects. For example, one of the last projects that I was involved was to help developing a data lake, more specifically the data lake with clinical insights. This data lake serves as an input for other teams and its content can give directions to decision makers. Nowadays, we are renewing this data lake, looking towards a voabulary harmonization and possibly a partnership in projects.

I am new in the group, so i am still getting familiar with the nomenclature and community.

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#882

Hello All, My name is Edwin Cruz, I recently joined Columbia DBMI department as a Software Developer. I have over 15 years focused on Java, Spring, Hibernate and extensive front end experience coding and designing UX/UI. Looking forward to making contributions.

#883

I have been a long-time listener for a while - I attended the International Medical Informatics Conference in Lyon in 2019, and first met researchers who were passionate about OHDSI and OMOP. Now I’m working at Snowflake as a Solution Architect in the Professional Services team. I am excited that Odysseus is working to make Snowflake a supported method in many of the tools, and I’m working on an internal demo materials that will help healthcare organizations understand how to implement OMOP CDM within Snowflake. I’m looking forward to being more involved in the coming year!

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#884

Hello, I’m Nate. My background is in data architecture (cross domain), and I was recently introduced to the OHDSI community through a couple CDM ETL projects. I’d like to learn more so I am attending the conference on Friday. While I’m still learning, I was hoping to make some last minute connections to introduce myself in person on Friday. My areas of interest include:

  • Analytics operations: topics such as scale and reproducibility to get data solutions running well in production.
  • I’m also interested in understanding and contributing to any data management libraries. I’ve only started learning, at first it seems like many functional areas such as data summarization, data quality, etc. are handled by full stack GUI applications. I’m really interested to meet any teams working towards common data management libraries.
#885

Hello everyone, I’m Ivona and I study Epidemiology at the Ludwig-Maximillians-University in Munich, Germany for my Master’s degree. I am a working student at the Helmholtz Munich since 2020 and work for the German Center for Diabetes Research in the areas monitoring and data management. We are currently working on making our data even more open and FAIR by transforming our studies on different aspects of Diabetes (e.g. prevention, therapy, long-term development) into the OMOP CDM. Currently, work is done on the PLIS (prediabetes-lifestlye-intervention) study that is about personalized diabetes prevention through different lifestyle programs including diet and physicial activity.
We are very excited about the potential of the OMOP CDM to build infrastructures to make data more usable and sustainable and provide better research and health care. For now, I have a lot to ask, learn and read about how best to lay out the ETL process and am very looking forward to interacting with the OHDSI community!

Best
Ivona

#886

Hello,
I am Nathan NSHAKIRA, at Kabale University in Southwestern Uganda, nestled between Rwanda and Congo; next to the only natural homes for mountain gorillas! I am a Public Health Specialist, in the School of Medicine, involved in teaching research methods and promoting research practice at the University. my core interests in OHDSI are: a) accessing databases for academic and applied research; b) supporting the transition of health data from paper to electronic records; and c) training in data use for decision making at various levels of health systems

#887

Hi everyone,

I’m Kavya, currently working as an Analyst in Global Value Web. and I recently started working in OHDSI. and mainly involves in OMOP Standardized Vocabularies, Mapping various patient database to OMOP data model. I Am a kind of curious person to learn the new things. my main area of interest would be OHDSI vocabularies.
Before Joining the GVW, I worked as a Research associate in clinical research organization.
Thank you everyone!

#888

Hello, good afternoon, cordial Slaudo, my name is Rafael Brango Ayazo, a Colombian doctor, passionate about artificial intelligence, big data, I belong to a think tank on artificial intelligence in medicine aipocrates.org, I would like to help the community carry out studies, write articles on research, prototypes in AI for the field of health.
I like to cook and read books

#889

Hello, I’m Marko Čavlina and I work as data analyst in the Croatian Institute of Public Health , with background in sociology.
I came here to observe and learn and facilitate the transfer of our data to OHDSI standard.

Thanks,
Marko

#890

Hey, I’m Dara Kharabi. I’m the Product Lead for Data at a company called Rearc.

We’re working on helping pharma companies integrate RWE/RWD into their drug development processes more effortlessly, and we think the work OHDSI is doing is instrumental to this work. My goal is to learn as much as I can about OHDSI, OMOP, and tools like Atlas, so that my team at Rearc can figure out how we can contribute as well.

Nice to meet y’all, and please don’t hesitate to message me if you’d like to talk!

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#891

Hello dear friends! I’m Jevgenija (pronounced as “Yevgeniya”) and I work as a data engineer in the Centre of Hematology, Oncology and Transfusiology in Lithuania. I’ll be implementing the OMOP CDM in the Centre’s project, but I haven’t had any experience with the OMOP standard yet, so I consider myself a newbie. :slight_smile: I want to do this job as well as possible, so I’m grateful for this forum and the OHDSI Youtube channel. Happy to meet you all!

#892

Hi all,

I’m Bill Wood, I work within an NHS shared data and analytics service working for all London Integrated Care Boards.

My role is an ever changing mix of data and solution architecture, project management, product management, 3rd line technical support, account management and occasional SQL and technical developer.

Currently I am supporting a project that requires us to map EMIS and TPP SystmOne primary care
/ general practitioner data to a common ontological model. OMOP has been considered as a good candidate option for the common model. I’m wondering if anyone has already undertaken a mapping to OMOP from either (or both!) of the EMIS IM1 or TPP Strategic Reporting extracts?

I’ve taken a brief look already at the very helpful wiki on ETL best practices, and will doing plenty more reading still.

#893

Hello, my name is Henrique Neves, I’m a Project Analyst and Researcher in the relationship between Health and IT.
I have a Master’s degree in Health Informatics and my research area is about decision-making facilitators in Health.
It’s a pleasure to join this community!
I’m open to talk about this!

#894

@BillWood hey Bill - welcome to OHDSI!

yes, Odysseus have done these data sets before - please feel free to ping me in private message or by email at gregory.klebanov@odysseusinc.com

#895

Hi @ivona , welcome to the OHDSI world. You might want to check out the OHDSI Germany chapter that meets monthly, led by @inesreinecke from Dresden University.
You can find it unter the “Chapter Europe” as a separate channel. Just join by going through the workgroups admission form and ping Ines so that she can add you to the invite.
~mik

#896

Hello OHDSI,

My name is Yushy. I’m a doctor from New Zealand taking time off clinical work to do a PhD at The University of Melbourne. I work with data analytics, predictive modelling, and health economics. I’m looking forward to joining this community - both contributing and learning!

#897

How do I get a log in to atlas?

#898

I’m Dr Alan Beckles. My undergrad and grad degrees are in Electrical Engineering and I have an MD. I currently work as a Consultant in Machine Learning EngineeringData Scientist in Healthcare using Wallaroo for managing the ML Model Lifecycle and John Snow Labs/Spark NLP as a healthcare data science platform. I have a major interest in Causal Modeling and would like to have access to observational datasets to develop and deploy Causal Models.

#899

Hi everybody,
I m Linard, a mathematician/statistician interested in improving and analysing aspects of the practice of medical statistics in healthcare. I have a Bsc, Msc and PhD in math, and am now working in a Swiss cohort as a biostatistician. Currently I am most interested in variable and complexity selection and its empirical analysis in order to improve my workflow in the long term, but I am also interested in causal approaches to observational data.
Happy to meet you all!

#900

Hello Everyone,
I am M R Sai Dileep from Global-Value-Web. I am new to this OHDSI Community.
I have done my PG Diploma in Data Science and I am an MTech Graduate in Software Engineering. I will be interested in ETL , OMOP Common data model and ATLAS
I am willing to learn more from the community.

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