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#901

Hi everyone!

My name is Emir Syailendra. I’m an M.D. from Indonesia. Currently, I’m doing my master’s degree in health informatics at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to my master’s, I worked as a general practitioner at a government hospital ER.

I’m interested in learning more about population-level estimation and patient-level prediction research, especially those related to cardiovascular (which I plan to take the residency after I finish my master’s). Furthermore, I’m also really interested in the FHIR-OMOP working group to help advance interoperability.

Very excited to join this community and learn a lot!

#902

Hi Everyone!

I’m Frank Biederich from Germany. For my last employer, Adobe Inc., I’ve led various projects in the domain of computer science, cloud transformation as well as international standardization & data modeling.

I’m curious to learn more about the OHDSI & EHDEN projects, in particular around the OMOP CDM, to better understand where I can be of any help. For the time being, I’ll start by listening in while reading a lot, I guess…

Thanks, Frank

#903

Hi all,

I’m Elvis Ndansi, Project Lead for DAC-Africa - a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the Design Analyze and Communicate (DAC) arm of the IDEV division, aimed at improving clinical trial informativeness in Africa - providing clinical trial protocol review services, strengthening of clinical trial regulatory pathways and improving on digital health and EHR implementation in Hospitals and research facilities. I am the founder & president of Unite For Health Foundation, a non-profit organization providing access to healthcare in underserved communities in Cameroon. My background is in clinical research and public health, and passionate about global health solutions.

I hope to help OHDSI by contributing to open-source projects through DAC-Africa. I am based in New Jersey.

#904

Hello, my name is Borim Ryu and I’m research assistant professor at Seoul National University BORAMAE Medical Center, South Korea.
Boramae Medical Center is the best public hospital in Seoul that leads the development of public health care and contributes to the improvement of people’s quality of life. (https://en.brmh.org/main/main.do)

Recently, our hospital’s EHR data was converted to OHDSI CDM version 5.4.

I am delighted to announce that our hospital is the first among many municipal hospitals in Seoul, Korea to establish OHDSI CDM! :smiley:

How can I officially register my institution as a Global OHDSI data partner?

I have also studied many researches using OHDSI CDM and presented papers. Along with the registration of our institution, I’d like learn more and participate as a collaborator on OHDSI community.

Thanks :slight_smile:

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#905

Hi Everyone, I’m Katherine Johnston, I’m a computer scientist with a background in clinical research data management, I work at the University of Cape Town in the Computational Biology Division for the H3ABioNet consortium and am now also part of the DS-I Africa Consortium eLwazi Open Data Science Platform project.

My experience and roles are mainly around phenotype data harmonisation, REDCap Administration and phenotype data collection standards development in Africa.
I recently connected with the INSPIRE network who I believe are championing the cause of OMOP CDM implementation in Africa. Part of our role within the DS-I Africa consortium is to support data harmonisation within research projects using secondary datasets which may cover health data, climate data, population surveillance data and medical image data. We are very new to OMOP and I would like to learn some more here so we can best support our research projects choosing data models for their data and ultimately make some good decisions for the open data science platform implementations.

#906

@Andrew, please note. Probably something I haven’t kept you informed about is the DS-I Africa [MADIVA Research Hub] project (African data science research receives major funding from the National Institutes of Health, USA – H3Africa) which is preparing data as we speak for use in OHDSI. APHRC has a hand in this and the vocabulary issues that we first talked with @mik about last week is a MADIVA thing. Spurred by MADIVA, APHRC has established a vocabulary WG which we will use as a clearinghouse for several projects when it comes to concept coding in OHDSI. In any event “Hi” @katherine!.

#907

My name is Casper Frederiksen. I am Data Manager in a danish group that focus on Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark). We have approximately 65.000 patients and several hundred variables collected from 4-5 main sources. At the moment we store all our data on a PostgreSQL server

My task is, partly, to help translate our data into OMOP. And, I need help! :slight_smile:

Especially, on how to map our tables variables to OMOP CMD. I know you have software to help with that. However, I would like to download (for example) csv files descriping the variables in the OMOP tables and mappping to for example ICD10. Because we work at a hospital, we need permission to install software.

Let me know if you have questions, suggestion etc.

Best regards,

Casper Frederiksen

#908

Description of OMOP CDM tables and variables

Help with mapping ICD10 to OMOP Standard Concepts

#909

Thank you Sir.

Cheers,

Casper

#910

Hello everyone!

My name is Esther and I am an Emergency Physician from Singapore working under the National University Health System at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. I am very new to coding and the use of OMOP. I have just learnt about this whilst I am here at Stanford as a visiting fellow. There is an amazing amount and breadth of information on your pages with a lot of amazing resources and opportunities.

May I ask if there is any resource or instructions on the steps an institution has to take in order to join the OMOP platform and what are the necessary manpower and funding requirements for such a venture?

I may have missed this information somewhere along my read but there was just too many interesting sharing to learn about.

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Esther

#911

Hello, my name is Hayden Spence and I work as a research management consultant. I have primarily worked with the Federal government of the United States in several of the executive level departments, and I feel fortunate to have gained extensive experience working with some of the nation’s largest healthcare operational and research data warehouses. During my work, I have found OMOP to be an extremely useful tool, and it has played a crucial role in many projects. I am passionate about contributing to OHDSI because I have seen how OMOP can help go from data to policy.

My partner and I live in Northern Virginia, but we both grew up in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. We enjoy traveling to see friends and family across the country and/or to live music. I am currently reading Suttree by Cormac McCarthy and Telling Stories with Data by Rohan Alexander (I’m always interested in a reading recommendations, so please feel free to send any my way).

My academic background is in Prevention Science, and I am looking forward to pursuing a PhD in Health Informatics or Epidemiology in the near future. Thank you all for building such a welcoming community and I look forward to contributing however I can.

#912

Hello my name is Moris and I am newcomer.

I have a passion in traveling, hiking and different sports activities. I am also enthusiastic about machine learning and artificial intelligence and it’s application in healthcare. I am a doctor and I work for Croatian Institute of Public Health. We are transitioning to OMOP common data model. I got the honor of mapping our codes to omop standard codes.

I hope this community will help me with guidance and tips on my jurney!

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#913

Hello, I am Min-Gyu Kim.

I am a medical doctor/graduate student in bioinformatics.

I will try to help the community in various ways, not confined to one.

I hope this community can help me through my journey as a researcher, and wish to help others in theirs.

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#914

Hi everyone,

My name is Yu Chen. You can also call me Victor. Currently I’m working as RWD Scientist in Roche China Medical to support deign, conduct, analysis and report the clinical studies utilize RWD. I’m focusing on observational studies, although we also use data from clinical trial for a secondary use. I think the OMOP standard and tool developed by OHDSI is very useful for RWD studies. I eager to learn everything about OMOP and OHDSI. I was once working as a statistical programmer in Pfizer to support Phase I-IV clinical trials, so I’m good in SAS but can also have some basic knowledge about python and shell language. I’m also learning R right now.

During my time off the work, I like watching movies and travelling. I also like cats. My wife and I raised 5 cats :cat2:

#915

Hello everyone,

My name is Naveen Kannan. I have a degree in Medicine in India (and am a licensed doctor in India as well). I’m pursuing a degree in Biomedical and Health Informatics at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. I currently work as a research assistant at CWRU.

I think that OHDSI’s community driven open source approach to health informatics and data science programming is the way to go forward with making sure that healthcare and observational data can have a positive impact on the healthcare outcomes of populations across the world. I would be very happy to learn and help in any way I can. I have knowledge of statistical programming and analytic, and I intend to learn more and disseminate knowledge back to the community as well.

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#916

Hey everyone!

I hope you’re all doing great! I’m thrilled to announce that I am now a part of our wonderful OHDSI family. I almost complete my master’s degree in Statistical Science at Duke University, and I couldn’t be more excited about the opportunities that lie ahead.

This summer, I have the incredible opportunity to work as an OHDA Intern with the amazing OHDA team at Johnson & Johnson. I’m particularly passionate about artificial intelligence and everything related to AI, from data analysis to making predictions. During my internship, I’ll also be delving into cutting-edge Bayesian Statistics and the most popular tech, GPT modelling for the OHDSI world.

If any of you would like to chat more about these topics or anything else, please feel free to shoot me a message. I’m always up for engaging conversations and learning from one another.

Thank you all, and here’s to an exciting journey together! :blush:

Cheers,
Elena

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#917

Hi everybody!

My name is Julia, and I am so excited to be a part of the OHDSI community! Currently, I am a rising fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Virginia. I am double majoring in Statistics and Global Public Health.

This summer I am lucky to be working as an OHDA Intern with the OHDA team at Johnson & Johnson. I am excited to learn more about OHDSI, and I would love to meet more people in this community!

#918

Hey everyone,
My name is Austin Cherian, and I’m really grateful to be a part of the OHDSI community. I’ve been searching tirelessly on the internet for research, community, and problems to satisfy my goal of one day becoming a public health data analyst. I recently graduated from Emory University with a bachelor’s degree in Quantitative science with a Biology concentration.
I would love to make connections and learn more about ways I can contribute to this vibrant community.

#919

Hi all, I am Neha, software engineer by profession and based in Massachusetts. I am here to learn the OHDSI tools, OMOP, CDM and data aspects in terms of healthcare systems. This is amazing community and I am looking forward to get involved and learn more.

#920

Hello, my name is Ben Bray. I am a medical doctor, epidemiologist and health data scientist. Looking to get involved in OHDSI again after a few years break.

@Christian_Reich I’d love to reconnect too if you’d like!

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