Ah a familiar face! Welcome Ben - good to e-see you 
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So nice to see you too Sarah!
Hi my name is Nick VanDuyne and I work for a large non-profit HIE in the New York CIty area. We are just beginning our journey with OMOP as a way to make it easier for researchers to potentially use our data f.
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My name is Hemalatha Elango, working as a Product Manager in a Healthcare IT company. Currently our focus in on Onclogy and planning to expand more. We are in the process of updating our current OMOP model version. I am here to get to know more about OMOP and get answers to my questions through this forum. From what I went through, this looks like an amazing group of people trying to help each other to solve problems
Hello, Everyone!
My name is Luther-King Fasehun, but everyone just calls me Luther. Quick background to my name: my Nigerian father read the book Strength to Love, by MLK Jr, the late American civil rights leader, and he loved the book so much that he gave me the compound name ‘Luther-King’ as my first name. 
I’m currently a Summer Intern at Janssen R&D (part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies), and my tasks are to support in the development of phenotype algorithms for some specific indications, using OHDSI’s ATLAS. My background is as a physician (I worked in Nigeria and the U.K.); then, I earned a Master’s in Healthcare Management and Economics from the SDA Bocconi in Italy, before moving back to Nigeria to work for an international healthcare non-profit. Now based in the United States, I’ve worked in academia and consulting, mainly providing research analytics and operations strategy support, and I am about wrapping up my M.S. thesis in Epidemiology at Temple University, where I was a two-term President of the Epidemiology & Biostatistics Students Association.
I look forward to meeting, and learning from, others on this amazing OHDSI community! For those working on ATLAS, and developing phenotype algorithms and logic, feel free to reach out to me, as I’ll be most grateful for the opportunity to learn from, and learn with, you!
Hi all,
My name is Shanshan Lin and I currently work as a research data analyst at JHU school of Medicine. I completed my ScM program from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health this May in General Epidemiology and Methodology track from Department of Epidemiology. My research interests include pharmacoepidemiology, precision medicine, real-world evidence, and methodology. Happy to connect with you all and I’m delighted to be part of this community.
Thanks,
Shanshan
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Hi Everyone,
My name is Rettin Jose and i’m currently working as a bioinformatic analyst .I completed my Doctor of Pharmacy from KUHS university. Excited to join this community and learn a lot.
Thank you.
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Hi everyone,
I’ve recently joined an artificial intelligence branch of a major hospital in Brazil. I will be developing predictions on early disease notification and high health risks for patients. I will also work on standardization of data across all our health institutions. Happy to have found this resource and community and hope to share/gather knowledge.
Thanks
D.M.
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Jacques Raubenheimer
Biostatistician at the University of Sydney.
Looking forward to learning from everyone here.
Hello! My name is Samantha Kostacos and I am a senior in high school in Fort Washington, PA. I am brand new to OHDSI and am excited to learn more. I am planning on studying data analytics in college and have a particular interest in sports analytics. I’d be thrilled to get some research experience within data analytics if I could assist anyone with a project. Thank you!
Hi Samantha,- it’s great to hear you are intested in data analytics. Feel free to send me your resume. We can talk more about Odysseus and what we do with medical data.
Hello everyone,
My name is Noah Pierce and I am a Software Engineer at the National Association of Community Health Centers on the Bioinformatics team of the Clinical Affairs division. I am currently trying to learn more about OHDSI OMOP as OMOP on FHIR seems to be the direction we are moving with our data strategy. My first project here at NACHC is working on a Machine Learning algorithm to analyze SDOH data in the OMOP standard. I am new to NACHC and new to Health Care ontologies, as my previous position was as a Computer Information Systems professor. If there is a way I can use my technical and teaching skills to help the community, let me know!
Thanks,
Noah Pierce
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My name is Bolu Oluwalade. I am currently a data programmer analyst at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I have some experience working with data and advanced analytics in research, clinical and public health settings and have also worked with HL7 FHIR. I am looking to learn and contribute to the FHIR and Medical Imaging/NLP workgroups.
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My name is Luciana and I live in São Paulo, Brazil. I am a Pharmacist and have worked for many years in the Pharmaceutical industry in the areas of clinical research and market access. I currently work part-time at Oracle and the other half at a company specializing in elderly care, called Laços Saúde. Laços is the company that implemented the The Buurtzorg Model (https://www.buurtzorg.com) model in Brazil. I am interested in implementing OMOP and would like to connect with others who are using CDM in Brazil. I want to participate in the Implementers Forum and if there is a forum in the Latin America region, I am also interested in collaborating.
Hi all,
I’m Pauline Bosco-Levy, Medical Director at Horiana, a French consulting company specialized in epidemiology and biostatistics.
I am very interested in OMOP and all the methodological approaches developped by OHDSI, and I would to learn more by joining the community!
Looking foward to be part of the journey!
Pauline
Hello! My name is Shilpa Londhe. So…I wear a few hats! I am the Executive Director of a Maternal Health Research Nonprofit called Maternal Spotlight and have been leading health equity analytics projects at Deloitte for the last three years. Both jobs utilize my training in quantitative methods as a health services researcher (which includes studying impacts of health policy and applying disparities research methodologies). I’ve become quite familiar with leveraging large data sets to identify unmet medical needs (i.e., inability to access timely, high quality care). This includes creating business rules/proxies for various SDOH elements in creative ways! While I am formally new to the OHDSI community, I have been a “follower” of the community for several years and am excited to officially join in the fun!
In terms of how I’d like to help the OHDSI community: I would like to work with others interested in filling evidence gaps in maternal health (specifically) and, of course, broadly across health equity topics. I have experience leading data analytics teams, so while I speak data, I also know enough to be dangerous when it comes to programming. I’m a former SAS’er but getting up to speed with R and eager to keep learning from others making the transition as well. I am a former professor and enjoy mentoring anyone interested in any of the areas I’ve spent time in. I consider myself to be a maternal health researcher – recently published on the lack of adequate maternal evidence in our existing domestic data collection efforts (Maternal Centric Measurement and Data Gaps in Addressing Maternal Morbidities: A Scoping Review - PubMed). Very much welcome the opportunity to meet others interested in these topics!
Outside of work, I am a mother of two, a dog lover, a long distance runner, and I try to make references to 1980s/90s pop culture as often as I can.
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Welcome @slondhemukhija , it’s great to have another Cornellian and another Londhe in the fold I think the Health Equity workgroup and the Perinatal and Reproductive Health workgroup could benefit from your participation and contributions.
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Hi Luciana - I can connect you with someone in my organisation who is using OMOP’d Brazilian data. You can message me at seager@ohdsi.org and I will connect you directly.
Thanks, Sarah
Thank you good to be here. More Cornellians, more Londhes - always a good thing in my book! I’ll reach out to the groups you mentioned.
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