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#942

Hi!

I’m Elina Sarpola, a health data and analysis enthusiast from Finland.

I’ve been working on secondary use of healthcare data since 2014: Data analysis/science, visualization&dashboards, data discovery and modeling.

Our company, Productivity Leap Oy, has been a EHDEN certified SME since 2021. We have been and are currently implementing the OMOP cdm in several projects for different public sector agents in Finland.

In Finland we have vast and comprehensive amounts of healthcare and social data, due to our public heath- and socialcare system. We have decades of digital ehr and social care data on all of our citizens.
A goldmine to dig into for data based answers!

OMOP is an amazing global opportunity to advance the use of data. Looking foreward to collaboration!

Elina✨

#943

Hi! My name is Nim. I am a Software Developer working for the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto of Canada. We have started a project that will use the OHDSI OMOP to store various types of data, including pathology, imaging, treatment, etc., which will be used for the studies of our research teams. I am excited to learn more about the data model, as well as the software tools from OHDSI, and hope to be a part of the ongoing development in the community. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

#944

Hello everyone!

My name is Emily Sha and I’m a new Product Manager at the Broad Institute working on the Terra Platform. Currently my team and I are working to create a(nother) OMOP cohort builder for datasets with linked genomic data that allows the Data Custodian to approve requests at the cohort (rather than dataset) level.

I’m rather new to biotech and brand new to data exploration, cohorting and data management. I’m really looking forward to learning more from this community and hopefully to develop an open-source tool that proves useful to the clinical research community. Please reach out if you are also a tool builder or if you’d like to share your thoughts and feedback about existing cohorting experiences such as the OHDSI Atlas tool. Also, feel free to throw useful links and resources my way. I’m only beginning to discover this space.

#945

Hello everyone!

My name is Alex Knight and I am Project Manager for Data Standards at Health Data Research UK.

I’m a biochemist/biophysicist/molecular biologist :dna: by background and previously worked at the National Physical Laboratory in :uk: as Principal Research Scientist and at Holmusk in :singapore:/:uk: (which is where I first encountered OMOP!) as a project manager.

My current role is to support and encourage the adoption of standards - especially OMOP - in the UK.

Activities we are currently delivering include:

  • Collaborating with the European Health Evidence Network (EHDEN) to enable 5 new UK data partners to join the EHDEN consortium.
  • Convening an OMOP Special Interest Group to share insights and experiences in OMOP mapping and supporting the new UK OHDSI Node.
  • Working with the Gateway team and NHS England’s Research Secure Data Environment Network to create a single ‘front door’ for the UK’s OMOP health data.
  • Undertaking a survey of the landscape of current and potential UK OMOP users to identify the best ways to support adoption of the OMOP CDM. If you are based in the UK, please feel free to fill out the questionnaire here: OMOP Questionnaire Survey or use the QR code:
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  • Curating community resources including the UK OMOP GitHub pages site.

I’m especially keen to get in touch with any UK OMOP users who we haven’t already been in touch with!

#946

Hi everyone, My name is Mandickel Kamtengeni, and I’ve recently become a member of Dr. Antonella Delmestris’ team as a Database Programmer at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) within the Botnar Research Centre at the University of Oxford. My main focus in this role is the mapping of CPRD datasets into the OMOP common data model.

I’m incredibly enthusiastic about making significant contributions to the OHDSI community by collaborating with fellow developers and researchers on a variety of open-source projects within the OHDSI community.

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#947

Hi,
I am a scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto. The focus of my lab is on the development of AI models to extract predictive information from radiology and pathology images. I am also leading a project to extract clinical data from the hospital source systems into a FHIR database, then transform that into the OMOP CDM so that researchers can access it and link it to imaging data. The aim is to apply this across all domains in the hospital and to keep it more bounded we are starting with a focus on breast cancer. I have joined the FHIR/Medical Imaging/NLP and oncology groups and I hope to be able to attend some of those calls to learn more about OHDSI.

#948

Hey Robert,
I too am a general dentist seeking more educations in the informatics realm . I already hung up my drill years ago to review dental claims remotely as my main job. I just started Georgia Tech’s remote masters in data analytics in fall 2023 and it is rigorous! Will you at the 2023 global symposium in New Jersey? It would be nice to meet another very rare dentist in this field!

Thanks,
Julie Cha

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#949

Hello,

I’ve been introduced by a fellow OHDSI Member. I’m Ryan, the founder of StandardCare.us, where we’re currently focused on developing an interoperability solution. Our aim is to enhance care coordination within provider networks, reducing friction in the process.

If you find this intriguing, feel free to reach out at your convenience. hello [@] StandardCare.us

#950

Hello all-

I’m new to the field of healthcare data analysis, working as an OMOP analyst at IQVIA. However, I have a 16+ year history in healthcare working as a physical therapist in a variety of settings, and I’m very interested in contributing to something that will improve the quality and equity of healthcare on a broader basis than just one-on-one interactions. I have appreciated all the wonderful resources available for newcomers on the OHDSI website, and look forward to learning more from the various workgroups over the coming months. Thanks in advance for any help / additional resources that may be offered and I will do my best to become an active contributor as time goes on!

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#951

Hi there!
I’m Valle, and I’m finishing my studies in Clinical Informatics at the University of Seville. I’ve decided to undertake my Final Year Project on OHDSI and OMOP tools for the analysis of clinical data at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville.
I’m very excited to be a part of this large community and motivated to learn as much as I can about this great project!!

#952

Hi Julie! So sorry for the delayed response. I have been traveling and have not checked the forums recently. Yes, I will be at the OHDSI Symposium and would absolutely like to meet up. I am an author on three of the posters, just come find me! In the meantime, we would love to see you at the Dentistry Workgroup meetings on Thursday evenings at 7PM ET. I would be happy to provide a link if you need it, otherwise I look forward to meeting you. koski@ohdsi.org

#953

Hi, my name is Kluivert Boakye Duah and I am a first-year PhD student at the Patrick G. Johnson Centre for Cancer Research, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. My research is focused on connecting all island datasets on lymphoma to illuminate drug resistance and immune dysfunction.

I want to help OHDSI by developing R packages and writing research papers to help solve health problems.
When I am not busy, I like to watch football.

#954

Helloo,

I am Ahmed Elraffa, a Clinical Pharmacist and Clinical Research Coordinator based in Dubai- United Arab Emirates.

I have an experience for 15 years as a clinical pharmacist and 5 years as a CRC implementing interventional trials.

I came across the OHDSI community will searching for a new methodologies to ease the way for Clinical Trials Eligibility criteria.

I am currently following the EHDEN academy tutorials.

Thanks
Ahmed Elraffa

#955

Hello. I’m Luke, and I currently work as a Clinical Scientist specialising in Radiotherapy Physics and Oncology. Over the last year or so, I have been studying for a masters-level qualification in Data Science and AI, which I am applying to healthcare. This has sparked a keen interest in the field and a passion for working collaboratively to build up AI-based technology in the healthcare service.

Obviously, a key step in any successful application of AI is the initial data engineering of training/validation data. Having become concerned with the state of the data quality and data siloes that seem to be the norm in healthcare, I came across OHDSI as a means to overcome these problems. I am very interested to learn from OHDSI and the wider community, to help create a data environment that is fitting for the computing modern era. I am a relative novice in this domain but believe my passion for service improvement, learning and collaboration will serve the vision I have for streamlining healthcare data analytics (at least for the North East of England where I am based).

I am looking forward to getting involved and learning from you all.

Luke

#956

Hello, I am Rahul, a senior Bioinformatics Analyst at Cognome. I work with the Montefiore network of Hospitals which use the OMOP CDM from OHDSI to standardize the data. I am part of a team which does manual mapping to standard concepts and verifies automated mapping procedures.

#957

Hi Robert,

I definitely hope we can find each other and meet at the OHDSI Symposium. There are so few of us dental folks !

I cannot currently make Thursday evenings at 7pm but hoping that may change in the future.

Thanks
Julie

#958

Hi Everyone,

I’m Trinabh Gupta. In my day job, I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science
at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I and my students research on
large-scale computer systems, particularly large-scale privacy-preserving
systems. Generally, the goal is to build systems that can keep data confidential
or private even if the underlying infrastructure is compromised by an attacker.
Besides doing research, I teach courses on operating systems and cryptography to
both undergraduate and graduate students.

In terms of how I’d like to help the OHDSI community: I’m very familiar with
the state-of-the-art in privacy-preserving technologies including federated (or
distributed) analytics and machine learning, and one place I see I could
potentially help with is methods development. For instance, this could be to
improve the single-shot federated queries/methods currently supported in OHDSI,
and extending them to be more automated, and perhaps even multi-shot (while
being privacy-preserving). I am very broad in computer systems and can also help
with software development. Looking forward to interacting with you all!

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#959

Hi everyone! I’m Laura Kerr, and I’m a data manager at Genomics England. I’ve been developing clinical data ETL on and off since 1993, and I’m currently working on transforming our primary data (collected as part of the 100,000 Genomes Project) and secondary data (provided by the NHS) to OMOP. It’s generally going well, but there have been a few Groundhog Day moments along the way - some of the problems I’ve encountered in mapping enumerated values to concepts have been very similar to those involved in mapping OXMIS to Read codes back in the 1990s.

My current headache is how to deal with HPO terms captured during the 100,000 Genomes Project. There seem to be several mapping initiatives around, and I’m trying to work out whether to adopt one of those or add HPO as a vocabulary to our OMOP model.

Anyway, that’s me. I’m glad to be here and I’m looing forward to learning and contributing!

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#960

Hi Laura:

Welcome to the family. Your issues are very apropos in the Oncology WG, please consider joining. We are working on bridging the gap between genomics and clinical data for the purpose of applying epidemiological methods to these data.

I never thought I would meet somebody real who was in these particular trenches. :slight_smile:

#961

Hi Christian,

I’ve joined the Oncology WG, and I’m looking forward to contributing and finding out how others have addressed some of the issues we’ve come across when mapping our cancer data to OMOP.

OXMIS codes - I was quite surprised to find OXMIS as a standard vocabulary, as I thought it was long since dead and buried!

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