WEEKLY MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, July 20 (11 am ET) for our next set of workgroup presentations at our weekly community call. This week, we are excited to hear about four working groups:
• Early-Stage Researchers (Faaizah Arshad and Ross Williams)
• Women of OHDSI (Maura Beaton)
• Latin America (Jose Posada)
• Education (Nigel Hughes)
Many of you will have the calendar link in your OHDSI Teams environment. If not, you will need the specific meeting link to access the community call; it will also be posted in the main OHDSI Teams environment. As always, if you can’t make it, the recordings will be posted to both our Community Calls page and the General OHDSI Teams recordings folder.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP CALLS
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Genomic Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, July 20 at 9 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Tuesday at 9 am ET.
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, July 20 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 1 pm ET.
Women of OHDSI WG: Tuesday, July 20 at 2 pm ET (Meeting Link) THIS WORK GROUP IS ON HIATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month at 2 pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – Outreach/Research Subgroup Meeting: Tuesday, July 20 at 3 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesday of each month at 3 pm ET.
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Wednesday, July 21 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 1 pm ET.
Psychiatry WG: Thursday, July 22 at 8 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 8 am ET.
Medical Devices WG: Thursday, July 22 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the fourth Thursday of each odd month at 11 am ET.
Latin America WG: Thursday, July 22 at 11 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the fourth Thursday of each month at 11 am ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology WG – CDM/Vocabulary Subgroup Meeting: Thursday, July 22 at 1 pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 1 pm ET.
Clinical Trials WG: Friday, July 23 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Electronic Health Record WG: Friday, July 23 at 10 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 10 am ET.
Phenotype Development and Evaluation WG: Friday, July 23 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 1 pm ET.
Pharmacovigilance Evidence Investigation (PEI) WG: Monday, July 26 at 11:30 am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the last Monday of each month at 11:30am ET.
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Martina Recalde, Elena Roel, Andrea Pistillo, Anthony Sena, Albert Prats-Uribe, Waheed-Ul-Rahman Ahmed, Heba Alghoul, Thamir Alshammari, Osaid Alser, Carlos Areia, Edward Burn, Paula Casajust, Dalia Dawoud, Scott DuVall, Thomas Falconer, Sergio Fernández-Bertolín, Asieh Golozar, Mengchun Gong, Lana Yin Hui Lai, Jennifer Lane, Kristine Lynch, Michael Matheny, Paras Mehta, Daniel Morales, Karthik Natarjan, Fredrik Nyberg, Jose Posada, Christian Reich, Peter Rijnbeek, Lisa Schilling, Karishma Shah, Nigam Shah, Vignesh Subbian, Lin Zhang, Hong Zhu, Patrick Ryan, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Kristin Kostka and Talita Duarte-Salles on the publication of “Characteristics and outcomes of 627 044 COVID-19 patients living with and without obesity in the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom” in the International Journal of Obesity.
Congratulations to the team of Elena Roel, Andrea Pistillo, Martina Recalde, Anthony Sena, Sergio Fernandez-Bertolin, Maria Aragon, Diana Puente, Waheed-Ul-Rahman Ahmed, Heba Alghoul, Osaid Alser, Thamir Alshammari, Carlos Areia, Clair Blacketer, William Carter, Paula Casajust, Aedín Culhane, Dalia Dawoud, Frank DeFalco, Scott DuVall, Thomas Falconer, Asieh Golozar, Mengchun Gong, Laura Hester, George Hripcsak, Eng Hooi Tan, Hokyun Jeon, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Lana Lai, Kristine Lynch, Michael Matheny, Daniel Morales, Karthik Natarajan, Fredrik Nyberg, Anna Ostropolets, Jose Posada, Albert Prats-Uribe, Christian Reich, Donna Rivera, Lisa Schilling, Isabelle Soerjomataram, Karishma Shah, Nigam Shah, Yang Shen, Matthew Spotnitz, Vignesh Subbian, Marc Suchard, Annalisa Trama, Lin Zhang, Ying Zhang, Patrick Ryan, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Kristin Kostka and Talita Duarte-Salles on the publication of “Characteristics and outcomes of over 300,000 COVID-19 individuals with history of cancer in the United States and Spain” in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Congratulations to the team of Anna Ostropolets, Xintong Li, Rupa Makadia, Gowtham Rao, Peter Rijnbeek, Talita Duarte-Salles, Anthony Sena, Azza Shaoibi, Marc Suchard, Patrick Ryan, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra and George Hripcsak on this recent preprint posted on MedRxiv: Empirical evaluation of the sensitivity of background incidence rate characterization for adverse events across an international observational data network. Community feedback is welcome!
OHDSI UPDATES
The HADES Unit-Test-A-Thon from last week was a terrific success. Martijn Schuemie will discuss this effort during the community updates section of this week’s community call.
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Initiative Seminar Series will be this Wednesday, July 28, at 11 am. Jessica Gronsbell (University of Toronto) will present a talk on “Statistical learning with electronic health records data.” The seminar series is open to everybody. More information and a registration link are available here. *** Please note this is a NEW link than from previous updates. ***
• Peter Rijnbeek recently shared the news that the EMA has launched a new call for tenders for Real World Data subscription. The purpose of the call is to get access to and use of a set of individual patient-level databases drawn from the population receiving primary care, specialist care or hospital care in the EEA countries. The application deadline is July 30; more information is available here.
• The OHDSI APAC team announced that there will be a 2-day ETL training on August 12-13 (APAC time zone). This training will include the source data analysis, ETL development, and data quality check aspects of an OMOP conversion process. The registration deadline is July 23, and you can register here.
Registration for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium is open! To register for the 2021 Global OHDSI Symposium, please click here
Sponsorship: All OHDSI activities depend largely on government grants and organization sponsorships; please email symposium@ohdsi.org if you would like to consider sponsorship opportunities for this year’s symposium
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