WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join our Feb. 21 community call (11 am ET) for our third update on Phenotype Phebruary, which is being led by Gowtham Rao and Azza Shoaibi. The phenotype discussions that were featured during Week 3 included Parkinson’s disease (Allan Wu) and myocardial infarction (Mirza Khan/Adam Atif). There is also an ongoing discussion on what makes cohort definitions reusable, which will be included in the update. To join or follow any of these discussions, please visit our Phenotype Phebruary homepage.
We will also have our third week of 2023 objectives & key results (OKRs) announcements from our OHDSI workgroups. On Tuesday, we will hear about the following teams: Early-Stage Researchers (Faaizah Arshad), Healthcare Systems Special Interest Group (Melanie Philofsky), THEMIS (Melanie Philofsky), Oncology (Asieh Golozar), Eye Care and Vision Science (Michelle Hribar), Latin America (Jose Posada), Psychiatry (Dmitry Dymshyts), and Health Equity (Jake Gillberg).
Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls will be posted on both our main OHDSI Teams tenant and on our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Joel Swerdel, Darmendra Ramcharran, and Jill Hardin on the publication of Using a data-driven approach for the development and evaluation of phenotype algorithms for systemic lupus erythematosus in PLoS One.
Congratulations to the team of Chungsoo Kim, Dong Yun Lee, Jimyung Park, Su-Jin Yang, Eng Hooi Tan, Daniel-Prieto Alhambra, Yo Han Lee, Sangha Lee, Seong-Ju Kim, Jeewon Lee, Rae Woong Park and Yunmi Shin on the publication of Safety outcomes of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in adolescent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with comorbid depression: the ASSURE study in Psychological Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
THIS IS THE FINAL WEEK to include your input in the vocabulary landscape assessment surveys! Anna Ostropolets introduced these surveys last month; the first is an overall form for people who use the vocabularies for research, ETL, software development or something else. The second is an ETL-specific form for those who perform ETL or have an OMOP CDM instance at their disposal. Please fill it for each data source you have as we will use this information to prioritize the vocabularies we work on
• Andrew Williams has announced an exciting new initiative at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts University. He is leading the new Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics, which will work to produce new modes and methods of using healthcare-generated data and other related data to support research, and to use these methods at Tufts Medicine and in research communities to generate evidence and improve care.
• Phenotype Phebruary continues, and there is now a homepage on OHDSI.org that contains direct links to all forum threads, as well as videos from both phenotype discussions and updates from community calls.
• #OHDSI2023 is coming Oct. 20-22, and we are looking for people to join the scientific review committee. If you are interested in helping review our community research in the leadup to our global symposium, please fill out this form. The deadline is Feb. 28.
• Dani Prieto-Alhambra recently shared that the Health Data Sciences section of the Oxford University Botnar Research has created five Trueta bursaries for the residential one-week summer school in Real World Evidence, held June 19-23, 2023. These bursaries will cover free attendance to the Oxford Summer School 2023: Real World Evidence using the OMOP Common Data Model and accommodation (including breakfast and dinner) in Lady Margaret Hall facilities for the duration of the course. To learn if you are eligible for one of the bursaries and to apply, please visit this homepage.
• The EHDEN Academy recently announced its newest addition, a one-hour module on “the phenotyping program” led by Gowtham Rao. Please visit the EHDEN Academy homepage to take this or any of the Academy’s 20+ courses and join the 3,500 students across 100 nations who have already enrolled.
• Rachael Davis is leading a network study to characterize and evaluate trends in pathways for antiretroviral therapy (ART) for individuals who have been diagnosed with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and treated persistently over two years. She is seeking collaborators and data partners for this study. Please reach out raechel.davis@yale.edu if you are interested in collaborating or participating.
• Dani Prieto-Alhambra announced that applications are open for the 2023 Health Data Science Black Internship Programme at the University of Oxford. This will be an eight-week paid internship this summer for junior Black researchers to expand their knowledge around health data science and gain the experience needed to either begin or advance a career in the field. Learn more and apply here!
• The Save Our Sisyphus Network Study event begins in late March, but we are currently looking for an interesting research question to kick off this event. If you have one and would like to serve as P.I. for this global collaboration, please fill out this form. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 28.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• The #OHDSISocialShowcase continues this week, as all the research from the OHDSI Symposium collaborator showcase will be presented on the Twitter and LinkedIn social feeds over the next several months. You can see the research and the respective leads that will be shared this week.
Monday: Cohort Diagnostics using Oncology Data Items for Multi-national Cancer Cohort (Seo Jeong Shin)
Tuesday: Framework for Assessing the Reproducibility of Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research: DOACs and Ischemic or Hemorrhagic Events Case Study (Asieh Golozar)
Wednesday: Development of cancer-related information extraction model from pathology reports using transfer learning (Jimyung Park)
Thursday: dGEM: Decentralized algorithm for Generalized mixed Effect Models with the Application in Hospital Profiling (Jiayi Tong)
Friday: Federated Patient-Level Prediction (Byungjin Choi)
OHDSI Symposiums and Other Collaboration Opportunities
• The 2023 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22. Please join this week’s community call for details about its new location!
• The 2023 European Symposium — titled “Full Steam Ahead” — will be held July 1-3 in Rotterdam. The main conference will be held Monday, July 3, while there will be tutorials on the weekend of July 1-2. More information and registration links will be posted when available.
• The 2023 Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held July 13-14 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and it will follow MedInfo 2023 (July 8-12 in Sydney, Australia). Submissions are now open for the APAC Symposium, and they will close March 31. More information can be found on the homepage.
• The 2023 AMIA Symposium will be held Nov. 11-15 in New Orleans, La., and the annual call for participation is underway. Proposals are being accepted for papers, podium abstracts, panels, posters, debates, demos and workshops. The deadline is March 8, 2023.
• DevCon is returning in 2023. After our successful first event last year, DevCon 2023 will be held April 21 within the Teams environment. Calendar invites will be sent out at a later date.
HADES Development Announcements
• There were three announcements of new HADES updates over the last week. Jamie Gilbert announced the release of ResultModelManager v0.3.0; Gowtham Rao announced the release of CohortExplorer v0.0.11; and Martijn Schuemie shared the release of ROhdsiWebApi 1.3.2. Read more about these updates here.
OHDSI JOB POSTINGS
Andrew Williams announced an opening for a Software Developer Analyst II at the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). This position will be responsible for executing software development initiatives, including collaborating with various stakeholders to understand requirements and design solutions, evaluating options and developing technical designs, and developing solution using appropriate programming language and/or technical tools.
• Noémie Elhadad shared that the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) is seeking exceptional junior-level faculty members in the tenure track. The positions are open to researchers interested in developing and applying informatics theory and achieving tangible benefits to health care and biology. Three particular foci are (1) machine learning for healthcare and health-related data science, (2) health information technology-based interventions to improve health care and the health of individuals and populations, and (3) translational bioinformatics. DBMI serves as the coordinating center for OHDSI; more information and an application link are posted here.
• Georgina Kennedy shared a recent opportunity for a PhD student at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, to join in a project to understand the current use and future potential of real-world data to measure, explain and respond to variation in clinical cancer care. This funded position comes with a living costs stipend, and a technical background is required. You can learn more about the position/project here, and you can reach out to georgina.kennedy@unsw.edu.au for more information.
• Dani Prieto-Alhambra recently shared an opening for a Database Programmer to join the Health Data Sciences research group at the University of Oxford. According to the posting, you will develop new database applications for big clinical data to meet project requirements and deadlines, provide software feedback and carry out software improvement, extension, integration and further development on existing code. You will contribute to the harmonisation, curation, and processing of large clinical datasets and develop code to validate, test, document and maintain database applications. The full ad and application link are available here, and the closing date is Feb. 27, 2023.
• The Observational Health Data Analytics (OHDA) team at Janssen Research & Development recently opened up five new internships for the coming summer, with each lasting at least 10 weeks and starting around the middle of May. There are openings for an epidemiology graduate intern, a graduate intern, and an undergraduate intern; check out the respective links for more information and an application link. Janssen also announced two summer internships for a Data Science RWE for R&D position, and a Data Science RWE DevCon position.
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