WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Why should your fellow collaborators visit your poster/demo at OHDSI2024? Tell us in 60 seconds on less on Tuesday’s community call (11 am ET)! Fill out this brief form to join our annual Symposium Mad Minutes and promote your research one week before the symposium. We will also share final logistics before the global symposium.
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 are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Benjamin Readhead, Eyal Klang, Undina Gisladottir, Maxence Vandromme, Li Li, Yakeel T. Quiroz, Joseph F. Arboleda-Velasquez, Joel T. Dudley, Nicholas P. Tatonetti, Benjamin S. Glicksberg and Eric M. Reiman on the recent publication of Heparin treatment is associated with a delayed diagnosis of Alzheimer’s dementia in electronic health records from two large United States health systems in Molecular Psychology.
OHDSI UPDATES
• The NEI (National Eye Institute) Office of Data Science and Health Informatics is leading a session Oct. 30 at 12 pm highlighting research opportunities through the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program. Michelle Hribar and Cindy Cai will present their research conducted using the OHDSI network and lead a discussion on future research opportunities it offers for the vision health community. Patrick Ryan will present on the network’s potential for expanding research collaborations. More details and a registration link are available on the event homepage.
• The University of Nottingham is hosting a workshop on “How to be FAIR with Data Standards” Nov. 26-27 in the Nottingham Council House. More information, the two-day agenda and a registration link is available here.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Registration is now open!
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Europe Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — DATOS-CAT: Leveraging OMOP CDM for the standardization, integration and analysis of population-based biomedical data in Catalonia (Judith Martinez-Gonzalez)
Tuesday — Expanding the Episode concept in the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP CDM) Oncology Module: drug Order, Cycle, Course, Regimen and Line of Treatment (Andreas Henriksen)
Wednesday — Is it necessary to include SNOMED CT national extensions in ATHENA? Struggling with adaptation from BIFAP data model to OMOP CDM (Juan Ignacio Díaz-Hernández)
Thursday — Deployment approach for first phase of OMOP CDM harmonization and network study participation at CuSL (Lars Halvorsen)
Friday — Trends over time in medicines with suggested shortages in Europe (Marta Pineda-Moncusi)
Job Openings
• Cynthia Sung announced an opening for a Senior Program Officer, Clinical AI Innovation, at the Gates Foundation . This individual will be responsible for developing an overarching strategy to healthcare applications in AI; conceptualising, investing and managing investments in health applications of AI; providing advice and technical assistance to other program teams considering investment in this area; advocate for the safe, responsible use of AI as force multiplier to reducing inequality in health in LMICs.
OHDSI GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM
• Registration is now open for the 2024 Global Symposium , which will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., USA. The three-day event will feature tutorials on Day 1, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Day 2, and workgroup activities on Day 3.
• Day 1 will open with a single tutorial in the morning: An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence using OHDSI. There will be four advanced tutorials during the afternoon: Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data Model; So, You Think You Want To Run an OHDSI Network Study?; and Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research. You can select your tutorials during the registration process.
You can access the agendas, floorplans, showcase presenters and diagrams, the showcase voting form and the symposium evaluation form HERE
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