OHDSI 2024 – OHDSI

2024 OHDSI Global Symposium

Oct. 22-24 • New Brunswick, N.J. • Hyatt Regency Hotel

The 10th annual OHDSI Global Symposium brought together more than 470 global collaborators for three days of sharing research, building new connections and pushing forward our mission of improving health by empowering a community to collaboratively generate the evidence that promotes better health decisions and better care.

This page will host all materials from OHDSI2024, including video presentations (when available) from the main conference and tutorials, slide decks, posters, demos and more.

State of the Community

Where Have We Gone and Where Are We Going?
(George Hripcsak, Columbia University)

Expand OHDSI Initiative for Eye Care and Ocular Imaging Challenge
(Amberlynn Reed, Natiional Eye Institute)

Titan Awards
(George Hripcsak, Columbia University & Marc Suchard, UCLA)

Plenary: Clinical Insights from LEGEND-T2DM

Introduction to LEGEND-T2DM
(Moderator: Aline Pedroso, Yale University)

Comparative Effectiveness of Second-line Antihyperglycemic Agents
(Arya Aminorroaya, Yale University)

Effectiveness of First-line Antihyperglycemia Agents
(Phyllis Thangaraj, Yale University)

Comparative Safety of SGLT2 for Risk of Diabetic Ketoacidosis
(Hannah Yang/Evan Minty, University of Calgary)

Comparative Safety of GLP1-RA and the Risk of Thyroid Tumors
(Daniel Morales, University of Dundee)

Plenary: Value Proposition for Participating in OHDSI Network Studies like LEGEND-T2DM

Introduction to OHDSI Evidence Network / Marketplace
(Moderator: Clair Blacketer, Johnson & Johnson)

Reflections from US Department of Veterans Affairs
(Scott Duvall, VA)

Reflections from SIDIAP (Spain)
(Talita Duarte-Salles, IDIAP)

Reflections from a Global Commercial Data Provider
(Atif Adam, IQVIA)

Plenary Q&A: Lessons Learned on LEGEND-T2DM Journey

Moderator: Fan Bu, University of Michigan

Panelists: LEGEND-T2DM co-authors

Plenary Panel: JACC-OHDSI Partnership

Moderators:
Nicole Pratt, University of South Australia
Marc Suchard, UCLA

Panelists:
Harlan Krumholz, Yale University
Seng Chan You, Yonsei University
Yuan Lu, Yale University

Collaborator Showcase Lightning Talks

Moderator: Linying Zhang, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

1) The missing link: Cross-species EHR data linkage offers new opportunities
for improving One Health (Kathleen Mullen, University of North Carolina)
2) Comparing probabilistic and rule-based phenotype algorithms for hypotension and angioedema to the experience observed in randomized clinical trials (Joel Swerdel, Johnson & Johnson)
3) Exploring the interplay between metabolic syndrome

and brain volume in depression: Basis for Phenotype-Based Classification (Sujin Gan, Ajou University)
4) Software demonstration: CohortConstructor – an R package to support cohort building pipelines (Edward Burn, University of Oxford)
5) A Oneshot and Lossless Federated Generalized Linear Mixed Effect Model (Jiayi Tong, Johns Hopkins University)
6) NCO-Calibrated DID Analysis: Addressing Unmeasured Confounding in Difference-in-Differences Analyses Using Negative Control Outcomes Experiments (Dazheng Zhang, University of Pennsylvania)
7) Health Trends Across Communities in Minnesota: a Statewide Dashboard Leveraging the OMOP CDM to Monitor the Prevalence of Health Conditions (Samuel Patnoe, HealthPartners Institute)
8) How Often: Large Scale Incidence Rate Calculation of Health Outcomes for Drugs Nested by Indication (Hsin Yi Chen, Columbia University)

Closing Talk: Collaborating on Evidence at Scale

Collaborating on Evidence at Scale
Patrick Ryan, Johnson & Johnson/Columbia University

Collaborator Showcase Posters & Lightning Talks

There were 136 accepted submissions for the 2024 Collaborator Showcase, including posters, software demos and the lightning talks you can find above. This research was both developed and peer-reviewed within the community, and it focuses on several pillars of OHDSI: data standards, methodological research, open-source development, clinical applications, and building community.

Please visit the link below to visit the posters, brief reports and other supplementary materials for our showcase submissions. Each submission will be profiled in the #OHDSISocialShowcase, so please make sure you follow OHDSI on Twitter/X, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Tutorials

Tutorials will be posted when available.