WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join our April 8 community call (11 am ET) for a quick overview of the Strategus package and HADES modules. We’ll walk through the OHDSI Strategus study template and show how it supports designing and running network studies—including the sample study we’re asking sites to run to prep for upcoming OHDSI research. This session will be led by HADES workgroup lead Anthony Sena, Director – Observational Health Data Analytics at Johnson & Johnson.
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 Patricia Pedregal-Pascual, Carlos Guarner-Argente, Eng Hooi Tan, Asieh Golozar, Talita Duarte-Salles, Andreas Weinberger Rosen, Antonella Delmestri, Wai Yi Man, Edward Burn, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, and Danielle Newby on the recent publication of Incidence and survival of colorectal cancer in the United Kingdom from 2000-2021: a population-based cohort study in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
• Congratulations to the team of Minwoo Lee, Kyung Joo Lee, Jinseob Kim, Dong Yun Lee, Rae Woong Park, Sang Youl Rhee, Jae Myung Cha, Hyeon-Jong Yang, Jae-Won Jang, Seunguk Jung, Jeeun Lee, Sang-Hwa Lee, Chulho Kim, Jong-Seok Bae, Yeo Jin Kim, Ju-Hun Lee, Hyoeun Bae, and Yerim Kim on the recent publication of Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and risk of incident dementia: a distributed network analysis using common data models in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
• Congratulations to Ferran Sanz on the recent publication of Integrative Data Science in Drug Safety Research: Experiences, Challenges, and Perspectives in the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science.
• Congratulations to the team of Samuel Cox, Erum Masood, Vasiliki Panagi, Calum Macdonald, Gordon Milligan, Scott Horban, Roberto Santos, Chris Hall, Daniel Lea, Simon Tarr, Shahzad Mumtaz, Emeka Akashili, Andy Rae, Esmond Urwin, Christian Cole, Aziz Sheikh, Emily Jefferson, Philip Roy Quinlan on the recent publication of Conversion of Sensitive Data to the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model: Protocol for the Development and Use of Carrot in JMIR Research Protocols.
• Congratulations to the team of E. Claire Newbern, Azza Shoaibi, Kevin Haynes, Clair Blacketer, Corinne Willame, Frank DeFalco, Gowtham A. Rao, Kourtney Davis, Luis Anaya Velarde, Nicolas Praet, Rupa Makadia, Yimei Xu, Patrick Ryan, and Martijn Schuemie on the recent publication of A rapid cycle analytics framework for vaccine safety surveillance within a real-world data network: Experience with enhanced surveillance of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in Vaccine.
• Congratulations to the team of Liwei Wang, Andrew Wen, Sunyang Fu, Xiaoyang Ruan, Ming Huang, Rui Li, Qiuhao Lu, Heather Lyu, Andrew E. Williams & Hongfang Liu on the publication of A scoping review of OMOP CDM adoption for cancer research using real world data in NPJ Digital Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
• The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. More information on the symposium, including abstract submission and registration links, will be available soon.
• Our fourth annual DevCon will be held Friday, April 25, from 9 am – 2 pm ET. This virtual session continues to connect our global open-source community so that we can learn about recent updates and discuss ways to continue enhancing the future of OHDSI open-source software.
• The April edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. It includes community updates, details on the latest vocabularies refresh and community work around data, the monthly OHDSI podcast, recent publications and presentations, and plenty more.
• Daniel Morales is a General Practitioner and Epidemiologist affiliated with the Division of Population Health and Genomics at the University of Dundee. His research primarily focuses on the safety and effectiveness of medicines, leveraging his clinical and regulatory experience to inform epidemiological studies. Beyond his academic role, Daniel contributes to regulatory science as a Senior Clinical Epidemiologist within the Data Analytics Taskforce at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). In the latest edition of the Collaborator Spotlight, Daniel discusses his career journey, the progression of both EHDEN and DARWIN EU, how OHDSI can inform regulatory decision-making, and plenty more.
• Christian Reich and Sarah Seager are leading an effort to publish a second edition of the Book of OHDSI, which will include updates to previous text and new paragraphs/chapters. This work is taking place within the Education workgroup; if you would like to join this effort, please sign up here.
• The R/Medicine virtual conference provides a forum for sharing R based tools and approaches used to analyze and gain insights from health data. The call for proposals (talks, demos and workshops) is open through Friday, April 11.
Save The Dates
• The OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.
• Registration is open for the Europe Symposium, which will be held July 5-7 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global 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 — Streamlining Research Data Standardization: AI-READI Survey Instrument Data Elements and MoCA Measurement Data Elements are curated and mapped utilizing a Standardized Value Set Mapping Table for transformation into the OMOP Common Data Model (Stephanie S. Hong)
Tuesday — Constructing an Enriched Clinical Knowledge Graph: Transforming EHR Data to OMOP and Modeling in Neo4j Graph Database (Thejas Bharadwaj)
Wednesday — Evaluation of PLIP model performance using pathology images and notes based on OMOP-CDM (Harrin Kim)
Thursday — Trends in Hospitalization Among Patients with Cardiovascular, Immunological, and neurological Illnesses: Findings from HowOften (Azza AS Shoaibi)
Friday — CohortContrast: Universal Patient Trajectory Extraction from OMOP CDM (Markus Haug)
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