WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join our Dec. 17 (11 am ET) community call for a holiday-themed sendoff to the year in OHDSI. Feel free to dress festively and join us for some fun activities and share who/what you are grateful for in 2024!
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 Mengjia Kang, Jose Alvarado-Guzman, Luke Rasmussen, and Justin Starren on the recent publication of PheWAS analysis on large-scale biobank data with PheTK in Bioinformatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Ahmed Elhussein, Ulugbek Baymuradov, NYGC ALS Consortium, Noémie Elhadad, Karthik Natarajan, and Gamze Gürsoy on the publication of A framework for sharing of clinical and genetic data for precision medicine applications in Nature Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
• Save The Date! The OHDSI Europe Symposium will be hosted by the OHDSI Belgium Node on 5-7 July 2025 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available.
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be Jan. 15, 2025 at 11 am ET. We are happy to welcome Sonia Hernández-Díaz, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will provide a talk on “Emulation of Target Trial on Vaccinations During Pregnancy.” More information and the meeting link are available on the CBER BEST series homepage.
• The CDM Survey subgroup invites colleagues who have or are going to design, develop, and/or implement research surveys and use them with the OMOP CDM to share information about those efforts by completing this survey. Your completion of this 10-15 minute survey will provide information to the CDM workgroup about OMOP utilization among survey research teams. The CDM Survey subgroup is a collaborative effort, led by a team at the National Cancer Institute, to develop standardized approaches and best practices for helping research teams better integrate survey data elements into the OMOP common data model. The survey will remain open through Dec. 31, 2024.
• The latest edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available. The latest edition includes 13 recent published studies, community updates, the latest collaborator spotlight, OHDSI presentations, and more.
• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. Videos of all the tutorials have also been posted.
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 — Harmonization of OMOP Drug and Device source concepts using ChatGPT-4o (David Davila-Garcia)
Tuesday — Transforming Clinical Trial Data to the OMOP CDM (Cynthia Sung)
Wednesday — Beyond Acute COVID-19: Identifying Pediatric Post-Acute Subphenotypes Through Topic Modeling (Yishan Shen, Yiwen Lu, Yuqing Lei)
Thursday — Impact of drug safety-related regulatory actions in South Korea (Subin Kim)
Friday — Measuring Low-Value Primary Care with OMOP Common Data Model in the Adult Primary Care Registry (Shanshan Lin)
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