WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Please join us Tuesday, Nov. 29 (11 am ET), for our next OHDSI community call, which will feature our final workgroup updates of 2022. We will hear about four of our community workgroups from the following collaborators:
Medical Devices • Asiyah Lin (Data and Technology Advancement Scholar, NIH)
Clinical Trials • Tom Walpole (Chief Technology Officer, Trials.ai)
Psychiatry • Dmitry Dymshyts (Associate Director, Janssen R&D)
Patient-Level Prediction • Jenna Reps (Director, Janssen R&D)
Everybody is invited. Calendar invites for our 2022 community calls go out each Friday. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly meetings will be posted on both our main OHDSI Teams tenant and on our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 7am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7pm ET.
FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 12pm ET (European & Eastern US Time zone): (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday at 12pm ET NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information and updates (Meeting ID: 924 8598 5949; Passcode: 119986)
Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Thursday, Dec. 1 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 10am ET
Pop. Level Estimation WG Meeting (Western Hemi): Thursday, Dec. 1 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first Thursday of every month at 12pm ET.
OMOP CDM Oncology- Vocabulary /Development Subgroup: Thursday, Dec. 1 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 1pm ET
Dentistry WG: Thursday, Dec. 1 at 7pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 7pm ET.
Education WG: Friday, Dec. 2 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every 4 weeks on Friday of each month at 9am ET.
GIS-Geographic Information System WG GENERAL Meeting: Friday, Dec. 2 at 9am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Friday at 9am ET.
Healthcare Systems Interest Group (formerly Electronic Health Record WG): Monday, Dec. 5 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10am ET
Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 10am ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 10am and 1pm ET, respectively
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Nigel Hughes, Peter Rijnbeek, Kees van Bochove, Talita Duarte-Salles, Carl Steinbeisser, David Vizcaya, Dani Prieto-Alhambra, and Patrick Ryan on the publication of Evaluating a novel approach to stimulate open science collaborations: a case series of “study-a-thon” events within the OHDSI and European IMI communities in JAMIA.
JOB POSTINGS
Northeastern University invites applications for multiple tenured/ tenure-track faculty positions in support of an Impact Engine centered on large-scale observational health data science and informatics to start in the fall of 2023. These faculty will be core members of our Real-World Healthcare Navigator (RWHN) Impact Engine which aims to change how research is translated into clinical practice by establishing a sustainable service that leads the way in fully reproducing health studies (Real-World Healthcare Navigator | Impact Engines). Successful candidates will work closely with the OHDSI Center at Northeastern’s Roux Institute to develop and apply healthcare analytics in the real-world evidence (RWE) area with the goal of improving patient health outcomes. More information and an application link are available here.
• The OHDSI Center at the Roux Institute seeks a postdoctoral fellow to join their team focused on developing statistical methods and applying them to observational data from large-scale federated datasets (e.g. electronic health records and administrative claims data), with specific applications to the safety of biologics. This research will directly improve our ability to use real world data to characterize patient populations, construct population level estimates relating exposures to health outcomes, and to enhance clinical decision making through improved patient-level predictions. More information and an application link are available here.
• FDA/CDER’s Division of Hepatology and Nutrition is seeking a clinician with bioinformatics or biostatistics training to work with the Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) Team to evaluate large datasets of liver-related data, collaborate on the Team’s review of drugs with hepatotoxicity signals, and help develop informatics-based processes in DILI evaluation across the Agency. Contact Judy Racoosin at judith.racoosin@fda.hhs.gov for information about the application process (that will be through USAJOBS).
• Andrew Williams recently announced two exciting new openings at Tufts Medicine. 1) Senior Project Manager for a multisite multiyear grant standardizing critical care EHR and waveform data. (CHoRUS Bridge2AI) 2) Lead software developer and research data warehouse manager for Tufts Medicine’s OMOP instance and related services. Remote work is possible for both positions. If you have questions, please reach out to Andrew at awilliams15@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
• The Johns Hopkins OHDSI team has just put out an opening for a data scientist/statistical engineer position. The candidate is expected to help create further synergy between the domain expertise of Johns Hopkins’s Precision Medicine Centers of Excellence and the extensive health data network provided through our OHDSI collaboration. More details and an application link are available here.
OHDSI UPDATES
The EMA has selected the first 10 data partners to collaborate with DARWIN EU®, the Data Analysis and Real-World Interrogation Network. The data available to these partners will be used for studies to generate real-world evidence that will support scientific evaluations and regulatory decision making, and all have already been mapped to the OMOP CDM. You can learn more about how OHDSI is collaborating with DARWIN EU®.
• The next OHDSI APAC Community Call will be Dec. 1 (Nov. 30 in the Western Hemisphere) and will recap the APAC Symposium. You can join these bi-weekly community calls here.
• Patrick Ryan introduced the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) Challenge on the forums recently. All members of the OHDSI community are welcome and encouraged to submit their entries of the best ERD for the OMOP CDM to this forum post (or to the CDM Workgroup MS Teams site) by Tuesday, Dec 13. One winner will be selected by a committee from the CDM workgroup, and announced on OHDSI’s last community call of the year on Dec 20.
• Anna Ostropolets will defend her dissertation at Columbia University on Wed., Nov. 30, with an open session scheduled for 10 am ET (join that session here). Her dissertation title is “Generating Reliable and Responsive Observational Evidence: Reducing Pre-analysis Bias.”
• Rupa Makadia was the latest guest to join the Early-Stage Researchers Career Speaker Series. You can watch that discussion here. The next session will be held Monday, Dec. 12 (11 am ET), and Kristin Kostka will be the featured speaker. You can join the call at https://bit.ly/OHDSILeaders.
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: Machine Learning to Predict the Ischemic Stroke among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients using Taipei Medical University Clinical Research Database (Phan Thanh Phuc)
Tuesday: Examining Differences in Baseline Characteristics of Broad and Narrow Phenotype Algorithms (Jill Hardin)
Wednesday: OMOP and FHIR Data Comparison (Spencer SooHoo)
Thursday: Analyzing the Use of Beers Criteria Guidelines through ATLAS Operationalization (Richard Boyce)
Friday: Cohort Definition Validation in Atlas (Charity Hilton)
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