Weekly OHDSI Digest- October 17, 2022

WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS

Please join us Tuesday, Oct. 18 (11 am ET) for a “Welcome To OHDSI” call, when we highlight what OHDSI is all about, and the many ways collaborators (both long-standing and new) can learn and make an impact in the community.

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 (Please check with meeting organizers as some meetings will be cancelled due to the symposium)

Common Data Model WG: Tuesday, Oct 18 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link )
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 10am and 1pm ET, respectively. THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED

FHIR and OMOP WG – Data Model Harmonization Subgroup Meeting: Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 9am ET (Eastern Hemisphere) (Meeting Link) Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 9am ET. NOTE: This meeting takes place on Zoom but please check the Teams Work Group for information & updates (Meeting ID: 971 1680 7510 Passcode: 143545)

Open-Source Community WG: Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 11am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday art 11am ET.

Health Equity Journal Club: Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Wednesday of each month at 12pm ET.

FHIR and OMOP WG-Terminologies Subgroup: Wednesday, Oct. 19 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: 477364)

Medical Imaging WG: Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 7pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Wednesday alternating between 7am and 7pm ET.

Medical Devices WG: Thursday, Oct. 20 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the fourth Thursday of each odd month at 10am ET. THIS MEETING IS TENTATIVE

Data Quality Dashboard Development WG: Thursday, Oct. 20 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Thursday at 10am ET

HADES WG: Thursday, Oct. 20 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the third Thursday of each month at 12pm ET. THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED

FHIR and OMOP WG-Oncology Subgroup: Thursday, Oct. 20 at 12pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every Thursday at 12pm ET

OMOP CDM Oncology- Vocabulary /Development Subgroup: Thursday, Oct. 20 at 1pm ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 1pm ET

GIS-Geographic Information System WG GENERAL Meeting: Friday, Oct. 21 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, Oct 24 at 10am ET (Meeting Link)
Meetings are traditionally scheduled for every other Monday at 10am ET

OHDSI SHOUTOUTS

• Congratulations to the team of Woo Kyung Bae, Jihoon Cho, Seok Kim, Borham Kim, Hyunyoung Baek, Wongeun Song, and Sooyoung Yoo on the publication of Coronary Artery Computed Tomography Angiography for Preventing Cardio-Cerebrovascular Disease: Observational Cohort Study Using the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics’ Common Data Model in JMIR Medical Informatics.

• Congratulations to the team of Vaclav Papez, Maxim Moinat, Erica A Voss, Sofia Bazakou, Anne Van Winzum, Alessia Peviani, Stefan Payralbe, Michael Kallfelz, Folkert W Asselbergs, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Richard J B Dobson, and Spiros Denaxas on the publication of Transforming and evaluating the UK Biobank to the OMOP Common Data Model for COVID-19 research and beyond in JAMIA.

• Congratulations to the team of Lara J Kanbar, Judith W Dexheimer, Janet Zahner, Evanette K Burrows, Robert Chatburn, Amanda Messinger, Christopher D Baker, Christine L Schuler, Dan Benscoter, Raouf Amin, and Nathan Pajor on the publication of Standardizing Electronic Health Record Ventilation Data in the Pediatric Long-Term Mechanical Ventilator Dependent Population in Pediatric Pulmonology.

• Congratulations to the team of Najia Ahmadi, Yuan Peng, Markus Wolfien, Michéle Zoch, and Martin Sedlmayr on the publication of OMOP CDM Can Facilitate Data-Driven Studies for Cancer Prediction: A Systematic Review in the International Journal of Molecular Studies.

JOB POSTINGS

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

Thank you to everybody who came out for the OHDSI 2022 Symposium this past weekend. All materials (videos, slides, Collaborator Showcase research) will be posted when available. Please check out our symposium homepage to find everything when it is posted.

Kindly fill out the symposium evaluation form! Symposium Evaluation Form

Best Contribution to Showcase Voting Form
The deadline for the Best Contribution to the Showcasse is 10pm ET today! Please vote!

• The 2022 Titan Award winners were announced during the closing of the 2022 OHDSI Symposium. Congratulations to all of our winners, and to the 50+ individuals or groups who were nominated! Visit our Titan Awards homepage to learn more about the awards and to see all past recipients.

Data Standards: Melanie Philofsky, Odysseus Date Services

Methodological Research: Fan Bu, UCLA

Open-Source Development: Egill Fridgeirsson, Erasmus MC and James Gilbert, Janssen Research and Development

Clinical Applications: Xintong Li, University of Oxford

Community Collaboration: Ajit Londhe, Boehringer Ingelheim

Community Leadership: Paul Nagy, Johns Hopkins University

Community Support: Craig Sachson, Columbia University

• Volume 2 of Our Journey: Where the OHDSI Community Has Been, And Where We Are Going was announced and presented at the OHDSI Symposium. A PDF of the updated book is now available on OHDSI.org.

• EHDEN is hosting its seventh and final open call for European data partners who are interested in mapping their patient data to OMOP. Through six open calls, EHDEN was welcoming 166 data partners across 26 countries to its federated network, and this is the final opportunity to join this effort. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 11.

• The 2022 Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held Nov. 12-13 at the Taipei Medical University in Taiwan. There will be both in-person and remote components to this event, which will include tutorials on Nov. 12 and the main conference on Nov. 13. More information and registration links are available here.

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