WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join our Sept. 10 (11 am ET) community call for a session focused on updates from our Asia-Pacific (APAC) collaborators. We will hear about recent research, collaborations and the upcoming APAC Symposium (Dec. 4-8 in Singapore) from leads of six OHDSI regional chapters:
• Jason Hsu (Taiwan)
• Seng Chan You (Korea)
• Keiko Asao (Japan)
• Nicole Pratt (Australia)
• Lei Liu (China)
• Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng (Singapore)
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 Ahmed Elhussein, Ulugbek Baymuradov, NYGC ALS Consortium, Noémie Elhadad, Karthik Natarajan and Gamze Gürsoy on the publication on A framework for sharing of clinical and genetic data for precision medicine applications in Nature Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
The team of Liwei Wang, Andrew Wen, Sunyang Fu, Xiaoyang Ruan, Ming Huang, Rui Li, Qiuhao Lu, Andrew E Williams, and Hongfang Liu posted Adoption of the OMOP CDM for Cancer Research using Real-world Data: Current Status and Opportunities on a preprint server and seek community feedback.
• The team of Noah Jones, Ming-Chieh Shih, Elizabeth Healey, Chen Wen Zhai, Sonali Advani, Aaron Smith-McLallen, David Sontag, and Sanjat Kanjilal posted Adoption of the OMOP CDM for Cancer Research using Real-world Data: Current Status and Opportunities on a preprint server and seek community feedback.
• Nominations for the 2024 Titan Awards are due this Friday, Sept. 13. The Titan Awards recognize OHDSI collaborators (or collaborating institutions) for their contributions towards OHDSI’s mission; they are nominated and voted upon by members of the community.
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held the Wednesday, Sept. 11 (11 am – 12 pm). We are excited to welcome Martí Català Sabaté, Medical Statistician and Data Scientist at the University of Oxford, who will provide a presentation on “Observational methods for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness research: an empirical evaluation and target trial emulation.” You can use this link to join the session.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Registration information will be posted when available.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Europe 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 — OHDSI in Africa and Partnerships with European Institutions (Cynthia Sung)
Tuesday — ARACHNE Data Node and Execution Engine runtime to enable network studies (Konstantin Yaroshovets)
Wednesday — How metadata empowers MedDRA hierarchies and mappings (Mikita Salavei)
Thursday — Enhancing Clinical Data Management and Utilization with the Data2Evidence Platform (Karthik Seetharaman)
Friday — Baseline characterization and treatment pathways of patients with Alport Syndrome across geographies: Exploring a rare disease in a multi-database retrospective cohort study (Katrin Manlik)
OHDSI GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM
• Registration is now open for the 2024 Global Symposium , which will be held Oct. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., USA. The three-day event will feature tutorials on Day 1, plenaries and the collaborator showcase on Day 2, and workgroup activities on Day 3.
• Day 1 will open with a single tutorial in the morning: An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence using OHDSI. There will be four advanced tutorials during the afternoon: Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data Model; So, You Think You Want To Run an OHDSI Network Study?; and Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research. You can select your tutorials during the registration process.
The agenda for the main conference day of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium is now available.
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