Check out images from the 2019 OHDSI Symposium, held Sept. 16 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel, and make sure to follow OHDSI on Twitter and LinkedIn, as well as the OHDSI web site, for updates, soundbites and poster presentations from our 5th U.S. Symposium!
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- With the OHDSI Collaborator map highlighting the community’s international scope, George Hripcsak welcomes everybody and opens the day with an overview of OHDSI and important thoughts on how it measures its own success along the journey.
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- Harlan Krumholz followed George Hripcsak during the opening and told the crowd that OHDSI has the “power to create a collective wisdom around the world.”
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- We filled the ballroom at the Bethesda North Marriott.
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- Andrew Williams talks about the challenges and solutions of data collection, as well as the high-level tools OHDSI built to help collect reliable data for research.
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- Clair Blacketer discusses OHDSI data quality checks, and how community tools allow researchers to test for plausibility, conformance and completeness.
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- All eyes on the front of the room during the morning plenary session.
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- Patrick Ryan talks about using the new LEGEND project to replicate RCTs to generate real-world evidence.
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- Following the opening talks on real-world evidence, there was a stakeholder panel to discuss where we are with real-world evidence, where we can go, and how we can get there.
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- Fatemah Alnofal provided international perspective as a research specialist at the Saudi Food and Drug Authority.
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- Azadeh Shoaibi, PhD, MHS, shares perspective during the OHDSI stakeholder panel as the Lead of CBER Sentinel Program at the U.S. FDA.
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- Joseph Ross provided a clinical perspective during the panel as a professor of internal medicine at Yale.
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- Packed house in Bethesda for the 5th OHDSI Symposium!
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- The collaborator showcase featured nearly 80 posters and 10 software demos. You can see them all on our Collaborator Showcase page.
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- Posters, posters, posters!
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- Frank DeFalco shares the OHDSI-centric video game he created as part of the Creative Showcase.
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- Members of the Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics pose during the Collaborator Showcase. Columbia is the coordinating center for OHDSI.
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- Peter Rijnbeek highlights the EHDEN Academy as part of his software demo.
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- Mui Van Zandt discussed the incredible growth of OHDSI in Asia during the 2019 Symposium.
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- Lightning Talk #2: Rimma Belenkaya shares the great work done on the OMOP CDM Oncology Module.
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- Lightning Talk #3: Juan Banda is highlighting FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Phenotyping with APHRODITE.
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- Lightning Talk #4: Rupa Makadia discusses clinical trial feasibility through an OHDSI-enabled distributed network analysis.
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- Lightning Talk #5: Anastasiya Nestsiarovich presents her talk “Comparing 102 psychotropic drug regimens for diabetes mellitus risk.”
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- Lightning Talk #6: Seng Chan You highlights his work in “Net Clinical Benefit of Ticagrelor Compared to Clopidogrel in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome.”
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- Alison Callahan provided a lightning talk on “Delivering on-demand evidence via an informatics consult service” at the 2019 OHDSI Symposium.
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- Peter Rijnbeek opened the Community Evidence in Action session by discussing the EHDEN (European Health Data & Evidence Network) Consortium.
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- Dani Prieto-Alhambra shares the process and results of the Oxford study-a-thon on exploring knee arthroplasty. Dani will serve as host of the 2020 OHDSI European Symposium (March 27-29).
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- Ismail Gôgenur presents the work done on personalizing surgery for colorectal cancer within the Center for Surgical Science.
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- Gregory Klebanov discusses the OHDSI tools that were used in the Center for Surgical Science study on colorectal cancer.
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- Maura Beaton introduces the Women of OHDSI study on predicting breast cancer to improve screening.
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- Kristin Kostka discusses the steps that went into preparing a protocol for this study, and the OHDSI best practices and tools that promote this type of protocol.
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- Jenna Reps talks about producing a package to run against different databases and its impact in this study.
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- Anna Ostropolets shares the clinical findings from the Women of OHDSI study to close the Community Evidence in Action session.
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- Patrick Ryan closed the day with a speech that integrated five birthday cakes, Hamilton, the common data model and a challenge to the OHDSI community. (And it worked well!)
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- Patrick uses lyrics from the Hamilton song “Dear Theodosia” during his closing presentation.
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- Christian Reich sees (and soon eats) the first cake in the final presentation. It won’t be the last.
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- Let Christian eat (more) cake!
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- The cake for CDM V5 was a wedding cake, as CDM 5 brought together a standardized data model, standardized vocabulary and a community effort to help form OHDSI.
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- The Titan Award for Data Standards went to the Oncology Workgroup (presented by the 2018 winners, the Vocabulary Team).
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- The Titan Award for Methodological Research went to Jenna Reps (presented by 2018 winners Martijn Schuemie and Marc Suchard).
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- The Titan Award for Clinical Applications went to the members of the Oxford Study-A-Thon (presented by Seng Chan You).
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- The Titan Award for Open Source Development went to Pavel Grafkin (presented by 2018 winner Christopher Knoll).
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- The Titan Award for Community Collaboration went to Andrew Williams (presented by 2018 winners Mui Van Zandt and Kristin Kostka).
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- The Titan Award for Community Support went to James Wiggins (presented by 2018 winner Lee Evans).
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- The Titan Award from Community Leadership went to Peter Rijnbeek (presented by 2018 winner Rae Woong Park).
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- Thank you to everybody who came to the OHDSI Symposium!
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- Thank you to the sponsors who support OHDSI and helped us put on this memorable event!
