WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Our community has published more than 800 studies related to OHDSI or OMOP, and four lead authors will share recent publications during our July 22 community call (11 am ET) to present their recently published research.
David Sarrat-González/Juan R. González • Barcelona Institute for Global Health
dsOMOP: bridging OMOP CDM and DataSHIELD for secure federated analysis of standardized clinical data
Justin Bohn • Johnson & Johnson
Large-scale Empirical Identification of Candidate Comparators for Pharmacoepidemiological Studies
Dachung Boo • Yonsei University College of Medicine
Seonji Kim • Yonsei University College of Medicine
Everybody is invited. If you do not have a calendar invite, 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 Woo Yeon Park, Teri Sippel Schmidt, Gabriel Salvador, Kevin O’Donnell, Brad Genereaux, Kyulee Jeon, Seng Chan You, Blake E Dewey, Paul Nagy, and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative on the recent publication of Breaking data silos: incorporating the DICOM imaging standard into the OMOP CDM to enable multimodal research in JAMIA.
• Congratulations to the team of Jiayi Tong, Jenna M. Reps, Chongliang Luo, Yiwen Lu, Lu Li, Juan Manuel Ramirez-Anguita, Milou T. Brand, Scott L. DuVall, Thomas Falconer, Alex Mayer Fuentes, Xing He, Michael E. Matheny, Miguel A. Mayer, Bhavnisha K. Patel, Katherine R. Simon, Marc A. Suchard, Guojun Tang, Benjamin Viernes, Ross D. Williams, Mui van Zandt, Fei Wang, Jiang Bian, Jiayu Zhou, David A. Asch and Yong Chen on the recent publication of Unlocking efficiency in real-world collaborative studies: a multi-site international study with one-shot lossless GLMM algorithm in NPJ Digital Medicine.
OHDSI UPDATES
Thank you to everybody in the community who submitted brief reports. We had more than 150 submissions for our #OHDSI2025 Collaborator Showcase, which will be held Oct. 8 as part of the Global Symposium (more information below).
• Tiffany Callahan (Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist at SandboxAQ) will provide a talk (July 31, 11 am ET) on ‘Agentic Mixture-of-Workflows for Multi-Modal Chemical Search’ during the next edition of The Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine speaker series. This will be held on Zoom; please reach out to Marty Alvarez ([email protected]) if you are interested in joining the session.
• There is still time to let your voice be heard on the future of ATLAS. All surveys remain open and will help our ATLAS workgroup develop its future roadmap. You can find the surveys below, and they are also available on the ATLAS roadmap homepage, along with the demo videos.
• OHDSI is now on Bluesky! You can now get updates on all community activities and see all global research through the #OHDSISocialShowcase on Bluesky.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from both the 2024 UK Symposium and the 2025 Europe Collaborator Showcase is being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram and Bluesky social channels as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Adoption of the OMOP Common Data Model in the UK (Alex Knight)
Tuesday — OMOP model evaluation for representing GENIE oncology research project data (Vojtech Huser)
Wednesday — Cardiovascular Effects of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Advanced CKD: A Real-World Cohort Study Using TMUCRD OMOP-CDM and OHDSI Tools— A Foundation for Future Multinational OHDSI Network Collaboration (Christianus Heru Setiawan)
Thursday — Accelerating OMOP Common Data Model Adoption for Sustainable Cross-National Atopic Dermatitis Research: Implementation Across Five European Registers (Axel Hertzschuch)
Friday — Large-Scale Network Study on the Impact of Immune Checkpoint Therapy in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: The iCAN mNSCLC Study-a-Thon (Simon Thompson)
OHDSI SYMPOSIA
GLOBAL OHDSI SYMPOSIUM, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Oct. 7-9
• Registration for the 2025 Global Symposium is now open! You are now able to register for any of the tutorials as well. There will be an introductory tutorial during the morning session, and five advanced tutorials during the afternoon session.
OHDSI 2025 Morning Tutorials
An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence Using OHDSI Lead: Erica Voss
OHDSI 2025 Afternoon Tutorials
Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data Model Lead: Clair Blacketer
Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research Lead: Anna Ostropolets
Clinical Characterization Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: Patrick Ryan
Population-Level Effect Estimation Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: George Hripcsak
Patient-Level Prediction Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence Lead: Jenna Reps
Global Symposium links:
Please Register for the Symposium Here
Please book your hotel room here – Hyatt Regency NJ
Please fill out this form if you would like to host a collaboration event Oct. 7 Morning
Symposium Homepage
The first-ever 2025 OHDSI Africa Symposium will be held Nov. 10-12 in Kampala, Uganda, and registration is open. The abstract submission deadline will be Sept. 10. Agenda details will be shared when available.
The 2025 OHDSI Asia-Pacific Symposium will be held Dec. 6-7 in Shanghai, China. The abstract submission deadline will be August 25. More details will be shared when available.
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