WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Jamie Weaver, a 2018 Titan Award recipient, keynote speaker at the 2021 OHDSI Global Symposium and collaborator with OHDSI members around the world, passed away recently at the age of 44. Please join our August 19 community call (11 am ET) to celebrate Jamie’s OHDSI legacy.
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 Benjamin Martin, Will Kelly, Hannah Morgan-Cooper, Thomas Falconer, Elizabeth Park, Priya Desai, David Fiorentino, Lorinda Chung, Sean Yen, Zachary Wang, Didem Saygin, Michael George, Gowtham A. Rao, Joel Swerdel, Azza Shoaibi, and Christopher A. Mecoli on the publication of Identification of Adult Dermatomyositis Patients Using Real-World Data Sources in Arthritis Care & Research.
OHDSI UPDATES
Nominations for the 2025 Titan Awards are now open. 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; please share your nominations before the Sept. 9 (8 pm ET) deadline.
• The agenda for the 2025 Global Symposium is now available. Specific information, including presenters, talk/poster/demo titles, and more will be added when available.
• The August 2025 newsletter is now available. It includes details and resources from the 2025 Europe Symposium, information and a call to action around the FHIR-to-OMOP Implementation Guide (IG), a new collaborator spotlight with Priya Desai, July publications and presentations, and plenty more.
• The CDM Survey Sub-Workgroup is relaunching the Landscape Assessment of Survey Data and the OMOP CDM, https://forms.gle/f18ufspAFT3jSYrk6 for the month of August in preparation for our workshop at the Global Symposium. If you have mapped survey data (in progress or complete) or plan to map survey data to the OMOP CDM and have not previously filled out the assessment or met with the workgroup we need you to complete the assessment so we can determine the state of surveys in OMOP and where appropriate share resources with the OHDSI community. If you have any questions or problems with access, email me at [email protected]. More information about the CDM Survey Sub-Workgroup can be found here Home · OHDSI/CdmSurveySubWg Wiki · GitHub.
• 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 — Insights from the first OHDSI Germany Study-a-thon (Michele Zoch)
Tuesday — Mapping Source Data to the OMOP Common Data Model for Telehealth in Chronic Heart Failure: Process, Challenges and Lessons Learned (Karl Kreiner)
Wednesday — Achieving consensus on a OMOP CDM used for federative automated surveillance in healthcare associated infections: A Delphi study (Sophie van Wingerden)
Thursday — Valuing Clinical Text: From information extraction to predictive modeling (Tom Seinen)
Friday — Loss function influence on hyperparameter optimization for observational healthcare prediction models (Fleur Vereijken)
UPCOMING OHDSI SYMPOSIA
GLOBAL OHDSI SYMPOSIUM, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, Oct. 7-9
• Registration for the 2025 Global Symposium including tutorials and workgroup meetings is now open! On Oct. 7th there will be an introductory tutorial during the morning session, and five advanced tutorials during the afternoon session. The plenary plus collaborator showcase will take place on Oct. 8th followed by the workgroup meetings on Oct. 9th.
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
Full Agenda Oct. 7 – 9
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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