WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Educating a new generation of RWE healthcare researchers is a major focus for the OHDSI community. Please join our Sept. 23 community call (11 am ET) to hear about some recent efforts around OHDSI education and the lessons learned from those initiatives. We are happy to welcome the following community leaders during this session:
George Hripcsak
Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Topic: OHDSI Summer School at Columbia DBMI
Dani Prieto-Alhambra
Section Head and Professor in Health Data Sciences, University of Oxford
Deputy Director of DARWIN EU Coordination Centre and Professor, Erasmus MC
Topic: Real World Evidence Summer School at Oxford
Paul Nagy
Head of Biomedical Informatics and Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: OHDSI in Johns Hopkins Postgraduate Education / OHDSI Maternal Health Fellowship
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 Kim López-Güell, Martí Català, Daniel Dedman, Talita Duarte-Salles, Raivo Kolde, Raúl López-Blasco, Álvaro Martínez, Gregoire Mercier, Alicia Abellan, Johnmary T Arinze, Theresa Burkard, Edward Burn, Zara Cuccu, Antonella Delmestri, Dominique Delseny, Sara Khalid, Chungsoo Kim, Ji-Woo Kim, Kristin Kostka, Cora Loste, Miguel A Mayer, Jaime Meléndez-Cardiel, Núria Mercadé-Besora, Mees Mosseveld, Akihito Nishimura, Hedvig Me Nordeng, Jessie O Oyinlola, Roger Paredes, Laura Pérez-Crespo, Marta Pineda-Moncusí, Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita, Nhung T H Trinh, Anneli Uusküla, Bernardo Valdivieso, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Junqing Xie, Lourdes Mateu, and Annika M Jödicke on the publication of Clusters of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms: a latent class analysis across 9 databases and 7 countries in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
• Congratulations to the team of George Kafatos, Joe Maskell, Olia Archangelidi, and David Neasham on the publication of Validation of the transformed clinical practice research datalink (CPRD) GOLD and aurum data into the OMOP common data model in the Health Informatics Journal.
• Congratulations to the team of Aparajita Kashyap, Maryam Aziz, Tony Y Sun, Sharon Lipsky Gorman, Jessica Opoku-Anane, and Noémie Elhadad on the publication of Investigating racial disparities in drug prescriptions for patients with endometriosis in NPJ Women’s Health.
• Congratulations to the 86 individuals or teams who were nominated for a 2025 Titan Award. The winners will be announced during Wednesday’s closing session at the 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium. The nominees are: Agnes Kiragga • Akihiko Nishimura • Alexey Manoylenko • ALS TDI’s Real World Evidence Team • Andrew Williams • Andrew Kanter • Aniek Markus • Anna Ostropolets • Anthony Sena • Asieh Golozar • ATLAS Development Team • Ben Martin • Bill O’Brien • Bingyu Zhang • Carlos Diaz • Chungsoo Kim • Christopher Knoll • Clair Blacketer • Craig Sachson • Critical Path Institute’s Data Science and Data Engineering team • Cynthia Sung • Daniel Prieto-Alhambra • DARWIN-EU Team • Data4Life Team • Dave Kern • Davera Gabriel • Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine • Deran Mckeen • Diane Corey • Egill Fridgeirsson • Eric Fey • Evanette Burrows • Eye Care and Vision Research WG • FHIR to OMOP WG • Freija Descamps • German Soto • Greg Klebanov • Hannah Lee • Harry Reyes Nieva • HealthPartners Institute • Henrik John • Ian Braun • Ilse Vermeulen • IQVIA OMOP DARWIN Team • IQVIA OMOP Productized Analytics Team • James Gilbert • Jamie Weaver • Jared Houghtaling • Jason Hsu • Jenna Reps • Jiwon Um • Joel Swerdel • John Gresh • Justin Bohn • Katia Verhamme • Lars Halvorsen • Liesbet Peeters • Lotte Geys • Maarten van Kessel • Marc Suchard • Marti Catala Sabate • Martijn Schuemie • Marty Alvarez • Maxim Moinat • Michael Matheny • Michel Walravens • Mike Pauley • Milou Brand • Mitchell Conover • Mukkesh Kumar • OHDSI Belgium Team • Patricia Mabry • Patrick Ryan • Pavan Sudhakar • Peter Hoffmann • Peter Rijnbeek • Polina Talapova • Renske Los • REWARD Team • Richard Boyce • Roger Carlson • Sam Patnoe • SciForce Team • Treatment Patterns Team • Vaccine Vocabulary Team • Will Roddy
OHDSI UPDATES
A scholarship honoring the late Jamie Weaver has been created at the University of Oxford, and applications are now being accepted. This 3-year PhD funded studentship will focus on ‘Improving the quality of real world evidence by measuring and minimising outcome misclassification using the OMOP common data model and large multinational health data,’ research that Weaver was leading during his time as a PhD trainee at Oxford. More information and application details are available here.
• The pioneers behind FHIR, openEHR and OMOP have aligned their visions, clarified how the standards fit together, and set out a roadmap for scaling responsibly and sustainably. They will lead a workshop Monday, Sept. 29 (7-8 am ET) called “Delivery, Not Hype: How to Harmonise FHIR × openEHR × OMOP in practice” to focus on how to make it work in practice. Use this link to join the session.
• The agenda for the 2025 Global Symposium is now available. This includes plenary topics and presenters, lightning talks, tutorial faculty and more.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from 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 — SNOMED_SEARCH: A pipeline for evaluating the feasibility of integrating BIFAP, a partially standardized database, into collaborative OMOP Clinical Data Model studies (Hermenegildo Martinez-Alcala)
Tuesday — Refresh of the HemOnc in OHDSI Standardized vocabularies: following the best practice of the community contribution (Oleg Zhuk)
Wednesday — Standardized Terminology Gap Analysis In OHDSI Vocabularies For The Critical Care Domain And Modular Extension Strategy: Progress From The Bridge2AI For Clinical Care CHoRUS Project (Polina Talapova)
Thursday — Moving towards standard observation period settings for OMOP-based EHR data: results from the HERON-UK network (Andy South)
Friday — Progress Toward Integrating Multimodal Data with the OMOP CDM (Jared Houghtaling)
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
• The agenda for the 2025 Global Symposium is now available. This includes plenary topics and presenters, lightning talks, tutorial faculty and more.
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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