WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join us Tuesday, Oct. 14 (11 am ET) for our annual post-symposium “Welcome to OHDSI” community call. We were thrilled to see so many new collaborators joining us at the 2025 Global Symposium, and we want to share how everybody can move forward together in the OHDSI community. This call can benefit both newcomers and veterans in OHDSI.
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 Pawel Rajwa, Angelika Borkowetz, Thomas Abbott, Andrea Alberti, Katharina Beyer, Anders Bjartell, James T Brash, Andrew Chilelli, Eleanor Davies, Bertrand De Meulder, Tamas Fazekas, Asieh Golozar, Ayman Hijazy, Andreas Josefsson, Veeru Kasivisvanathan, Raivo Kolde, Daniel Kotik, Michael S Leapman, Marcin Miszczyk, Rossella Nicoletti, Peter Prinsen, Sebastiaan Remmers, Maria J Ribal, Juan Gómez Rivas, Lara Rodriguez-Sanchez, Monique J Roobol, Emma Smith, Robert Snijder, Carl Steinbeisser, Hein V Stroomberg, Giorgio Gandaglia, Philip Cornford, Susan Evans-Axelsson, James N’Dow, Peter-Paul M Willemse and the PIONEER Consortium on the recent publication of Observational Health Data Analysis of the Cardiovascular Adverse Events of Systemic Treatment in Patients with Metastatic Hormone-sensitive Prostate Cancer: Big Data Analytics Using the PIONEER Platform in European Urology Focus.
• Congratulations to the team of Parvaneh Badri, Ivonne Hernández, Justin Long, Maryam Amin, and Reid Friesen on the recent publication of Chronic orofacial pain and psychological distress: findings from a multidisciplinary university clinic in the Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache.
• Congratulations to the team of Justin Bohn, James P. Gilbert, Christopher Knoll, David M. Kern and Patrick B. Ryan on the recent publication of Large-scale Empirical Identification of Candidate Comparators for Pharmacoepidemiological Studies in Drug Safety.
• Congratulations to our 2025 Titan Award winners, as announced during the Global Symposium!
Data Standards: Polina Talapova
Methodological Research: Joel Swerdel
Open-Source Development: Aniek Markus, Maarten van Kessel, Jared Houghtaling
Clinical Applications: DARWIN EU Team
Community Collaboration: Liesbet Peeters, Ilse Vermeulen, Lotte Geys
Community Support: Agnes Kiragga
Community Leadership: Greg Klebanov
OHDSI UPDATES
The deadline to vote for #OHDSI2025 Best Community Contribution Honorees is today at 5 pm ET. Please vote for our award winners from the 2025 Collaborator Showcase.
The Symposium evaluation form can be found here Microsoft Forms
• Join leaders in the OHDSI community November 17–18 in Toronto for the first pan-Canadian event to bring stakeholders from across Canada who are engaged in OMOP CDM transformations and research. The event will advance efforts to establish a Canadian OHDSI node and provide an opportunity to connect, collaborate, and gain insights into Canada’s OMOP landscape. Learn more about this event here.
• There is a new tutorials homepage on OHDSI.org that hosts all tutorials from past Global/US Symposia, as well as tutorials from the SOS Challenge. Future tutorials will also be added here.
• Registration is now open for the 2026 Summer School in Observational Health Data Science & Informatics, AI, and Real World Evidence, which will be held June 22-26 at the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics. Now in its second-year, the Columbia OHDSI Summer School provides health professionals, researchers, and industry practitioners with an immersive, hands-on training to working with real-world health data and generating real-world evidence (RWE). Participants will explore the types of healthcare data captured during routine clinical care—such as electronic health records and administrative claims—and learn how to standardize these data using the OMOP Common Data Model to support collaborative, distributed research as part of a data network.
• 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 minimizing 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.
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 — Taxonomy development as an approach to harmonize source-level data (Maryia Rahozhkina)
Tuesday — Coordinating center-based, rather than self-deployed, data readiness assessment and improvement for oncology RWE (Asieh Golozar)
Wednesday — A Modular Framework for Data Harmonization: Enhancing Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare ETL Pipelines (Isaac Claessen)
Thursday — Vocabulary Versioning System for OMOP-CDM: Enabling Vocabulary Management Across Studies (Tasmeia Yousaf)
Friday — Enhancing Data Quality Assessment in Healthcare Research: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework Using OMOP CDM (Júlia Moita)
UPCOMING OHDSI EVENTS
The first-ever 2025 OHDSI Africa Symposium will be held Nov. 10-12 in Kampala, Uganda, and registration is open. A tentative agenda has been posted on the event homepage.
• The 2025 OHDSI Asia-Pacific Symposium will be held Dec. 6-7 in Shanghai, China. Registration is open, and agenda details will be shared when available.
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