WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Join us Tuesday, Nov. 18 (11 am ET) for an update on the DARWIN EU® Initiative. DARWIN EU, recipient of the 2025 Titan Award for Clinical Applications, is a European Medicines Agency–led network that uses real-world healthcare data across Europe to generate evidence on how medicines are used, how safe and effective they are, and to support regulatory decision-making. DARWIN-EU is led by numerous OHDSI community members and uses both the OMOP CDM and OHDSI tools to generate reliable real-world evidence.
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 Berta Cuyàs, Edilmar Alvarado-Tapias, Eng Hooi Tan, Asieh Golozar, Talita Duarte-Salles, Antonella Delmestri, Josepmaria Argemi, Wai Yi Man, Edward Burn, Carlos Guarner-Argente, Daniel Prieto Alhambra, and Danielle Newby on the recent publication of Trends in incidence, prevalence, and survival of primary liver cancer in the United Kingdom (2000–2021) in the European Journal of Public Health.
• Congratulations to the team of Melissa Finster, Markus Wenzel and Elham Taghizadeh on the recent publication of Common data models and data standards for tabular health data: a systematic review in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
OHDSI UPDATES
• There is a new tutorials homepage on OHDSI.org that hosts all tutorials from past Global/US Symposia, including all six tutorials from the recent Global Symposium.
• The latest Our Journey annual report is now on the OHDSI homepage. This 134-page PDF provides an overview of the OHDSI community, including a look at its collaborators and collaborative activities, its research areas and tools, its work with standardized data and vocabularies, and nearly 900 publications that have come from the community.
• 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.
Job Openings
• Erasmus MC recently posted job openings for both a Health Data Scientist and a PhD student in medical informatics. More details and an application link are available on the respective pages. The closing date for both positions is Nov. 17.
Upcoming Events
• 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.
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 — PREPARE-Rehab: Personalized rehabilitation via novel AI patient stratification strategies using the OMOP-CDM standard (Carlotte Kiekens)
Tuesday — Transforming clinical data from innovative European Cancer Precision Medicine projects: The PRIME-ROSE Example (Maria Martin Agudo)
Wednesday — Advancing Epidemiological Research in Africa: Federated Infrastructure, Data Harmonization, and Knowledge Transfer for Scalable Public Health Insights – Technical contribution of the BRIDGE NETWORK project (Emma Gesquiere)
Thursday — Developing a strategy for the standardisation of Cancer Research UK funded data (Jasmine Handford)
Friday — RAG-Enhanced LLM Pipeline for Semantic Mapping of Context-based Features to OMOP Vocabulary (Sariga Kakkamani)
UPCOMING OHDSI EVENTS
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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