WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join us for the March 17 community call (11 am ET) as we launch our first Workgroup Spotlight session of 2026.
This week, we are diving deep into the foundations of our community: the Common Data Model (CDM) and HADES workgroups. Our leads will share their core missions, celebrate recent milestones, and outline critical research objectives for the year ahead.
We will conclude the session with a live Q&A, offering a direct line to the experts steering these essential open-source tools.
Featured Speakers:
• Clair Blacketer (Director, Johnson & Johnson) — CDM Workgroup Lead
• Anthony Sena (Director, Johnson & Johnson) — HADES Workgroup Lead
Everybody is invited. If you didn’t receive a call invite, please use this link to join. The call schedule and previous recordings can be found on the community calls page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Anton Barchuk, Cesar Barboza, Julieta Politi, Berta Raventós, Peter Prinsen, Jelle Evers, Vincent Ky Ho, Michiel Aj Van de Sande, Eric Fey, Kimmo Porkka, Anna Hammais, Tiina Wahlfors, Tuomo Nieminen, Toni Lehtonen, Antonella Delmestri, Guillaume Verdy, Romain Griffier, Airam De Burgos-González, Ana Llorente-Garcia, Cristina Justo-Astorgano, Miguel-Angel Macia-Martinez, Olli Tenhunen, Anja Schiel, Alexandra Pacurariu, Ross Brennan, Ross Williams, Katia Verhamme, Talita Duarte Salles on the recent publication of Characteristics, treatment and survival of patients with chondrosarcoma in five European countries: a DARWIN EU® cohort study in acta oocologica.
• Congratulations to the team of Junmo Kim, Namkyeong Lee, Jiwon Kim, and Kwangsoo Kim on the recent publication of MedRep: medical concept representations for general electronic health record foundation models in JAMIA.
• 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 recent publication of Identification of Adult Patients With Dermatomyositis Using Real-World Data Sources in Arthritis Care & Research.
• Congratulations to the team of Matthew Spotnitz, John Giannini, Emily Clark, Yechiam Ostchega, Tamara Litwin, and Lew Berman on the recent publication of Assessing data quality of rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis patients in the All of Us Research Program in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
OHDSI UPDATES
• The UK Symposium has been set for September 18 at the University of Nottingham, preceded by an OMOP Training Day on September 17. Please register to stay updated on the agenda, training sessions, registration and the call for abstracts.
• The Winter 2026 Vocabulary Release was shared recently, and members of the leadership team shared several key updates during the March 3 community call; you can watch that presentation now.
• The latest edition of the monthly OHDSI newsletter is now available. This edition includes details on the OHDSI Europe Symposium, workgroup and community updates, a ‘My Journey’ video profile of Sarah Seager, a collaborator spotlight focus on Cindy Chen, community updates, February publications and more. If you don’t get the monthly newsletters in your inbox, you can subscribe here.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Europe Symposium, which will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam. There were more than 140 submissions for the collaborator showcase, and those are currently being reviewed. The main conference agenda has been added to the event homepage.
• 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.
OHDSI SOCIAL SHOWCASE
• Research from the 2025 Global Symposium 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 — Simplifying Research that Involves Multiple Care Sites: insights and implementation at the US VA (Richard Boyce)
Tuesday — Using the OMOP Cohort Table to Link PRoMPT BOLUS Clinical Trial Participants to the PEDSnet Research Network (Levon H. Utidjian)
Wednesday — Scalable Big Data Workflow for OMOP CDM: Performance Optimization and Automated Quality Evaluation of Real-World Data (Danilo Luis Cerqueira Dias)
Thursday — AutoSPICT – Identifying End of Life Care Needs using an electronic implementation of the SPICT™ Questionnaire (Joseph S. Boyle)
Friday — dqdbt: Continuous Data Quality Testing for OMOP ETL with dbt (Katy Sadowski)
UPCOMING OHDSI EVENTS
• The 2026 OHDSI Europe Symposium will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and registration is open. The current agenda and registration info are both available on the event homepage.
• The UK Symposium has been set for September 18 at the University of Nottingham, preceded by an OMOP Training Day on September 17. Please register to stay updated on the agenda, training sessions, registration and the call for abstracts.
• The 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
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