WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
The strength of OHDSI has always been its people, and our community is empowered every day by new collaborators joining the journey. Please join us Tuesday, July 28, at 11:00 am ET for our next Community Call, where we will welcome and introduce some of our newest members!
Are you new to OHDSI or looking to take on a bigger role? This call is the perfect opportunity to jump in and introduce yourself. We’d love to hear:
- Who you are and where you work
- Your research interests and expertise
- How you hope to contribute to the community
- How OHDSI can support your research journey
Whether you’re presenting or tuning in to welcome new colleagues, we look forward to seeing you there!
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 Haeun Lee, Benjamin Martin, Andreea A Creanga, Evan Minty, Asieh Golozar, Cindy X Cai, Cynthia Sung, Sean O’Reilly, Khyzer Aziz, and Paul Nagy on the recent publication of Assessment of real-world evidence research competencies in federated research networks: a maternal health fellowship program evaluation in JAMIA Open.
• Congratulations to the team of Josh Lemieux, Emily Pfaff, Richard Moffitt, Jay Nakashima, Raymond Duncan, Erica Galvez, John Giannini, Julie McMurry, Anita Walden, and Melissa Haendel on the recent publication of From clinics to discoveries: harnessing national EHR interoperability for research in JAMIA Open.
• Congratulations to the team of Irene López-Sánchez, Anna Palomar-Cros, Agustina Giuliodori, Laura Granés, Laura Pérez-Crespo, Berta Raventós, Edward Burn, Anton Barchuk, Annelies Verbiest, Caroline Eteve-Pitsaer, Danielle Newby, Elin Rowlands, Espen Enerly, Gargi Jadhav, Harlinde De Schutter, Jason Hsu, Jelle Evers, Josip Vrancic, Laia Peruchet-Noray, Lillian Sung, Loretta Kiss, Maaike Van Swieten, Mario Šekerija, Mees Mosseveld, Patricia L Mabry, Raivo Kolde, Samuel Patnoe, Seng Chan You, Subin Kim, Sulev Reisberg, Thi Kim Hien Nguyen, Toni Lehtonen, Tor Åge Myklebust, Zsolt Bagyura, Asieh Golozar, Elena Roel, and Talita Duarte-Salles on the recent publication of Temporal trends in epidemiology and patient characteristics of 36 cancers: a protocol for a multinational population-based cohort study using OMOP-standardised databases to investigate CANcer (OMOPCAN) in BMJ Open.
• Congratulations to the team of Kevin Haynes, Jenna Reps, Jill Hardin, Eva-Maria Didden, James Gilbert, Joel Swerdel, Justin Bohn, Mitchell Conover, Amir Sarayani, Anthony Sena, Emily Yost, Valerie van Baalen, Kourtney Davis, Patrick Ryan, and Martijn Schuemie on the recent publication of Active Safety Surveillance Using Real-World Evidence (ASSURE) Implementation: Transparent and Reproducible Real-World Evidence Standardized Framework to Support Safety Signal Evaluation in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.
• Conratulations to the team of Obinwa Ozonze, Ogechukwu Okonor, Uzondu Dike, and Taiwo Adedeji on the recent publication of Enabling interoperability across disparate health data sources using Large Language Models in PLOS Digital Health.
• Congratulations to the team of Dong Han Yu, Sun Mi Lim, Hyun Chul Shin, Moosung Kim, Seng Chan You, Rae Woong Park, and Chungsoo Kim on the recent publication of Data Resource Profile: Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service Korean nationwide claims OMOP CDM (2015–24) database, HIRA K-OMOP in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
OHDSI UPDATES
• Jenna Reps recently posted a call for developers with knowledge or interest in R or shiny or web development/design and UI and want to help out with HADES development in a new workgroup. If you are interested, please respond to the forum post.
• Peter Hoffmann provided a preview of the ATLAS 3 demo site during the July 7 community call. The ATLAS workgroup is looking for feedback about the new site. The demo is available here (Db Authenticaton enabled: use ohdsi/ohdsi, and anonymous access will be enabled in a future update). Discussions will be held here. Thank you for collaborating on this critical open-source tool for our community.
• Jiwon Um , a PhD student at Yonsei University in Korea, introduced a brief survey focusing on OHDSI in the Era of Medical AI. Medical AI is reshaping how observational research evidence is generated and used. The OHDSI community has spent more than a decade building infrastructure — OMOP CDM, standardized vocabularies, federated networks, open-source methodology — that may have a distinctive role in this transition. This survey asks how you, as a member of the community, see that role and the tensions surrounding it.
• A new call for papers is open for a Journal of Biomedical Informatics special issue focusing on agentic AI for generating trustworthy Real-World Evidence (RWE). The issue seeks contributions on multi-agent collaboration and coordinated autonomy across the RWE lifecycle—such as data harmonization and causal analysis—while excluding single-task AI agents. Submissions are accepted from June 15 through November 15, 2026, with publication slated for September 2027.
• The FALCON (Federated Alliance for Large-scale Cancer Observational Network) Research Network is dedicated to advancing real-world oncology evidence through federated health analyses. The network is hosting its 2026 Symposium and Bladder Cancer Studyathon from Sep. 28-Oct. 1 at Dunden in Antwerp, Belgium. This intensive four-day event kicks off with a general symposium followed by a three-day collaborative working session for researchers, clinicians, and data scientists to generate high-quality clinical evidence on the OMOP CDM.
• Take your OMOP CDM from implementation to impact with The OMOP Practitioner, an intensive three-day expert training hosted Sept. 7-9 by Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. This hands-on program moves beyond the basics, offering a maximum of 30 participants deep-dive experience with the Data Quality Dashboard, ATLAS, and real-world study execution.
OHDSI SOCIAL SHOWCASE
Research from the 2026 Europe 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 — The REALM Data Catalogue and Federation Model for Cohort-Driven Evaluation of Medical Device Software (Frederic Jung)
Tuesday — Comparing the representation of medicinal products in RxNorm Extension and SNOMED CT (Maryia Khitrun, Anna Ostropolets)
Wednesday — Explainable, Governance-Ready Clinical NLP Pipeline for OMOP-CDM Using Locally Deployed LLMs (Alisson Licona)
Thursday — OMOP SQL Generator Website Based on Generative AI (Angela Leis)
Friday — Mapping Our Future Health data to OMOP (Magda Meier)
OHDSI UPCOMING EVENTS
• The first OHDSI Latin America Symposium will be held July 30-31 in Salvador, Brazil. The event will include multiple workshops, including sessions focused on Introduction to OMOP, Cohort building, ETL for OMOP, and Scientific collaboration: opportunities for network studies in Latin America.
• The UK Symposium will be held September 18 at the University of Nottingham, preceded by an OMOP Training Day on September 17.
• Registration is open for the 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium, held Oct. 20–22 at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, N.J. You can also read more about our 12 new tutorial offerings and workgroup activities which will take place during the event.
Book your Hyatt Guestroom now: Group Booking | Hyatt Events
• The 2026 OHDSI APAC Symposium will take place Nov. 13-15 at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. This will be a 3-day event, kicking off with the main conference and then including tutorials and a datathon during the weekend. Registration has not opened yet, but please check the event homepage for details on the agenda and registration.
• The third annual OHDSI India Symposium has been scheduled for December 11th in Chennai. More details and registration information will be shared with the community as they become available.
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