WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
The first OHDSI Maternal Health Fellowship was designed to empower early-stage clinical investigators to leverage emerging technologies for improved maternal and neonatal care while reducing morbidity and mortality. Fellows leveraged the NIH Maternal Health OHDSI Data Partner Network, comprised of seven US-based Academic Medical Centers. Four members of the program will join the May 13 (11 am ET) Community Call to share their research from the fellowship:
• Elizabeth Sherwin, Stanford University School of Medicine
Estimating the risk of severe maternal morbidity among pregnant people with congenital heart disease
• Elizabeth Howard, Ochsner Xavier Institute for Health Equity & Research
Risk of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Following Maternal Exposure to Buprenorphine vs Methadone Opioid Maintenance Therapy
• Sarah Murray, Centre for Reproductive Health, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh
Do antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) given to twins prior to planned birth (35-39 weeks’ gestation) reduce the risk of respiratory morbidity in the babies?
• Shannon Stevenson, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
Healthcare Utilization Within the First 12 Weeks Postpartum
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 David Sarrat-González, Xavier Escribà-Montagut, Jared Houghtaling, and Juan González on the recent publication of dsOMOP: Bridging OMOP CDM and DataSHIELD for Secure Federated Analysis of Standardized Clinical Data in Bioinformatics.
OHDSI UPDATES
• Andromeda 1.0.0 has been released. This is a major update, where we switch the backend from SQLite to DuckDB for greatly improved performance and smaller file sizes.
• The Industry Workgroup is hosting a two-day in-person studyathon, though it may also have a virtual component, May 29-30 in the Gilead Office in Troy Hills, N.J. You can register here, and more information the event is available here.
• The agenda for the 2025 OHDSI Europe Symposium (July 5-7) is available on its main page. The main conference will be held July 7, while tutorials and workshops are set for July 5-6. Registration is open and available on the homepage.
• Gabriel Maeztu is a medical doctor and mathematician revolutionizing healthcare with artificial intelligence. As the co-founder of IOMED, he has led the development of cutting-edge AI models, processing over 300 million medical records. Gabriel’s team served as a small-to-medium enterprise (SME) in the EHDEN project and engaged in building the diverse data network in Europe. He has presented posters at multiple OHDSI events, including one focused on NLP-derived OMOP results last year. In the latest edition of the collaborator spotlight, Gabriel discusses his career journey, how IOMED is impacting healthcare research, what he learned through his work with EHDEN, the critical value of advanced analytics, and plenty more.
• The ATLAS working group has put together a short survey to help identify who is using ATLAS in our community. If you are not using ATLAS, please also fill in this survey to help identify any barriers for adoption in your company/institution. Additionally, this survey will ask if you’d like to be interviewed for feedback on your usage of ATLAS. Data4Life is working closely with the working group to conduct interviews (~1hr) that will help inform the future direction of the application.
• The latest edition of the OHDSI newsletter is now available. This issue includes details on the open-source ecosystem, including all videos from DevCon 2025, community updates, 14 April publications, the latest collaborator spotlight, our May podcast, and plenty more. If you don’t receive the newsletter monthly, you can find it on the website or subscribe here.
• The OHDSI UK Conference will be held September 26 at the Wellcome headquarters in London. More details and registration information are available here. The deadline to submit your abstract for the conference is Friday, May 9; please use this link to submit.
• The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.
• The Columbia Summer School on OHDSI, which will be held July 14-18 at Columbia University, 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. Registration is now open and will be capped at 30 people.
• The next seminar from the Center for Advanced Healthcare Research Informatics (CAHRI) at Tufts Medicine will be held Thursday, May 29, at 9-10 am ET. Georgie Kennedy, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the Ingham Institute, will provide a talk on “Learning from Real-World Cancer Data: Maturing data pipelines to support research that impacts clinical care.” Please contact Marty Alvarez at [email protected] for calendar invite or questions.
• The Women of OHDSI host a monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything) within their Teams environment. Mui Van Zandt will be the May focus person; please join here and ask questions about Mui’s OHDSI journey, research, work with data, and more.
Save The Dates
• The 2025 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Agenda and registration information will be shared when available. The submission deadline for the 2025 Collaborator Showcase is July 1. The showcase will be accepting both posters and software demos, as well as interest in hosting lightning talks. You can submit your brief report(s) here.
• Registration is open for the Europe Symposium, which will be held July 5-7 in the “Old Prison” building of Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium. The agenda for all three days is available on the website.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase has been shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. This week is the final week of highlighting research, but look for more posters and demos from the community coming soon. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Bridging the Language Gap: Generative Models for Efficient Medical Concept Discovery (Alvaro Alvarez)
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