Dec. 10, 2024
During the Dec. 10 community call, Patrick Ryan reflected on the goals, accomplishments and unfinished work for the OHDSI community in 2024. The session highlights monthly studies, open-source developments, community activities, individual accomplishments, and plenty more.
Community Updates
• Congratulations to the team of Mengjia Kang, Jose Alvarado-Guzman, Luke Rasmussen, and Justin Starren on the recent publication of Evolution of a Graph Model for the OMOP Common Data Model in Applied Clinical Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Kyulee Jeon, Woo Yeon Park, Charles Kahn Jr, Paul Nagy, Seng Chan You, and Soon Ho Yoon on the recent publication of Advancing Medical Imaging Research Through Standardization: The Path to Rapid Development, Rigorous Validation, and Robust Reproducibility in Investigative Radiology.
• Thank you to Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and the full leadership team for leading the 2024 Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium last week. Slides and photos from the event are now available on the event homepage.
• The CDM Survey subgroup invites colleagues who have or are going to design, develop, and/or implement research surveys and use them with the OMOP CDM to share information about those efforts by completing this survey. Your completion of this 10-15 minute survey will provide information to the CDM workgroup about OMOP utilization among survey research teams. The CDM Survey subgroup is a collaborative effort, led by a team at the National Cancer Institute, to develop standardized approaches and best practices for helping research teams better integrate survey data elements into the OMOP common data model. The survey will remain open through Dec. 31, 2024.
• Cindy Cai is the Jonathan and Marcia Javitt Rising Professor of Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University and a retina specialist seeing patients at the Wilmer Eye Institute’s locations in the Baltimore, Maryland area. Her primary focuses are in medical and surgical retina treatments, including: diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema, and age-related macular degeneration. A co-lead of the Eyecare and Vision Research Workgroup, Cindy is currently leading another OHDSI network study focused on Semaglutide and Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy. The 2024 Titan Award for Clinical Applications honoree, she discusses her career journey, her experience running her first community network study, opportunities in vision research using real-world data, and plenty more in the latest collaborator spotlight.
• The latest edition of The Journey Newsletter is now available. The latest edition includes 13 recent published studies, community updates, the latest collaborator spotlight, OHDSI presentations, and more.
• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. All Tuesday tutorial videos are also posted now. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Registration is open.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Best Practices for Developing Disease-Specific Federated Networks: Insights from a Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Study (Clair Blacketer)
Tuesday — A Computable Phenotype for Time Toxicity of Elective Tracheostomy (Abigail Martin)
Wednesday — Comparative Study of Informer, Prophet, and SARIMA Time Series Forecasting Models for Predicting Pneumonia-Related Hospitalizations and Emergency Room Visits in Elderly Patients Using OMOP-CDM (Seonghwan Shin)
Thursday — Comparative Effectiveness Research of Aflibercept and Bevacizumab in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema: A Bayesian Causal Inference Study Using Real-world Data to Update Evidence from the Randomized Controlled Trial (Kyungseon Choi)
Friday — Determinants and persistence of medication adherence and its influence on health outcomes based on national health database (Kerli Mooses)
Job Openings
• Cynthia Sung announced a new opening for a Senior Program Officer, Public Health Surveillance, Data Integration, and Artificial Intelligence at the Gates Foundation. This role will focus on public health informatics and AI for the Foundation’s cross-cutting public health surveillance initiative and will also support other groups in the Pneumonia & Pandemic Preparedness Team that are considering investments in public health informatics and AI.
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How Did OHDSI Do in 2024? | Community Updates
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