OHDSI Tutorials

Education is at the heart of OHDSI’s mission, and these tutorials showcase the community’s commitment to sharing knowledge. Developed and taught by OHDSI faculty, they highlight tools, standards, and best practices that empower collaborators at every level to engage in open science and generate reliable evidence.

2025 Global Symposium

An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence Using OHDSI

Faculty: Erica Voss, Yong Chen, Katy Sadowski, Nicole Pratt, Roger Carlson, Chongliang (Jason) Luo

Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP Common Data Model

Faculty: Clair Blacketer, Karthik Natarajan, Evanette Burrows, Max Adulyanuksol, Maxim Moinat


Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research

Faculty: Anna Ostropolets, Vlad Korsik, Polina Talapova, Masha Khitrun

Clinical Characterization Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence

Faculty: Patrick Ryan, Aniek Markus, Hsin Yi “Cindy” Chen, Azza Shoaibi

Population-Level Effect Estimation Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence

Faculty: George Hripcsak, Martijn Schuemie, Linying Zhang, Tara Anand

Patient-Level Prediction Applications to Generate Reliable Real-World Evidence

Faculty: Jenna Reps, Egill Fridgersson, Ross Williams

2024 Global Symposium

An Introduction to the Journey from Data to Evidence Using OHDSI

Faculty: Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Jenna Reps, Mui Van Zandt, Erica Voss, Linying Zhang

Developing and Evaluating Your Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Process to the OMOP CDM

Faculty: Clair Blacketer, Evanette Burrows, Melanie Philofsky, Katy Sadowski


Using the OHDSI Standardized Vocabularies for Research

Faculty: Anna Ostropolets, Vlad Korsik, Azza Shoaibi, Polina Talapova, Oleg Zhuk

So, You Think You Want To Run an OHDSI Network Study?

Faculty: Yong Chen, Benjamin Martin, Nicole Pratt, Anthony Sena, Andrew Williams, Seng Chan You

Conducting ‘Off-The-Shelf’ Characterization Studies Using DARWIN EU® Tools and the OMOP CDM

Faculty: Edward Burn, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Martí Català Sabaté, Maarten van Kessel

2023 Global Symposium

Introduction to OHDSI

Faculty: Erica Voss, Christian Reich, Fan Bu, Martin Lavallee, Marc Suchard

2023 SOS Challenge: Focusing On The Full Process Of Leading A Network Study

Initiating A Network Study

Faculty: Marc Suchard

Data Diagnostics

Faculty: Clair Blacketer, Mui Van Zandt, Sarah Seager

Phenotype Development: Outcome Design

Faculty: Anna Ostropolets

Phenotype Development: Exposure Design​

Faculty: Christian Reich

Phenotype Evaluation

Faculty: James Gilbert, Azza Shoaibi

Analysis Design

Faculty: Patrick Ryan

Network Execution

Faculty: Jenna Reps, Jack Brewster

Study Diagnostics

Faculty: Fan Bu, George Hripcsak

Evidence Synthesis

Faculty: Yong Chen, Martijn Schuemie

Interpreting the Results

Faculty: Cindy Cai

2022 Global Symposium


Overview of the OHDSI Journey: Where are we going?

Faculty: Patrick Ryan

OMOP Common Data Model & Vocabulary/ ETL a source database into OMOP CDM

Faculty: Clair Blacketer, Melanie Philofsky

Creating cohort definitions

Faculty: Asieh Golozar

Phenotype evaluation

Faculty: Gowtham Rao

Characterization

Faculty: Kristin Kostka

Estimation

Faculty: Martijn Schuemie

Prediction

Faculty: Jenna Reps

Where Do We Go From Here?

Faculty: George Hripcsak

2020, 2021 Global Symposium

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 OHDSI Symposia were fully virtual events, featuring talks, community activities, a collaborator showcase and more. There was not a recorded tutorial in either event, but we invite you to visit the pages and check out the plenaries, showcase presentations and more.

2019 Global Symposium

The 2019 Symposium tutorials are available on the individual pages below, and are often broken into shorter videos in each session. Faculty is listed on each tutorial page.

2018 Global Symposium

The 2018 Symposium tutorials are available on the individual pages below, and are often broken into shorter videos in each session. Faculty is listed on each tutorial page.

2016 Global Symposium

The 2016 Symposium tutorials are available on the individual pages below, and are often broken into shorter videos in each session. Faculty is listed on each tutorial page.

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