WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETINGS
Exciting progress and momentum continue across the Asia-Pacific region, driving impactful open-science collaboration throughout the global OHDSI network. During our next community call on Tuesday, Aug. 25 (11 am ET), we will hear key updates, milestones, and future initiatives directly from the leads of six regional chapters: Australia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Join us to celebrate their achievements and discover new opportunities to collaborate with our growing APAC community.
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 Brenda Mbouamba Yankam, Fankoua Tchaptchet Luc Baudoin, François Anicet Onana Akoa, Pauline Andeso, Steve Bicko Cygu, Samuel Iddi, Michael Ochola, Tathagata Bhattacharjee, Mbele Onana Charles Lebon, Miranda Barasa, Agnes Kiragga, and Bertrand Hugo Mbatchou Ngahane on the recent publication of Harmonizing patient health data into the OMOP common data model: a case study using tuberculosis data from Douala General Hospital, Cameroon in Frontiers in Digital Health.
• Congratulations to the team of Ankur Lohachab, Frédéric Jung, Stef Rommes, Gökhan Ertaylan, Anshu Ankolekar, and Visara Urovi on the recent publication of SMART: structured, meaningful, auditable, responsible, and transparent documentation for clinical AI in JAMIA.
• Congratulations to the team of Marta Alcalde-Herraiz, Antonella Delmestri, Hezekiah Omulo, Elvira Bräuner, Susanne Bruun, Raeleesha Norris, Annika Vivirito, Alexander Harms, Jakov Vuković, Ivan Pristaš, Anamaria Jurčević, Marko Čavlina, Antea Jezidžić, Pero Ivanko, Saeed Hayati, Nhung T H Trinh, Hedvig Nordeng, Talita Duarte-Salles, Anna Palomar-Cros, Agustina Giuliodori, Antonio Gómez-Outes, Patrick Vrijlandt, María Clara Restrepo-Méndez, Edward Burn, Albert Prats-Uribe, and Anna Saura-Lazaro on the recent publication of Characterising Clinically Recognised Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in six European Countries Using Real-World Data in ESC Heart Failure.
• Congratulations to the team of Rinat Gabbay-Benziv, Esther Maor-Sagie, Amos Stern, Inna Bleicher, Simon Shenhav, Enav Yefet, Yifat Wiener, Michal Kovo, and Maya Frank Wolf on the recent publication of Gestational diabetes and maternal morbidity in multifetal pregnancies: independent contributions of GDM and plurality in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.
OHDSI UPDATES
• The OHDSI Titan Awards recognize those who have gone above and beyond to foster community engagement, lead research and development efforts, and make significant contributions towards OHDSI’s mission. Individuals, teams or collaborating institutions can be nominated for an award, and you can make as many nominations as you would like. Each nomination must include the nominee’s name, organization, email and a short paragraph describing why the collaborator(s) should be nominated for one of seven Titan Awards. Nominations will be accepted until 8pm ET Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. The 2026 Titan Awards Committee will be responsible for selecting the award winners. NOMINATE HERE
• The Common Data Model working group has been planning CDM v5.5 over the last 18 months and there is now a development version to share. Please take a look, review, and test in your environment if you are able. This version will be released alongside the August 2026 vocabulary and will support community needs and continued vocabulary updates.
• The CDM Survey Subgroup has shared a Best Practices for Mapping Standardized Assessment Instrument Data to the OMOP Common Data Model protocol. Learn more via the full proposal or this slidedeck. Please review and comment by Aug. 27.
• Registration is open for the 4-day OMOP School in Uppsala, Sweden on Oct. 13-16. There are fewer than 10 spaces remaining, so don’t wait until the final moment to register.
• 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.
Job Openings
• Adam Black shared openings for two new positions at Formation Bio, an AI driven pharma company. One position is Associate Director of RWD Intelligence, where you will lead the strategy and execution of our real-world data (RWD) capabilities, building the data foundations that power drug acquisition, clinical development, and portfolio decision-making. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of RWD: sourcing, procurement, ingestion, harmonization, quality assurance, and delivery of analysis-ready datasets to downstream consumers across Product, Data Science, Clinical Development, and Business Development.
• The second position at Formation Bio is for a Senior Data Scientist – Real World Data. This position sits at the intersection of healthcare data engineering, real-world evidence analysis, and generative AI. While a strong foundation in building reliable, scalable pipelines is essential, you’ll be equally expected to roll up your sleeves and work directly with the data—constructing cohorts, running analyses, and translating findings into actionable insights for scientific and business stakeholders. More details and an application link are available on both position links.
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 — Jackalope Plus Adventures: Benchmarking Automated Mapping and Charting a Path to OHDSI Vocabulary management system (Denys Kaduk)
Tuesday — Data Context Model for FAIR Health Data – The who, what, why, where, when and how (Esmond Urwin)
Wednesday — From FHIR to working with data at scale: a unified data architecture for living evidence generation (Jan Vekemans)
Thursday — Scaling Rare Disease Detection Across Multiple Pathologies using Generative AI and OMOP CDM (Gabriel de Maeztu)
Friday — ACROSS: Actionable, Collaborative, Reusable, interOperable Sepsis System (Jérémie Despraz)
OHDSI UPCOMING EVENTS
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.
• Registration is open for the 2026 OHDSI APAC Symposium, which 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. Please check the event homepage for details on the agenda and collaborator showcase.
• 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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