WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Happy New Year! Please join our first community of 2026 on Tuesday, Jan. 13 (11 am ET) for a discussion on where our community can move together in 2026, and what steps we need to take to get there.
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 Ka Hee Yoo,Kyung Joo Lee,Sang Min Lee,Changwoo Han,Rae Woong Park and Young Tak Jo on the recent publication of Comparative effectiveness of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors versus serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors in the risk of diagnostic conversion from unipolar depression to bipolar disorder in the International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice.
• Congratulations to the team of Ori Berger, Shaked Menashe, Shiri Damti Geva, Reychel Yakubov, Maor Ben Yehuda, Mor Peleg, and Ran Talisman on the recent publication of Lipomas are associated with a higher prevalence of metabolic syndrome components: a multicenter cross-sectional study in Frontiers in Endocrinology.
• Congratulations to the team of Ever Augusto Torres-Silva, Juan José Gaviria-Jiménez, Ana María Guevara-Zambrano, Laura Herrera-Almanza, and José Flórez-Arango on the recent publication of Synthetic data from a common data model for artificial intelligence applications in maternal health: experience report in the Colombian context in Biomedica.
• Congratulations to the team of Ylenia Murgia, Roberta Gazzarata, Mario Ciampi, Mario Sicuranza, Franco Cirillo, Christian Esposito, Norbert Maggi, Gabriella Balestra, Lucia Sacchi, and Mauro Giacomini on the recent publication of The challenges of national health data ecosystems in feeding the European health data space: the Italian example in Frontiers in Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Weihao Cheng and Zekai Yu on the recent publication of Toward semantic interoperability of imaging and clinical data: reflections on the DICOM-OMOP integration framework in JAMIA.
• Congratulations to the team of Srinivas R. Sadda, Charles C. Wykoff, Itay Chowers, Jean-Francois Korobelnik, Raja Narayana, Rajeev R. Pappuru, Frank G. Holz, Robyn Guymer, Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung, David S. Boyer, Michael Ip, Heiko G. Niessen, Nancy Holenkamp, Mary Durbin, Stephanie Magazzeni, Anne-Marie Cairns, Carlos Ciller, Natasa Jovic, Joseph Blair, Sandro De Zanet & Aaron Y. Lee on the recent publication of Initiation of a global consortium to study the progression of age-related macular degeneration: RIMR AMD consortium report # 1 in Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.
• Congratulations to the team of Henk Van der Pol, Tina Kringelbach, Maria Martin Agudo, Gabriel Bratseth Stav, Gro Live Fagereng, Marta Fiocco, Ragnhild Sørum Falk, Victoria Homer, Soemeya Haj Mohammad, Hans Timmer, Loic Verlingue, Åslaug Helland, Kristoffer Rohrberg, Ulrik Lassen, Sarah Halford, Katriina Jalkanen, Tanja Juslin, Matthew G Krebs, Julio Oliveira, Edita Baltruskeviciene, Kristiina Ojamaa, Kjetil Taskén, and Hans Gelderblom on the recent publication of Procedures of data merging in precision cancer medicine: the PRIME-ROSE project in Acta Oncologica.
• Congratulations to the team of Guannan Gong, Jessica Liu, Sameer Pandya, Cristian Taborda, Nathalie Wiesendanger, Nate Price, Will Byron, Andreas Coppi, Patrick Young, Christina Wiess, Haley Dunning, Courtney Barganier, Rachel Brodeur, Neal Fischbach, Patricia LoRusso, Lajos Pusztai, So Yeon Kim, Mariya Rozenblit, Michael Cecchini, Anne Mongiu, Lourdes Mendez, Edward Kaftan, Charles Torre Jr, Harlan Krumholz, Ian Krop, Wade Schulz, Maryam Lustberg, and Pamela L Kunz on the recent publication of Clinical Trial Patient Matching: A Real-Time, Common Data Model and Artificial Intelligence-Driven System for Semiautomated Patient Prescreening in Cancer Clinical Trials in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Jessica Liu, Sameer Pandya, Andreas Coppi,H. Patrick Young, Harlan M. Krumholz, Wade L. Schulz, Guannan Gong on the recent publication of Assessment of the integrity of real-time electronic health record data used in clinical research
OHDSI UPDATES
Workgroups will play an important role this year in both the OHDSI community and our community calls, starting with OKR announcements during the first two February sessions. Workgroup leads, please fill out this brief form to let us know when you would like to present OKRs and when/if you plan to lead a session about your workgroup.
• The 12th annual OHDSI Global Symposium will return to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., Oct. 20-22, 2026. All pertinent information will be added to this page when available. Currently, the OHDSI steering group is seeking proposals for both plenaries and tutorials. The deadline for both is January 30, 2026; more details are available on the event homepage.
• Dr. Swetha Kiranmayi Jakkuva is a healthcare professional with over 14 years of experience spanning clinical practice, research, and healthcare data management. Currently, she leads Research Enabling Services at Global Value Web (GVW), focusing on Real-World Data (RWD), Real-World Evidence (RWE), observational research, data standardization initiatives, and driving healthcare digital journeys with hospitals. She is committed to improving healthcare, using her clinical and data expertise to enhance patient care and outcomes in India and beyond. She discusses her career journey, how OHDSI aligns with her professional goals, the growth of OHDSI in India, and more in the latest collaborator spotlight.
• There is a new tutorials homepage on OHDSI.org that hosts all tutorials from past Global/US Symposia, including all six tutorials from the recent Global Symposium.
• The latest Our Journey annual report is now on the OHDSI homepage. This 134-page PDF provides an overview of the OHDSI community, including a look at its collaborators and collaborative activities, its research areas and tools, its work with standardized data and vocabularies, and nearly 900 publications that have come from the community.
• Registration is now open for the 2026 Summer School in Observational Health Data Science & Informatics, AI, and Real World Evidence, which will be held June 22-26 at the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics. Now in its second-year, the Columbia OHDSI Summer School 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.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2025 Global 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 — Know Before You Go: Lessons from the Creation of a registry-based Federated Network (Sarah Gasman)
Tuesday — Adaptation of the OMOP Common Data Model for Secondary Use of Public Databases on the Japanese Healthcare Information Platform (Takanori Yamashita)
Wednesday — Bayesian Model Averaging-inspired Evidence Synthesis in Federated Healthcare Studies (Shounak Chattopadhyay)
Thursday — OMCP Python Sandbox: Secure Clinical Data Analysis through Model Context Protocol (Zhangshu Joshua Jiang)
Friday — Psychiatry Focused Landscape Analysis of OMOP Standardized Real World Data (Callum Harding)
UPCOMING OHDSI EVENTS
The 2026 OHDSI Europe Symposium will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. While registration has not opened yet, the deadline for abstract submissions is Feb. 6, 2026.
• The 2026 OHDSI Global Symposium will be held Oct. 20-22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, N.J.
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