WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
The Jan. 20 community call will focus on fostering strategic collaborations for the year ahead. Following a series of community updates, participants will join breakout sessions to share their professional goals and identify specific opportunities for partnership.
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 UPDATES
• The team of Hsin Yi Chen, Thomas Falconer, Anna Ostropolets, Tara V Anand, Xinzhuo Jiang, David Dávila-García, Linying Zhang, Ruochong Fan, Hannah Morgan-Cooper, Marc A Suchard, and George Hripcsak recently posted the study Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects Across Nine Glucose-Lowering Drug Classes in Type 2 Diabetes: Extension of the LEGEND-T2DM Network Study on a preprint server. Community input is appreciated.
• 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.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Europe Symposium, which will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam. Submissions for the collaborator showcase are due Feb. 6. The main conference agenda has been added to the event homepage.
• 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 — OHDSI India Digital Health CoE and National Registry Pilots (Swetha Kiranmayi Jakkuva)
Tuesday — Mapping of oncology regimen data through an LLM-enhanced pipeline (Tatsiana Skuhareuskaya)
Wednesday — Quantifying EHR Continuity in the All of Us Research Program (Lina Sulieman)
Thursday — OMCP: Model Context Protocol Servers for the OMOP Common Data Model (Shihao Shenzhang)
Friday — Comparative Effectiveness of Ticagrelor vs. Prasugrel in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Chang Hoon Han)
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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