WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Our Vocabulary team recently posted its Winter 2026 Vocabulary Refresh, and leaders from the team will join our March 3 community call (11 am ET) to highlight critical domain changes and newly added concepts. Everybody is invited! This session will be led by:
• Anna Ostropolets (Associate Director, Johnson & Johnson; Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University)
• Masha Khitrun (Senior Scientific Curation Specialist, EPAM Systems)
• Dmitry Dymshyts (Associate Director, Johnson & Johnson)
Technical update: While most of the OHDSI emails and MS Teams access have been restored, we will remain in the Columbia Teams environment for this session. Please use this link to join!
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Hyesil Jung, Sooyoung Yoo, Seok Kim, Jeehae Chung, and Ho-Young Lee on the recent publication of Transforming nursing documentation data into the Observational Medical Outcomes Partners common data model in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
• Congratulations to the team of Maria Martin Agudo, Henk Van der Pol, Gabriel Bratseth Stav, Tina Kringelbach, Katarina Puco, Åsmund Flobak, Hans Gelderblom, Kjetil Taskén, Gro Live Fagereng, Eivind Hovig, and the PRIME-ROSE Consortium on the recent publication of ‘Crossing borders’ in data standardisation: application of OMOP CDM in an international clinical trial network in precision cancer medicine in Acta Oncologica.
• Congratulations to the team of Shahin Hallaj, Michael Boland, William Halfpenny, Jonathan Myers, Robert Weinreb, Linda Zangwill, and Sally Baxter on the recent publication of PyOPV: An Open-Source Python Package for Ophthalmic Visual Field Data Management in the Journal of Glaucoma.
• Congratulations to the team of Borham Kim, Wongeun Song, Eunsil Yoon, Seok Kim, Ho-Young Lee, Jee Hyun Kim, Koung Jin Suh, Kwang-Il Kim, So Yeon Park, Eun-Kyu Kim, Se Hyun Kim, Seonghae Yoon and Sooyoung Yoo on the recent publication of Transforming unstructured breast cancer pathology reports into the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision-Making.
OHDSI UPDATES
We are seeking volunteers for the Scientific Review Committee to help evaluate submissions for the OHDSI Europe Collaborator Showcase. If you are interested, please fill out this form by March 3. Our first meeting is Thursday, March 5, at 11 am ET.
• The UK Symposium has been set for September 18 at the University of Nottingham, preceded by an OMOP Training Day on September 17. Please register to stay updated on the agenda, training sessions, registration and the call for abstracts.
• The latest edition of the monthly OHDSI newsletter is now available. This edition includes details on the OHDSI Europe Symposium, workgroup and community updates, a ‘My Journey’ video profile of Sarah Seager, a collaborator spotlight focus on Cindy Chen, community updates, February publications and more. If you don’t get the monthly newsletters in your inbox, you can subscribe here.
• Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 Europe Symposium, which will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam. There were more than 140 submissions for the collaborator showcase, and those are currently being reviewed. The main conference agenda has been added to the event homepage.
• 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 — Automated OMOP Concept Mapping Using Multi-Agent Large Language Models and Graph-Enhanced Semantic Retrieval (Adil Ahmed)
Tuesday — DARWIN EU® – Assessing Frailty and Polypharmacy in Oncology within OMOP Common Data Model: A Real-World Data Approach (Julieta Politi)
Wednesday — A Configuration-Only, Sharable Pipeline for Stable Zero-Shot CDM Grounding of NLP Targets (That You Can Run on a Pretty Good Laptop) (Georgina Kennedy)
Thursday — Metalexis, A Scalable, Sustainable Platform for Collaborative Multilingual Scientific Translation of the OHDSI Book; potential evolution towards AI-enabled Living Knowledge Networks (Michel J.F. Walravens)
Friday — Preliminary Evaluation of Common Data Elements Coverage of Oncology Clinical Trials’ Eligibility Criteria within OMOP (Adit Anand)
UPCOMING OHDSI EVENTS
• The 2026 OHDSI Europe Symposium will be held April 18-20 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and registration is open. The current agenda and registration info are both available on the event homepage.
• The UK Symposium has been set for September 18 at the University of Nottingham, preceded by an OMOP Training Day on September 17. Please register to stay updated on the agenda, training sessions, registration and the call for abstracts.
• 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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