WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join us for the March 10 community call (11 am ET), as we will highlight the evolving landscape of OHDSI education and mentorship through several new platforms and programs. From local state initiatives to global fellowships and the debut of our new Community Dashboard, we invite you to see how we are building innovative pathways for knowledge sharing across our global network. Topics and presenters include:
• Educational Introduction (Paul Nagy, Johns Hopkins University)
• Welcome to the new OHDSI Community Dashboard (Robert Barrett, Johns Hopkins University)
• Launch of our OHDSI Maternal Health Fellowship (Shannon Stevenson, Emory University and Sean O’Reilly, Johns Hopkins University)
• Small State, Big Data: Advancing Health Informatics Education in Rhode Island through OHDSI (Liz Chen and Neil Sarkar, Brown University)
• Book of OHDSI in the Home Stretch (Sarah Seager, EPAM Systems and Christian Reich, Nemesis Health)
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI SHOUTOUTS
Congratulations to the team of Eng Hooi Tan, Danielle Newby, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Mandickel Kamtengeni, Antonella Delmestri, and the OPTIMA Consortium on the recent publication of Data Resource Profile: Prostate cancer data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink linked hospital records, mortality data and cancer registry standardized to the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership common data model (CPRD-PCa-OMOP) in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
• Congratulations to the team of Hanna Kätlin Ardel, Rainer Randmaa, Igor Bossenko, Gunnar Piho, and Peeter Ross on the recent publication of Toward bidirectional FHIR-OMOP CDM transformations using TermX to support the secondary use of real-world health data within a patient-centered digital health paradigm in Frontiers in Medicine.
• Congratulations to the team of Stella Tamana, Kristia Yiangou, Kalia Orphanou, Sotiroula Chatzimatthaiou, Petros Kountouris, and Francesco Cremonesi on the recent publication of FAIR data gaps and collaboration willingness among hemoglobinopathy research centers in Scientific Data.
• Congratulations to the team of Nicholas B. Hunt, Patrick Souverein, Marloes Bazelier, Nicola Barclay, Antonella Delmestri, Miriam Sturkenboom, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Helga Gardarsdottir, and Olaf Klungel on the recent publication of Implementation of OMOP and ConcePTION Common Data Models in CPRD GOLD: Risk of Bleeding and Cardiovascular Outcomes From Anticoagulant Use in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
• Congratulations to the team of Andrea Miquel-Dominguez, Eng Hooi Tan, Edward Burn, Antonella Delmestri, Talita Duarte-Salles, Asieh Golozar, Wai Yi Man, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Francesc Xavier Avilés-Jurado, Danielle Newby on the recent publication of Incidence and survival of head and neck cancers in the United Kingdom 2000–2021 in Cancer Epidemiology
OHDSI UPDATES
Columbia MD-PhD candidate Hsin Yi “Cindy” Chen, a 2025 OHDSI Best Community Contribution Award winner, is featured in our latest Collaborator Spotlight. An active member of the LEGEND initiative and the Methods and Eye Care workgroups, Cindy’s research focuses on causal inference and addressing complexities in large-scale observational data. In this interview, she discusses how her clinical training shapes her research and how OHDSI network studies help build global trust in science.
• The Winter 2026 Vocabulary Release was shared recently, and members of the leadership team shared several key updates during the March 3 community call; you can watch that presentation now.
• 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 — From Fragmentation to Federation: A Multi-Partner OMOP Implementation in Uganda Enabling Global Real-World Evidence Generation (Francis Kanyike)
Tuesday — Accelerating Analytics with Multi-source, OMOP-Conformed Data and Community Tools in a Cloud-Native Platform (Aleksandra Petkova)
Wednesday — Building an Oncology Data Lake to Enable Cancer Research: Lessons Learned from a Large Academic Health System (Shikha Kothari)
Thursday — Using Mondo to assemble rare disease cohorts in OMOP (Bryan Laraway)
Friday — Standardized Imaging Phenotyping and AI Validation for Tuberculosis Using Medical Imaging Extension for OMOP CDM and ATLAS (Huilin Tang)
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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