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OHDSI Symposium ‘Bridging Europe’ – March 23th, 2018

The first European OHDSI Symposium called "Bridging Europe" aimed to establish a European OHDSI community.

The main symposium took place on Friday March 23th 2018 at the educational center of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Saturday March 24th 2018 was dedicated to tutorials.

The symposium had more than 200 participants, 40 posters, and 5 software demos.

Video recordings can be found on the OHDSI YouTube Channel .

Sessions (Slides)

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Sessions (Slides)

Download the slide decks for each session.

Session 1

Welcome to the European journey: OHDSI 2018

Peter Rijnbeek · Hans van Leeuwen

Session 2

The Journey of OHDSI: Where have we been?

George Hripcsak, Columbia University Medical Center

Session 3

The European OHDSI Initiative: Why are we here?

Peter Rijnbeek, Erasmus MC Rotterdam

Session 4

The Journey of OHDSI: Where can we go together?

Patrick Ryan, Janssen R&D / Columbia University

Session 5

Adoption of the OMOP-CDM (Lightning talks)

  • Nigel Hughes — EHDEN
  • Martin Sedlmayr — German Data Network
  • Daniel Prieto — Device Safety Data Network
  • Ben Hughes — Data vendor perspective
  • Erica Voss — Industry perspective
  • Simon Lovestone — Mental Health Data Platform
Session 6

A success story: adoption of the OMOP-CDM in South Korea

Rae Woong Park, Ajou University School of Medicine

Session 7

Expert Panel: Adoption of the OMOP-CDM in Europe — opportunities and challenges

Moderator: Patrick Ryan

  • Johan van der Lei (Erasmus MC)
  • Kees van Bochove (The Hyve)
  • Christian Reich (IQVIA)
  • Jim Slattery (EMA)
  • Montse Soriano Gabarró (Bayer AG)
  • Michel van Speybroeck (Janssen R&D)
Session 8

Closing Remarks

Peter Rijnbeek, Erasmus MC Rotterdam


Tutorials

[ TUTORIALS ]

Tutorials

Materials from the tutorials held March 24, 2018.


Symposium Handouts

[ RESOURCES ]

Symposium Handouts

Agenda and handouts from the 2018 symposium.


Posters

[ POSTERS ]

Posters

PDFs can be viewed by clicking on the poster title.

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Sponsors

[ THANK YOU ]

Sponsors

Below is the sponsor image from the original 2018 page.

OHDSI Symposium 2018 sponsors

Open sponsors handout (PDF)