As shown in the agenda below, the first day consists of a nice mixture of presentations about the OHDSI journey and presentations from representatives of ongoing or starting projects.

In the afternoon we will have a Collaborator Showcase to learn more about European OHDSI activity and available tools, a presentation from the South Korean Chapter, and a panel discussion.

2018 OHDSI Europe Symposium March 23th – Agenda

Time	Description
8:00 – 9:00	Registration
9:00 – 9:10	Welcome to the European journey: OHDSI 2018 Speaker: Peter Rijnbeek, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics Erasmus MC Rotterdam Speaker: Hans van Leeuwen, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Erasmus MC Rotterdam
9:10 – 9:40	The Journey of OHDSI: Where have we been? Speaker: George Hripcsak MD, MS, Professor, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University Medical Center
9:40 – 10:10	The European OHDSI Initiative: Why are we here? Speaker: Peter Rijnbeek, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics Erasmus MC Rotterdam
10:10 – 10:40	The Journey of OHDSI: Where can we go together? Speaker: Patrick Ryan, PhD, Sr. Director and Head, Epidemiology Analytics, Janssen Research & Development; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
10:40 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Adoption of the OMOP-CDM: The European Health Data and Evidence Network (EHDEN) Speaker: Nigel Hughes, Scientific Director, JCI Patient Data for Research, Janssen, Belgium The German Data Network Speaker: Martin Sedlmayr, Professor, Institute for Medical Informatics and Biometry, TU Dresden, Germany Device Safety Data Network Speaker: Daniel Prieto, Associate Professor & NIHR Clinician Scientist, Oxford University, UK Data vendor perspective of adopting the OMOP-CDM Speaker: Ben Hughes, Senior Vice President Real-World & Analytics Solutions, IQVIA Industry perspective of using the OMOP-CDM Speaker: Erica Voss Associate Director, Epidemiology Analytics, Janssen Research & Development, U.S. A Mental Health Data Platform Speaker: Simon Lovestone, Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Oxford University, UK
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:45	OHDSI Collaborator Showcase: Poster presentations and open-source software demonstrations from OHDSI collaborators 'Bridging Europe' Networking
14:45 – 15:15	A success story: the adoption of the OMOP-CDM in South Korea Speaker: Rae Woong Park MD, PhD, Professor, Ajou University School of Medicine, South Korea
15:15 – 15:45	Break
15:45 – 16:45	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 Research & Development
16:45 – 17:00	Closing Remarks Speaker: Peter Rijnbeek, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands
	Drinks

The second day we will have the tutorials. See the Symposium page for more information about the tutorials.

March 24th Tutorials

8:30 – 9:00am	Registration
9:00am - 17:00pm	Common Data Model & Standardized Vocabulary
9:00am - 17:00pm	OHDSI Tool Ecosystem