Acknowledgements
The OHDSI/OMOP Train-the-Trainer program at ALS TDI is built on the work of many contributors — within ALS TDI, across the OHDSI community, and in the broader open science movement.
Program Development
Danielle Boyce, MPH — ALS Therapy Development Institute
Program lead, curriculum design, site materials, and ongoing coordination.
Danielle developed this training series to build OMOP/OHDSI capacity among ALS researchers and data partners working with the ALS TDI real-world evidence infrastructure. She is also a co-author of the Guide to Real-World Data for Clinical Research and co-instructor of the Introduction to OMOP course on Tufts CTSI iLEARN.
Pavel Goriacko, PharmD, MS — Montefiore Health System
Co-instructor, OMOP course; contributing expert on vocabulary and clinical informatics.
Contributing Organizations
ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI)
Provided institutional support, infrastructure, data, and the mission context for this program. The training series was designed to serve the ALS TDI OMOP data network and the researchers who use it.
OHDSI — Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics
This program is built entirely on OHDSI open-source tools and methods. The OHDSI community's investments in the OMOP CDM, Atlas, HADES, Athena, and the Book of OHDSI make programs like this possible. We are grateful to the global OHDSI community for their sustained commitment to open, reproducible health data science.
EHDEN — European Health Data & Evidence Network
The EHDEN Academy provides free, open training materials used as supplemental resources throughout this program.
ELIXIR / EXCELERATE
The ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train-the-Trainer repository served as an early structural model for open-network Train-the-Trainer programs.
Technologies and Infrastructure
This site is built with MkDocs and the Material for MkDocs theme. It is hosted via GitHub Pages from the ALSTDI/ALS-RWE repository.
Notebooks use Project Jupyter and are designed to run in Google Colab with no credentials required.
Community Contributors
Past cohort participants, trainers, and community reviewers have contributed questions, corrections, and improvements to these materials. Thank you to everyone who has attended a session, filed a bug report, or suggested a clarification.
How to Contribute
This is an open, living resource. If you find an error, have a suggestion, or want to contribute materials from your institution, please open an issue or pull request on the GitHub repository.
For questions about the program, contact the ALS TDI research team at als.net.