On October 30, 2020, CCADD and collaborating investigators had a workshop at Pocheon, Kyeonggi-do, to celebrate the consecutive two-year success for the common data model (CDM) expansion project. In this workshop, Prof. Howard Lee, Yoomin Jeon, Sium Kim, and Tae Kyu Chung summarized the project outcomes in the second year.

In a session, Tae Kyu evaluated the mapping rates of clinical terminologies, collected from the eligibility criteria, efficacy, and safety outcomes in sampled clinical trials at clinicaltrials.gov, to CDM standardized vocabularies. On the other hand, Prof. Lee detailed the pros and cons of the CDM analytical tools, such as the Atlas and methods Library, which may be used to conduct clinical trial feasibility, efficacy, and safety analysis in a virtual, simulation setting. After the presentations, the workshop participants actively engaged in an interactive discussion how to leverage the potentials of CDM, while minimizing its limitations, to clinical trials. They further discussed the project management plan for the upcoming year to improve project design, setup, execution, and close-out.

The CDM expansion project has been sponsored since 2019 by Korea Health Industry Development Institute through a three-year grant totaling 77 million Korean Won or $66,000. 

Jeong Ah Choi is an administrative assistant to Prof. Howard Lee and accountant. Jeong Ah has joined CCADD in June, 2020, and is in charge of budgeting, expense tracking and filing for the research projects of CCADD. Jeong Ah is also responsible for general office tasks such as coordinating meetings and events and record keeping. Prior to joining CCADD, Jeong Ah has worked at the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Ajou University, in the capacity of research budget administrator. Please welcome Jeong Ah!