Here is OpenSourceResearch Collaboration’s quarterly newsletter.
In this newsletter you can read about our projects and events.
We hope you enjoy it!
Kindly,
Communication team
AI Workshop in India
After a meticulous planning and huge efforts from OSRC members in India especially Dr. Asif Mehraj and Hafsa Dar, OSRC is pleased to announce the coming workshop in Kashmir India on the 28 to 29th October 2022.
The workshop will focus on artificial intelligence principals and its implementations in surgery. The workshop will be a dynamic educational activity with open discussions and group work. At the end of the workshop, it is expected that the participants will learn skills about artificial intelligence and those who are interested, can carry on with opensourceresearch collaboration projects.
For registration and more information about the workshop, please visit our website.
If you a member of OSRC and interested in teaching and/or organising educational activities, please contact us to arrange for your travel and accommodation in the coming educational activities.
OSRC Fellowship program
We have preliminary agreements with Oslo, Aalborg and Århus universities to host OSRC fellowship programs in these universities.
The host will provide commendation and logistic support while OSRC will provide supervision.
The fellowship program is planned for members of OSRC from developing countries. The fellowship program is based on a visit to Denmark and Norway for a period of 3 to 6 months. During this period the fellow will work on OSRC’s project, help in administration of OSRC’s activities and network with the host university.
We would like to give priority to members who have been active in supporting OSRC’s activities locally and internationally.
We shall announce these fellowship programs on our website and on our social media platforms when the agreements are signed with the above-mentioned universities.
Stay tuned.
Partnerships and Collaboration
OpenSourceResearch Collaboration continues to attract partners. We have established a partnership with Rhino health which is a data management company using the artificial intelligence to analyse medical data. Rhino health will provide support to OSRC educational activities and be a partner in funding. In the same vein, we established a partnership with Frontiers publication that will improve our publication visibility and impact.
Another very important partnership has been agreed with British Journal of Surgery (BJS). Our members will get advantages such as discount on subscription, BJS academy, online access in addition to this OSRC will get support from BJS society to our annual meeting and awards.
We would like to encourage OSRC members to help us in contacting and establishing dialogue with organisations, universities and medical industry. This will strengthen the profile of the organisation as well as our members.
Although two thirds of all members are free membership because they come from developing countries, we are still pleased about the increase in membership which reflects enthusiasm about innovation in medical research.
Please encourage your colleagues to join us.
All are invited.
All welcome in OSRC.
Update about OSRC research projects
Our project about visualisation of blood vessels in preoperative CT scans of abdomen to predict the anastomotic leak, started recruiting in two sites in Denmark. We have also a team in Turkey progressing in a good pace.
Natural language processing project to read healthcare records is in designing phase now. We have collaborators from a couple of Norwegian universities. We need a fully dedicated investigator to the project. This project might be associated with the fellowship program.
It took one month of hard-working to write proposal to COST Association.
COST Association is EU funding agency to promote networking in Europe. COST aims to encourage innovation via multidisciplinary team work.
We applied for COST Association last year but we didn’t get the fund.
This time we are applying again with better application and more diverse proposers from Europa and internationally including IT scientists and computer companies working with healthcare.
Thanks to all members and partners who joined this proposal.
We cross fingers.
OSRC annual meeting
We are planning our first face-to-face annual meeting in the autumn 2023.
Anyone who would like to join the organising committee please contact us.
In this meeting we will announce OSRC awards for the best innovation and the best paper investigating innovation in surgery.
See you in Aalborg- Denmark
How OSRC will manage its activities?
We would like to build local teams in the countries where we have more than 20 members. These local teams will arrange OSRC activities, connect OSRC members in the country and be part of OSRC projects running in these countries.
We need team leaders.
If you feel you like the idea to be a team leader in your country and get skills in leadership, communication, organisation and administration please contact us.
New OSRC website is alive
A professional web design office has developed OSRC's website and increased OSRC ranking on search engines' lists.
Do you have suggestions? we would be happy to hear your thoughts.
