Successful 2025 Secondary Data Symposium

The keynote speaker, Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH, President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine spoke about using secondary data to change national policy with providing examples from U.S. transplant system.

Obtaining grant funding using secondary data section was a popular portion, with presenters discussing topics such as using medical records data to conduct NIH-funded patients outcome research among their work and using state cancer registries in secondary data analyses.

The Ohio State University Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s designated data navigator is Dr. Ayse Odabas who is research scientist at the Center for Biostatistics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Odabas discussed the steps on how to obtain access to secondary data sources such as MarketScan, CMS Standard Analytic Files and EPIC COSMOS.

Overall attendance increased by 72.2% compared to last year, reaching a total of 198 attendees. Among these attendees, 78 attendees were from external academic institutions other than Ohio State or Nationwide Children’s Hospital (almost four times higher compared to last year) which included three attendees from international institutions.

When asked what goals the attendees plan to use secondary data for in their future work, they indicated using various data sources to submit NIH grants, using secondary data for their dissertation and using specific data sources such as All of Us.

Full List of Institutions 

1. The Ohio State University
2. Nationwide Children’s Hospital
3. Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
4. Battelle
5. Bon Secours Mercy Health
6. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
7. Central Ohio Behavioral Healthcare
8. Christiana Care Health System
9. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
10. Duke University
11. George Washington University
12. Kenya Medical Research institute – CVDC
13. Mercy Health
14. MetroHealth
15. Nemours
16. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India
17. Northwestern University
18. Ohio Association of Community Health Centers
19. Oregon Health & Science University
20. Portland State University
21. Stanford University
22. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
23. UCLA Health
24. University of Auckland
25. University of Connecticut
26. University of Delaware
27. University of Iowa
28. University of Kentucky
29. University of Miami
30. University of Minnesota
31. University of Nebraska Medical Center
32. University of Wisconsin – Madison
33. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
34. Vanderbilt University
35. Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
36. Wright State University