Onboarding

Teams we work closely with:

  • Data Warehousing (Snehil, Shinji, Nicole, Barry, John, Rob, Steve, Warren, Trudy)
  • Platform Engineering & REDCap (Suhas, Warren, Jack, Ian, Chris S, Alvin, Chris L., Indraniel, Nicole)
  • New Bioinformatics Core (Madhu)

How do we communicate?

  • Teams
    • You should get added to the following chats:
      • Data Brokerage Team
      • Data Broker/Warehouse
    • You should get added to the following teams:
      • I2 Data Services (General, Administration and Operations, Data Brokers, REDCap (if necessary))
      • Epic Tier 5 Community (after getting Epic Tier 5 access)
    • Other teams you may get added to as needed
      • OHIDS Migration
      • RedCap
      • WUSTL REDCap User Community
      • Financial Review-Effort Reporting
  • Email
  • Zoom or Teams meetings

File sharing and resources

Important meetings

The schedule and links to all of the below meetings can be found here.

Name Purpose
Data Brokerage Scrum A quick team check-in meeting to discuss what we've been working on, what we plan to work on and any thing blocking progress.
WUCAT Meeting Discuss any issues noticed while working with EPIC or Clarity data.
Sprint Retrospective Look back at the sprint to highlight things that went well, didn't go so well or could be improved.
Sprint Planning Time to assign projects and check on the status of all assigned projects.
BYOB Sprint Planning Same as above for those classified as "Bring Your Own Brokers (BYOB)"
Team Building Team building meeting
I2 Research/Data Services Team Meeting Meeting with the Informatics Data Core Service to check in, meet new employees, and receive updates.
RDC Meeting Research Data Core Meeting with updates on the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model
I2DB Town Hall Department wide meeting for all of Informatics, Data Science & Biostatistics (I2DB)

Suggested Learning Plan

  • Initial orientation to Teams, DevOps, TrackingTime, Box
  • SQL training (if needed) see the Learning Resources section of the Data Brokers OneNote
  • OHDSI training for overview of OMOP
  • Practice accessing RDC using Shinji’s sample code
  • Databricks intro, review some of the Data Lake training videos
  • EPIC training (when available)

Updated on August 7, 2025