A Texas community of researchers and clinicians learning Epic Cosmos together, from the Texas Medical Center and across the UT System, and the home of the Texas-wide Cosmos Datathon.
Convened at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston. Open to Cosmos users across Texas.
Contact to joinThe idea
Shared with Epic, then approved by Epic and MSBMI leadership
Aug 2024
First meeting of interested Cosmos users
Sep 2024
Monthly Lunch & Learn begins
May 2025
Datathon proposed to the group
Mar 13, 2026
First Datathon
Apr 2026
Student subgroup proposed
Oct 16, 2026
Second Datathon
Coming soon
DSVM workforce and service
UTHealth Houston: Elmer Bernstam, Xiaoqian Jiang, Jiajie Zhang, Babatope Fatuyi
Baylor College of Medicine: Roni Matin, Ang Li, Andrew Zimolzak
Houston Methodist: Masayuki Nigo, Khush Patel
March 13, 2026
Call for Proposals, judging rubric, audience voting and a dinner the evening before.
October 16, 2026
8:00–10:00 a.m. CT at MSBMI, 7000 Fannin St, Suite 600, Houston. Group dinner October 15. Proposals reviewed and ranked, accepted projects given a DSVM, judging against a shared rubric.
Proposed April 23, 2026 and led by Sai Manikonda. A structured way for students to join Cosmos projects.
A trained workforce and service for working with DSVM environments. Details to be announced.
Sep 26, 2024
Cosmos access and process, training, EHR-to-Cosmos data flow, descriptive analysis
Oct 31, 2024
Follow-up on UTHealth-to-Cosmos data flow
Group discussion
Jan 30, 2025
Presentation by Jessica Hernandez
Jessica Hernandez
Feb 27, 2025
Using Epic Cosmos to Validate Clinical Risk Prediction Model in Patients with Active Cancer
Ang Li
Mar 27, 2025
Using Cosmos for rare diseases: MOGAD use case
Mousumi Sinha
May 29, 2025
Mental health disorders, substance abuse and tobacco use with head and neck cancer stage at diagnosis
Jun 26, 2025
Epic Cosmos: Building your big-data observatory
Gabriel Najarro, Emory University
Nov 6, 2025
Cosmos use case: Periodontal interventions impact on HbA1c levels
Yida Wang
Jan 29, 2026
Identifying irAEs associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and their incidences in lung cancer
Liwei Wang and Mousumi Sinha
Apr 23, 2026
Risk of GERD, erosive esophagitis, and Barrett’s esophagus after sleeve gastrectomy: a longitudinal Epic Cosmos study
Sai Manikonda
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