Peter Rijnbeek is Assistant Professor at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam where he is leading the Health Data Science group at the Department of Medical Informatics (www.healthdatascience.nl). He is co-leading the European Health Data and Evidence Network (EHDEN) project funded through the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), that aims to standardise a large amount of databases to the OMOP-CDM in the upcoming 5 years and create a high quality European data network. Dr Rijnbeek is the coordinator of the European OHDSI chapter that organises a yearly symposium (www.ohdsi-europe.org) and supports the adoption of the OMOP-CDM.