The University of Oklahoma recently hosted its inaugural Real-World Data and Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics training workshop through the Office of Clinical Research Informatics and the Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core, bringing together a multidisciplinary group of clinical and data scientists from across the university's three major campuses in Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. The workshop was designed to build institutional capacity for conducting large-scale real-world evidence research using the international OHDSI network.