CTSC:TTIC.090908 - Revision history

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Ctempany: /* Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes September 9, 2008 */

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Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes September 9, 2008

CarolynZyloney at 14:45, 17 September 2008

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CarolynZyloney at 16:57, 10 September 2008

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CarolynZyloney at 01:19, 10 September 2008

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CarolynZyloney at 19:16, 9 September 2008

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CarolynZyloney at 18:29, 9 September 2008

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 Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in imaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiaisonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
 * XNAT engineers
-There is need to hire two skilled computer scientists to work collaboratively on image data bioinformatics. Our proposal is that one will be hired by CTSC IT central and supervised by Shawn Murphy and Zak Kohane and their team and will work with the Imaging Consortium on deploying an XNAT data management system at each i2b2 Hive. The second XNAT engineer will work collaboratively with the first so that the XNAT software can be customized to support each individual clinical translational scientist using it. The two XNAT engineers will work collabortativly with Bill Hanlon and his team to build a system to facilitate the transfer of clinical imaging data from each institution into their respective XNAT instance and will work to facilitate the transfer of data between XNAT instances across institutions.
+There is need to hire two skilled computer scientists to work collaboratively on image data bioinformatics. Our proposal is that one will be hired by CTSC IT central and supervised by Shawn Murphy and Zak Kohane and their team and will work with the Imaging Consortium on deploying an XNAT data management system at each i2b2 Hive. The second XNAT engineer will work collaboratively with the first so that the XNAT software can be customized to support each individual clinical translational scientist using it. The two XNAT engineers will work collaboratively with Bill Hanlon and his team to build a system to facilitate the transfer of clinical imaging data from each institution into their respective XNAT instance and will work to facilitate the transfer of data between XNAT instances across institutions.
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 '''3. Job positions to be created and filled'''<br>
 *Imaging Information and Analysis Liaison/Imaging Navigator/Triage Consultant:
-Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in imaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiasonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
+Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in imaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiaisonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
 * XNAT engineers
 There is need to hire two skilled computer scientists to work collaboratively on image data bioinformatics. Our proposal is that one will be hired by CTSC IT central and supervised by Shawn Murphy and Zak Kohane and their team and will work with the Imaging Consortium on deploying an XNAT data management system at each i2b2 Hive. The second XNAT engineer will work collaboratively with the first so that the XNAT software can be customized to support each individual clinical translational scientist using it. The two XNAT engineers will work collabortativly with Bill Hanlon and his team to build a system to facilitate the transfer of clinical imaging data from each institution into their respective XNAT instance and will work to facilitate the transfer of data between XNAT instances across institutions.
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 '''3. Job positions to be created and filled'''<br>
 *Imaging Information and Analysis Liaison/Imaging Navigator/Triage Consultant:
-Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in neuroimaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiasonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
+Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in imaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiasonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
 * XNAT engineers
 There is need to hire two skilled computer scientists to work collaboratively on image data bioinformatics. Our proposal is that one will be hired by CTSC IT central and supervised by Shawn Murphy and Zak Kohane and their team and will work with the Imaging Consortium on deploying an XNAT data management system at each i2b2 Hive. The second XNAT engineer will work collaboratively with the first so that the XNAT software can be customized to support each individual clinical translational scientist using it. The two XNAT engineers will work collabortativly with Bill Hanlon and his team to build a system to facilitate the transfer of clinical imaging data from each institution into their respective XNAT instance and will work to facilitate the transfer of data between XNAT instances across institutions.
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 * Bill Hanlon
 * Laura Alice
-* Steven Voss
+* Stephan Voss
 * Randy Gollub
 * Clare Tempany

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 * Carolyn Zyloney
 * Gordon Harris
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 '''2.    Image Data Management and Medical Imaging Informatics''' <br/>
 Sharing imaging data between sites is difficult due to HIPAA regulations and security. For each study that requires sharing data between institutions, a policy must be developed to regulate it.
-The consortium does not plan on developing a central archive of imaging data. Based on the systems in use by Bill Hanlon, Gordon Harris, and the Dana Farber Cancer Center's Tumormetrics Core, it seems possible to develop a system to work with each hospital's IT groups to facilitate the transfer of data. The group acknowledges that there is still a great deal of work that needs to be done but expresses enthusiasm in continuing the effort to support multi-site clinical imaging studies
+The consortium does not plan on developing a central archive of imaging data. Based on the systems in use by Bill Hanlon, Gordon Harris, and the Dana Farber Cancer Center's Tumormetrics Core, it seems possible to develop a system to work with each institutions XNAT instance to facilitate the transfer of data. The group acknowledges that there is still a great deal of work that needs to be done but expresses enthusiasm in continuing the effort to support multi-site clinical imaging studies
 '''3. Job positions to be created and filled'''<br>

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 '''Action Items (details below)'''
-#  A draft of the consultation service web-page will be posted on the CTSC wiki for review during next week's teleconference
+#  Post a draft of the consultation service web-page on the CTSC wiki (Randy Gollub)
-#  Create a draft of job descriptions
+#  Create a draft of job descriptions (Randy)
-#  A discussion of the IT services needed by the Imaging Consortium
+#  Formulate a list of the IT services needed at your site (everybody)
 == Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes September 9, 2008 ==
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 *an explanation of who is eligible to utilize these services
 *a form for requesting consulting services
-The Imaging group's consultation web-page will be posted on the Harvard Catalyst website on October 15th. There was universal agreement among the Imaging Consortium that requests for consultation services should be submitted online via a web-based form and should be linked to an RSS feed to notify Imaging Consortium members of new consultation requests. The web-based system will allow for tracking of requests and the time required to respond to those requests as well as allow for the collection of outcometrics. This idea of a web-based submission of requests will be proposed to Genetics and Biostatistics and discussed with the the CTSC IT team, including Douglas MacFadden.The Consortium will serve as consultants and will use the weekly teleconference to discuss consultation requests and train a new consultation triage person. Randy Gollub volunteered to serve as the triage consultant until the Imaging Consortium can hire a triage person.
+The Imaging group's consultation web-page will be posted on the Harvard Catalyst website on October 15th. There was universal agreement among the Imaging Consortium that requests for consultation services should be submitted online via a web-based form and should be linked to an RSS feed to notify Imaging Consortium members of new consultation requests. The web-based system will allow for tracking of requests and the time required to respond to those requests as well as allow for the collection of outcome metrics. This idea of a web-based submission of requests will be proposed to Genetics and Biostatistics and discussed with the the CTSC IT team, including Douglas MacFadden.The Consortium's individual members will serve as consultants and will use the weekly teleconference to discuss consultation requests and train a new consultation triage person. Randy Gollub volunteered to serve as the triage consultant until the Imaging Consortium can hire a triage person.
-The consortium agreed that the consulting service will focus on domains in which the consortium currently possesses expertise in, including CT, MRI, and PET. However, the consortium will consider extending the consulting service to additional domains on demand. Randy Gollub has approached Ellen Grant, who has agreed to provide some minimal but helpful assistance with pediatric neuroimaging.
+The consortium agreed that the consulting service will focus on domains in which the consortium currently possesses expertise in, including CT, MRI, and PET. However, the consortium will consider extending the consulting service to additional domains on demand. Randy Gollub has approached Ellen Grant, who has agreed to provide some minimal but helpful assistance with pediatric neuroimaging consultations.
 '''2.    Image Data Management and Medical Imaging Informatics''' <br/>
 Sharing imaging data between sites is difficult due to HIPAA regulations and security. For each study that requires sharing data between institutions, a policy must be developed to regulate it.
-The consortium does not plan on developing a central archive of imaging data. Based on the systems in use by Bill Hanlon, Gordon Harris, and the Dana Farber Cancer Center's Tumormetrics Core, it seems possible to develop a system to work with each hospital's IT groups to facilitate the transfer of data.
+The consortium does not plan on developing a central archive of imaging data. Based on the systems in use by Bill Hanlon, Gordon Harris, and the Dana Farber Cancer Center's Tumormetrics Core, it seems possible to develop a system to work with each hospital's IT groups to facilitate the transfer of data. The group acknowledges that there is still a great deal of work that needs to be done but expresses enthusiasm in continuing the effort to support multi-site clinical imaging studies
 '''3. Job positions to be created and filled'''<br>
-*Imaging Information and Analysis Liason/Imaging Navigator/Triage Consultant:
+*Imaging Information and Analysis Liaison/Imaging Navigator/Triage Consultant:
 Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in neuroimaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiasonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
 * XNAT engineers
-There is need to hire two skilled computer scientists to work collaboratively on image data bioinformatics. One is to be hired by CTSC IT central and will work with Bill Hanlon on developing a system to facilitate the transfer of data between institutions. The second XNAT engineer will be a liason for the Imaging Consortium and should possess and understanding of clinical science in addition to programming skills.
+There is need to hire two skilled computer scientists to work collaboratively on image data bioinformatics. Our proposal is that one will be hired by CTSC IT central and supervised by Shawn Murphy and Zak Kohane and their team and will work with the Imaging Consortium on deploying an XNAT data management system at each i2b2 Hive. The second XNAT engineer will work collaboratively with the first so that the XNAT software can be customized to support each individual clinical translational scientist using it. The two XNAT engineers will work collabortativly with Bill Hanlon and his team to build a system to facilitate the transfer of clinical imaging data from each institution into their respective XNAT instance and will work to facilitate the transfer of data between XNAT instances across institutions.
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 '''Action Items (details below)'''
-#  Update from the CTSC retreat: Consultation Service Website
+#  A draft of the consultation service web-page will be posted on the CTSC wiki for review during next week's teleconference
-#  Job positions to be created and filled: triage consultant, imaging navigator, IT expert
+#  Create a draft of job descriptions
-#  Sharing imaging data among sites
+#  A discussion of the IT services needed by the Imaging Consortium
 == Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes September 9, 2008 ==
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 In Attendance (in person):
 * Gordon Williams
 * Laura Alice
 * Steven Voss
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 * Zeke Bernstein-Hanley
 * Bruce Rosen
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-'''1. Consultation Service web page'''<br>
+'''1. Consultation Service'''<br>
-[http://catalyst.harvard.edu/services/geneticsconsultation.html Genetics] and [http://catalyst.harvard.edu/services/biostatisticsconsultation.html Biostatistics] have already created a web-page on the Harvard Catalyst website outlining their consultation services. The web pages include:
+The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to use the [http://catalyst.harvard.edu/services/geneticsconsultation.html Genetics] and [http://catalyst.harvard.edu/services/biostatisticsconsultation.html Biostatistics] consultation service web-pages on the Harvard Catalyst website as a model. The consulting web page will include:
 *key contacts within the consultation service
 *the consultation services that are and are not provided
 *an explanation of who is eligible to utilize these services
-*a form for requesting consulting services that should be downloaded and sent to the triage consultant
+*a form for requesting consulting services
-The Imaging group's consultation web-page will be posted on the Harvard Catalyst website soon. It will include all the features listed above. Randy Gollub volunteered to serve as the triage consultant until an official consultant can be hired. There was universal agreement among the Imaging Consortium that requests for consultation services should be submitted online via an RSS feed. This idea will be proposed to Genetics and Biostatistics and discussed with the IT experts, Douglas MacFadden and Seanne Hanke. A system of tracking consultation requests should be developed, and requests should be answered within a reasonable time frame.
+The Imaging group's consultation web-page will be posted on the Harvard Catalyst website on October 15th. There was universal agreement among the Imaging Consortium that requests for consultation services should be submitted online via a web-based form and should be linked to an RSS feed to notify Imaging Consortium members of new consultation requests. The web-based system will allow for tracking of requests and the time required to respond to those requests as well as allow for the collection of outcometrics. This idea of a web-based submission of requests will be proposed to Genetics and Biostatistics and discussed with the the CTSC IT team, including Douglas MacFadden.The Consortium will serve as consultants and will use the weekly teleconference to discuss consultation requests and train a new consultation triage person. Randy Gollub volunteered to serve as the triage consultant until the Imaging Consortium can hire a triage person.
-'''2. Job positions to be created and filled'''<br>
+'''2.    Image Data Management and Medical Imaging Informatics''' <br/>
-*Imaging Navigator/Triage Consultant:
+Sharing imaging data between sites is difficult due to HIPAA regulations and security. For each study that requires sharing data between institutions, a policy must be developed to regulate it.
-Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in neuroimaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiasonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
+The consortium does not plan on developing a central archive of imaging data. Based on the systems in use by Bill Hanlon, Gordon Harris, and the Dana Farber Cancer Center's Tumormetrics Core, it seems possible to develop a system to work with each hospital's IT groups to facilitate the transfer of data.
-'''3.	Image Data Management and Shared Imaging Data''' <br/>
+'''3. Job positions to be created and filled'''<br>
-Sharing imaging data between sites is difficult due to HIPAA regulations. For each study that requires sharing data between institutions, a policy must be developed to regulate it.
+*Imaging Information and Analysis Liason/Imaging Navigator/Triage Consultant:
-It is unlikely that a central archive of imaging data can be developed. However, IT will likely be able to develop a system that works with each hospital's individual firewall so that imaging data can be shared between sites. An IT person will likely have to be hired to accomplish this goal.
+Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in neuroimaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiasonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
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 '''2. Job positions to be created and filled'''<br>
-# Imaging Navigator:
+*Imaging Navigator/Triage Consultant:
-Potential job responsibilities include: updating content, work with the Research Navigators, and serve as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Discussion of the [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiasonJobDescription|qualities wanted in a candidate]] as well as the time commitment necessary for the position will be discussed at the next meeting.
+Potential job responsibilities include managing the consultation service, working with the IT team, teaching investigators to use XNAT resources, educating investigators, providing tutorials and training for image analysis, working with the CTSC Research Navigators, and serving as the imaging consortium's go-to person. Candidates should possess a PhD with expertise in neuroimaging research. The qualities desired in a candidate may be adapted from [[CTSC:ImageInformationAndAnalysisLiasonJobDescription|the CTSC Research Navigator job description]].
-*Presentation of XNAT proposal and integration into CTSC informatics.
+*Informatics expert
-They responded favorably to the imaging consortium's ideas and suggested that the imaging consortium's consultation service website could be a model for other CTSC groups.
+Responsible for customizing XNAT.
-# Informatics expert
+*IT expert
-The Imaging Consortium is looking for a PhD level informatics expert. This candidate may be recruited from with the hospitals that participate in the Imaging Consortium. When hired, this person will provide support to the Imaging Consortium and develop a way of sharing imaging data across sites while maintaining the existing security measures .
+The Imaging Consortium is looking for a PhD level IT expert. This candidate may be recruited from with the hospitals that participate in the Imaging Consortium. When hired, this person will provide support to the Imaging Consortium and develop a way of sharing imaging data across sites while maintaining the existing security measures. The successful candidate will work with IT teams at each site to accomplish this goal.
 '''3.	Image Data Management and Shared Imaging Data''' <br/>
 Sharing imaging data between sites is difficult due to HIPAA regulations. For each study that requires sharing data between institutions, a policy must be developed to regulate it.
 It is unlikely that a central archive of imaging data can be developed. However, IT will likely be able to develop a system that works with each hospital's individual firewall so that imaging data can be shared between sites. An IT person will likely have to be hired to accomplish this goal.
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