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CarolynZyloney: /* Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008 */

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Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008

CarolynZyloney: /* Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008 */

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Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008

Whanlon07: /* Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008 */

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Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008

Whanlon07: /* Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008 */

2008-10-23T13:47:59Z

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008

CarolynZyloney at 23:22, 22 October 2008

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CarolynZyloney at 23:21, 22 October 2008

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RandyGollub at 15:18, 22 October 2008

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CarolynZyloney at 21:02, 21 October 2008

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CarolynZyloney at 20:57, 21 October 2008

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CarolynZyloney at 20:19, 21 October 2008

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 # Look over the CTSC PowerPoint slides that will be sent out prior to the October 28th meeting. Consortium members who cannot attend this meeting are encouraged to make suggestions on how to improve the presentation in advance of that meeting.
-== Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008 ==
+== Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 21, 2008 ==
 In Attendance (via phone):

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-'''3. Imaging Navigator Job'''<br>
+'''3. Imaging Information and Acquisition Liaison Job'''<br>
-* Randy has begun to receive resumes from prospective Imaging Navigators
+* Randy has begun to receive resumes from prospective Imaging Information and Acquisition Liaison
-* Carolyn has contacted the HR departments at Harvard and MGH to post the Imaging Navigator job.
+* Carolyn has contacted the HR departments at Harvard and MGH to post the Imaging Information and Acquisition Liaison job.
 * Consortium members and personnel within the Radiology Departments at each institution may be able to suggest suitable job candidates.
 * Carolyn has also submitted the job description to RSNA. It will be posted on the RSNA website and featured in the December issue of Radiology.

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 * Dan Sullivan led the t-con. Ron Kikinis, Bill Hanlon, and Randy Gollub were present and represented the Harvard CTSC.
-*Bill Hanlon from the TIMC has been invited to the November 7th [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal National CTSA Image Informatics] meeting in Chicago and and will represent the Harvard CTSC at this meeting.
+*Bill Hanlon from the TIMC has been invited to the November 7th [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal National CTSA Image Informatics] meeting in Chicagoland and will represent the Harvard CTSC at this meeting.
 * The goal of the meeting is to work out the details of the grant proposal to support medical image informatics.

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 * Dan Sullivan led the t-con. Ron Kikinis, Bill Hanlon, and Randy Gollub were present and represented the Harvard CTSC.
-*Bill Hanlon from the TIMC has been invited to the November 7th [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal National CTSA Image Informatics] meeting in Chicagoland and will represent the Harvard CTSC at this meeting.
+*Bill Hanlon from the TIMC has been invited to the November 7th [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal National CTSA Image Informatics] meeting in Chicago and and will represent the Harvard CTSC at this meeting.
 * The goal of the meeting is to work out the details of the grant proposal to support medical image informatics.
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 * One topic of discussion at the CTSA t-con was the idea of setting up standardized measurements and standardizing the cost of image acquisition and analysis. This has spurred interest in how the TIMC does business.
-** Currently the TIMC (tumor imaging metrics core) offers its data analysis services to investigators within the DFHCC.
+** Currently the TIMC (Tumor Imaging Metrics Core) offers its data analysis services to trials within the DF/HCC.
-** The November 7th meeting in Chicago is one potential opportunity for Bill Hanlon to share information about the TIMC with other CTSCs.
+** The November 7th meeting in Chicago is one potential opportunity for Bill to share information about the TIMC with other CTSCs.
-** Before we proceed with sharing the strategies employed by the TIMC with the world, the DFHCC will decide what information they wish to make publicly available.
+** Before we proceed with sharing the strategies employed by the TIMC with the world, the TIMC PIs will decide what information they wish to make publicly available.
 * Bill Hanlon has been invited to present information about the TIMC at the RSNA meeting.

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 ** The November 7th meeting in Chicago is one potential opportunity for Bill Hanlon to share information about the TIMC with other CTSCs.
 ** Before we proceed with sharing the strategies employed by the TIMC with the world, the DFHCC will decide what information they wish to make publicly available.
 * Bill Hanlon has been invited to present information about the TIMC at the RSNA meeting.
 * [http://www.aaci-cancer.org/irats/about_project.asp IRAT], the Imaging Response Assessment Team, has the goal of providing funding to encourage clinical collaboration between imaging scientists and oncologic investigators at Cancer Centers to identify new oncologic imaging research opportunities in clinical trials that warrant multi-center clinical investigations and integrate imaging data as potential biomarkers or candidate surrogate markers in clinical therapeutic trials. IRAT is entering its third year of funding, but is currently looking for other sources of funding to support its work.
 * Few other CTSCs have as well establish and broadly knowledgeable senior leadership as the Harvard CTSC. This puts the Harvard CTSC in a leadership position.
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 '''Action Items (details below)'''
+# Look over the CTSC PowerPoint slides that will be sent out prior to the October 28th meeting. Consortium members who cannot attend this meeting are encouraged to make suggestions on how to improve the presentation in advance of that meeting.
 == Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008 ==
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 * Dan Sullivan led the t-con. Ron Kikinis, Bill Hanlon, and Randy Gollub were present and represented the Harvard CTSC.
-* Currently the TIMC (tumor imaging metrics core) offers its data analysis services to investigators within the DFHCC.
+*Bill Hanlon from the TIMC has been invited to the November 7th [http://wiki.ctsa-imaging.org/index.php?title=Image_Sharing_Infrastructure_Proposal National CTSA Image Informatics] meeting in Chicagoland and will represent the Harvard CTSC at this meeting.
-** There is interest from other CTSCs at non-Harvard sites in the tumor core and how it runs its business.
 ** Before we proceed with sharing the strategies employed by the TIMC with the world, the DFHCC will decide what information they wish to make publicly available.
 * Bill Hanlon has been invited to present information about the TIMC at the RSNA meeting.
-* Few other CTSCs have as big an imaging presence as the Harvard CTSC because our Imaging group has superior funding and is well organized. This puts the Harvard CTSC in a leadership position.
+* [http://www.aaci-cancer.org/irats/about_project.asp IRAT], the Imaging Response Assessment Team, has the goal of providing funding to encourage clinical collaboration between imaging scientists and oncologic investigators at Cancer Centers to identify new oncologic imaging research opportunities in clinical trials that warrant multi-center clinical investigations and integrate imaging data as potential biomarkers or candidate surrogate markers in clinical therapeutic trials. IRAT is entering its third year of funding, but is currently looking for other sources of funding to support its work.
-* Bill Hanlon has been invited to the November 7th meeting in Chicagoland.
+* Few other CTSCs have as well establish and broadly knowledgeable senior leadership as the Harvard CTSC. This puts the Harvard CTSC in a leadership position.
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 '''2. Communication with Imaging Community'''<br>
-* The Imaging Consortium has obtained the slides from the CTSC retreat. Gordon Williams will obtain the CTSC central prepared PowerPoint presentation.
+* The Imaging Consortium has obtained the slides from the CTSC retreat.
-* The Imaging Consortium will work together at the next meeting to prepare additional slides about the Imaging Consortium and its consultation service.
+* The Imaging Consortium will work together at the next meeting (October 28th at Harvard Medical School Countway Library) to prepare additional slides about the Imaging Consortium and its consultation service.
 * Consortium members will use this PowerPoint to present the CTSC Imaging Consultation Services at the Radiology Division Heads Meetings within each institution.
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-'''6. Consultation Web-page Update'''<br>
+'''5. Consultation Web-page Update'''<br>
 * The Imaging Consultation Service page is due to go live on the Catalyst website on November 18th.
 * We are waiting for CTSC Central to approve rotating through several images at the top of the web-page. If it is approved, consortium members will be asked to suggest several additional pictures to display on the website.
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-'''4. Budget update'''<br>
+'''4. 2009 meeting schedule'''<br>
-* The CTSC Imaging budget is large enough to fund several additional projects, which will be discussed at the next meeting.
+* Randy proposed that the Imaging Consortium continue with the current meeting plan into 2009. This includes continuing our 8:30 - 9:30 am weekly teleconferences and our monthly site visits at Harvard CTSC Central or one of the participating institutions.
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	* One topic of discussion at the CTSA t-con was the idea of setting up standardized measurements and standardizing the cost of image acquisition and analysis.		* One topic of discussion at the CTSA t-con was the idea of setting up standardized measurements and standardizing the cost of image acquisition and analysis.
−	** [http://www.aaci-cancer.org/irats/about_project.asp IRAT], the Imaging Response Assessment ~~team~~	+
		+	* [http://www.aaci-cancer.org/irats/about_project.asp IRAT], the Imaging Response Assessment Team, has the goal of providing funding to encourage clinical collaboration between imaging scientists and oncologic investigators at Cancer Centers to identify new oncologic imaging research opportunities in clinical trials that warrant multi-center clinical investigations and integrate imaging data as potential biomarkers or candidate surrogate markers in clinical therapeutic trials. IRAT is entering its third year of funding, but will no longer receive its funding from the National Cancer Institute, and may look to the CTSCs as a source of funding.
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		+	* Few other CTSCs have as big an imaging presence as the Harvard CTSC because our Imaging group has superior funding and is well organized. This puts the Harvard CTSC in a leadership position.
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		+	* Bill Hanlon has been invited to the November 7th meeting in Chicagoland.
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