CTSC:TTIC.042109

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Agenda

1. Education program
2. Educational program to be offered by the national CTSC Imaging Working Group at RSNA
3. Discussion of imaging consultations
4. Proposal for funding of imaging projects
5. Budget for Y02
6. Future presentation of our program to the COC

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes April 21, 2009

In attendance:

• Gordon Williams
• Randy Gollub
• Valerie Humblet
• Yong Gao
• Clare Tempany
• Ron Kikinis
• Stephan Voss
• Gordon Harris
• Jeff Yapp
• Annick Van den Abbeelle

1. Educational program

• Jeff gave an overview of the educational program he developed according to all the previous discussions on the topic and the feedback we got during the CTSA workshop meeting in Batimore (March 29-31).
  • Jeff sent a copy of his "proposal for education program" to the group, it is open for discussion.
• Here a a list of other topics that could be included in the proposal:
  

- Post processing, 3D visualization tools
- Training specific for radiologist residents: 3D visualization tools, acquisition parameters, use of imaging in clinical trials
- Specificity of pediatric protocols. Importance to educate the community about the difference between kids and adult. People reviewing pediatric protocols would probably be a very good target audience
- Cross-institution training on MRI safety. Valerie will create a working group with the technologists in charge of the MRI safety training at the different sites, the goal is to come with a uniform training for pre-use certification.

2. Educational program to be offered by the national CTSC Imaging Working Group at RSNA

• Randy submitted a proposal to the RSNA for an educational program to be offered by the national CTSC Imaging Working Group at the RSNA meeting in Chicago (11/29-12/04).
  • The title is: Quantitative medical imaging for clinical research and practice.
  • The course organizers are: Randy, Jeff, Valerie, Brian Reynolds (Duke), Katarzyna J. Macura (Johns Hopkins) and Dan Sullivan (Duke)

3. Update on imaging consultation requests

• Valerie gave an update on the ongoing consultation requests. All the investigators have been contacted by at least one imaging expert and the collaborative work is in process.
• Valerie will make a couple of slides about the different types of consultation the group received so far. It will be useful when one gives a presentation about the imaging consortium.

6. Future presentation of our program to the COC

• The meeting was supposed to be on April 28, it is rescheduled to the end of May or end of June.