CTSC:TTIC.082608

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Action Items (details below)

1. All sites edit their consultation service listing (link to webpage on NAMIC site)

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes August 26, 2008

In Attendance (by T-con):

• Gordon Williams
• Gordon Harris
• Annick D. Van den Abbeele
• Laura Alice, for Simon Warefield
• Bob Lenkinski
• Randy Gollub
• Jeff Yap
• Ann Schlesinger
• Zeke Bernstein-Hanley
• Carolyn Zyloney

1. Consultation Service web page
Randy has posted an outline of the available imaging services at each institution (link). Imaging Consortium members are encouraged to edit this web page so it includes a more accurate and comprehensive list of available services.

Annick has also outlined the goals of the Clinical Trials Subcommittee (available at this link) which can be used as guidance for the imaging consortium to develop our consultation service.

Randy met with Douglas MacFadden and Seanne Hanke to discuss IT support for the consultation web page. Topics discussed include: a)Creating a web based request receipt and tracking mechanism through which investigators can see the anticipated time required to complete the request and the person assigned to the request. A follow-up meeting will be held after 9/3. b)Potentially hiring a coordinator to update content, work w/the Research Navigators, and be Imaging’s in-house Navigator. Discussion of the qualities wanted in the Imaging Navigator as well as the time commitment necessary for the position will be discussed at the next meeting. Refer to the Research Navigator job description( link?). c) XNAT – XML, infront of data, Shawn Murphy co-developer; hiring an XNAT engineer who will be directed by informatics; also hiring another person (possibly less IT-ish) to work to customize, install, and help investigators (Imaging Research Nav?). They responded favorably to Randy's ideas and suggested that the imaging consortium's consultation service website could be a model for other CTSC groups.

2. Consultation Service

3. Education Program

4. Image Data Management and Shared Imaging Data

5. Curation of Site resources