IGT:March 2008 IGT Workshop

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Dates. Avenue. Registration

Dates: March 10-11, 2008

Avenue: The Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Phone number: +1 (301) 468-1100. Room rates for the meeting are US $TBD/night (+ applicable taxes) for reservations made prior to TBD using the group code TBD. After that date, rates revert to the regular ($TBD+/nt) and we are unable to get the hotel to release additional rooms at the lower rate.

Subway Information to Hotel

Subway Map

• Directions from Washington Reagan International Airport (DCA) to the Doubletree Hotel:
  • Take the Yellow Line to Gallery Place
    
  • At Gallery Place, switch to the Red Line (going toward Shady Grove)
    
  • Get off at Twinbrook; the Doubletree is across the street
    

Registration: Registration Fee and Method to be announced.

Goal

The goal of this workshop is to bring together clinical researchers in Image-Guided Therapy (IGT) systems for a 2-day workshop to share their recent advances and to identify synergies in future strategy. The intent of the workshop is to foster community-based development, to share best practices in the clinical deployment of such systems, to identify gaps in the existing infrastructure available to IGT research clinicians, and ultimately to facilitate the transfer of knowledge among NIH-sponsored research centers.

The workshop will concentrate on the clinical aspects of IGT systems, as the technological aspects have been covered in a similar workshop in 2006. The agenda will include (a) keynote talks that will review clinical aspects of IGT, (b) talks by NCIGT leadership to summarize the progress made by the center since its inception, as well as (c)talks by principal investigators of several recently IGI grants funded recently by the NIH. Breakout sessions will follow in which the participants will receive hands-on tutorials on clinical IGT applications developed by NCIGT.

Background on this workshop: The initial idea of this workshop was developed in ad-hoc meetings with collaborators across institutions including Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, UNC, NIH, GE Global Research, Kitware Inc., and Brigham and Women's Hospital. The Program Committee welcomed and encouraged suggestions from the IGT community on the content of this workshop until mid July, 2006, when the program was finalized.

Program Committee

• Ferenc Jolesz, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the Workshop Chair. The program committee includes:
• Clare Tempany, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Tina Kapur, Ph.D, Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D., NIH
• John Haller, Ph.D., NIH
• Abraham Levy, Ph.D, NIH

Agenda

Monday, March 10, 2008

• Morning: Travel
• Sessions: 1-5pm

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

• 8:00am: Continental Breakfast
• 8:15-10:00am: Sessions
• 10: coffee break
• 10:30-noon: sessions
• noon-1pm: lunch
• 1-3pm: sessions
• 3pm: adjourn

Contact

For further information about the program please contact: TBD

If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the workshop, please contact: Marianna Jakab (marianna at bwh.harvard.edu)