CTSC:TTIC.060209

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Agenda

1. Imaging consultation.
2. Marketing of consultation service
3. Pilot grants
4. Imaging informatics update

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes June 2, 2009

In attendance:

• Randy Gollub
• Valerie Humblet
• Clare Tempany
• Simon Warfield
• Bruce Rosen
• Gordon Harris
• Gordon Williams
• Jeff Yap
• Charles Guttmann
• Bill Hanlon
• Yong Gao

1. Update on imaging consultation requests

• This week there was no new consultation request submitted through the Catalyst website.

2. Marketing of consultation service

• Valerie contacted Tom Ulrich to work on an a comprehensive plan for communicating about the consulting service. There will be a meeting on Thursday June 4, involving the other programs that offer a consultation service (genetics, biostat and Provider & Health Systems ).
• Tom Ulrich has been developing a series of similar brochures for the Harvard Catalyst consulting service. Valerie sent a proposal of the imaging one to the group for their review.
  • Everybody agreed that instead of listing just the program directors (both from MGH), all the participating institutions should be listed.
  • Gordon Williams will meet with the genetics group on Wednesday June 3 and asked for their suggestions in order to keep the brochures very similar. In the mean time, Valerie will contact Tom Ulrich to give him the imaging consortium's feedback.
• Now that a talk about the services offered by the imaging consortium has been given at each Radiology Staff meeting, we must target divisions and other departments meetings. Having the flyer as well as some business cards to distribute after those talks would be a plus. Each hospital representative is tasked to get a list of 3 or 4 meetings at their institution where the consortium could give a 10-15 minutes talk this summer. Valerie will collect the data.
• Jeff suggested to contact the head of IRB at each institution to give them an overview of what we offer and see if they would be interested in using the consultation service to review new protocols with imaging components. Right now at DFCC for example there is no formal structure, any new protocol with imaging has to be approved through the radiation safety office.
• At the different institution, there is generally an intensive introduction to clinical research. It would be a very good time to target the audience (newer researchers) that would benefit from what Catalyst is offering. The members are tasked to contact the education program manager at their institution to be on the agenda of these training.

3. Pilot grants

• There are no official numbers on the applications for the second round of pilot grants.
• Reviewers are encouraged to add their participation to the process on their resume as it will be a factor taking into account during review for promotion.

4. Imaging informatics update

• The first meeting of the imaging subgroup of the imaging consortium happened on Monday June 1st. Each institution was represented. The goal of this first meeting was to define the mission of the group[.
  • The first task of the group is to compile a catalogue of all images in the various PACS systems (how much data, what is valuable for research, software tools, modality, body part, sequences, etc).
  • This catalogue will be hosted on the Harvard WIKI so it will be password protected and only accessible to people with an e-commons ID.
  • The goal is to have this catalogue ready in 6 months.
• Clare was contacted by someone from Duke University (Dan Sullivan's group) looking for collaboration on deindetification.
  • It is a good project because so far there is not a true multi-institution solution. A lot is still done manually.
  • Before choosing a tool for deindetification, , it will be important to know more about the regulations and the true capabilities of each tool.
  • The Harvard answer might be different than the national answer.