CTSC:TTIC.102709

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Agenda:

1. Consultations: Imaging-45 (suborbital flight imaging) and Imaging-46 (evaluation of myelin formation in mice)
2. Nov 16 - Drafts of Y3 budgets: personnel planning and justification due.
3. Medical Imaging Education and Training (see updated section of wiki: http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Collaboration:Harvard_CTSC)
4. Medical Imaging 101 course
5. Catalyst Education Summit (12/1)
6. ACRIN feedback ACRIN survey
7. National CTSA education resource program (http://www.rochesterctsa.org/courses/)
8. Quantitative Medical Imaging for Clinical Research and Practice RSNA 2009 meeting

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 27, 2009

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Jeff Yap
• Gordon Harris
• Ron Kikinis
• Annick Van den Abbeele
• Randy Gollub
• Simon Warfield

1. Update on imaging consultation requests

• The consortium invited Dr Erika Wagner to the t-con so she can give more details on her request for consultation (Imaging-45).
• Simon and Valerie will take care of the request submitted by Dr Rosenberg from CHB (Imaging-46)

2. Nov 16 - Drafts of Y3 budgets: personnel planning and justification due

• A draft of Y3 budget is due on Nov. 16. Randy asked all institutions to think about personnel planning.

3. Medical Imaging Education and Training

• Jeff updated the wiki page by adding a new educational section. It is subdivided in 2 sections, one with the modality-based education modules and one with the discipline-based education modules.
  • Jeff assigned the leadership of those modules to different members of the imaging consortium.
  • For each modality-based module, the goal is to have some material about clinical applications, data acquisition and data analysis
  • Modules about image processing (visualization, workflow and data management) will be mostly designed for imagers
• Resources needed to finish the design of these modules:
  • Radiologist with CT expertise
  • Radiologist or MD with neurology expertise
  • MD with fetal US expertise or brain US expertise
  • Surgeon to help with the module about imaging for surgery

4. Medical Imaging 101 course

• Valerie circulated the first draft of the slides.
  • The group agreed that the slides with material about standardization, MRI distortion and other technical issues should be removed because the audience will be mainly non-imager researchers.

5. Catalyst Education Summit (12/1)

• On December 1st, 2009, there will be a presentation of Harvard Catalyst’s clinical and translational education programs followed by four interactive breakout sessions: Introduction to Clinical Investigation Course, Advanced Curriculum & Cross-Institution Course Sharing, Masters Degree Programs & the KL2 Awards, Leader Human Biology Program. The imaging consortium is invited to participate but unfortunately, it is during RSNA 2009 in Chicago, that almost all the members are attending.

6. ACRIN feedback

• The feedback from the ACRIN meeting was positive. The results will be shared at the national level with the CTSA Imaging Working Group and also send to Doug Sheeley of NCRR.

7. National CTSA education resource program

• The University of Rochester [PI-Thomas Pearson, MD, PhD] was awarded an administrative supplement (2008) to develop the National CTSA Educational Resource Program (NCERP). The pilot project has been completed and the final product is posted on the CTSAWeb.org website (temporarily). The website (http://www.rochesterctsa.org/courses), lists 82 courses (collected from CTSA sites and the NIH). The website operates like a “dating service”; someone searches for courses and is directed to contact information to pursue the course. No course materials (other than the occasional syllabus) are available on the site.
• There are no imaging courses listed now, but we could add some. It is a good place to advertise our educational material.

8. Quantitative Medical Imaging for Clinical Research and Practice RSNA 2009 meeting

• The PET/CT viewer is working fine and will be part of the hands-on workshop.
• The DCE-MRI will be excluded from the hands-on workshop but will be featured as a live demo.
• Sonia Pujol will be the leader of the hands-on workshop, Wendy, , Valerie and Randy will be in the audience to help.
• The new modules created in Slicer will become a permanent part of it in the next stable release. Wendy is working on a tutorial.