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** Several consortium members have confirmed that all three candidates have contacted them.
 
** Several consortium members have confirmed that all three candidates have contacted them.
 
** Interviews will continue through the next few weeks.
 
** Interviews will continue through the next few weeks.
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* Most materials from the applicants is already posted on the Xythos file sharing website. Additional materials, such as notes from meetings with the candidate's references will be posted shortly.
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* After interviewing the job applicants, all interviewers are requested to make comments on the "Form Sheet For Evaluation" located in each applicant's directory, and post an updated version of this document on the Xythos site.
  
 
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** The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our plan to connect the XNAT instances at each of the institutions within the Harvard CTSC.
 
** The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our plan to connect the XNAT instances at each of the institutions within the Harvard CTSC.
 
** After this first step of connecting the Harvard institutions is complete, the Harvard CTSC Imaging Group will work to ensure that our system is interoperable with the national goals and systems.
 
** After this first step of connecting the Harvard institutions is complete, the Harvard CTSC Imaging Group will work to ensure that our system is interoperable with the national goals and systems.
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* Randy met with Shawn Murphy from Partners IT.
 
  
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* Establishing a connection between all sites within the Harvard CTSC is anticipated to be a large and difficult project.
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** Several hard lines already exist between BIDMC and Partners as well as Children's Hospital and Partners. The Consortium  plans on finding out more about the locations and technical details of these hard lines and if they can support the transfer of Imaging data.
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* The Imaging Consortium agreed to try to connect with the heads of IT and Informatics at each site.
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** Randy met with Shawn Murphy from Partners IT. Shawn Murphy has been making good progress in presenting the Imaging group's goals to the head of IT at Partners.
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** Randy will meet with Simon and Stephan to learn more about the IT department and Children's Hospital and the progress that the Consortium members from Children's Hospital have made in sharing the Informatics proposal.
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* The Imaging Consortium agreed to set up a follow up meeting with the CTSC Informatics Group to discuss the progress that has been made since last meeting with that working group.
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* Randy suggested that the Consortium members consider preparing a manuscript on the issues of data sharing and the protection of human subjects as they relate to neuroinformatics. Randy plans on meeting with Paula O'Rourke to discuss writing a manuscript for publication.
  
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* Randy Buckner and John Gabrieli expressed strong support for the CTSC Imaging program.
 
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** Investigators ask them many questions, which can be directed to the Imaging Consortium's consultation service now. 
 
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** Both sites have requested help in obtaining physiological monitoring equipment for research purposes that is comparable to the physiological monitoring system in use at the Martinos Center at MGH.
 
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** Representatives from the BIDMC, as well as the other sites within the Consortium, are invited to request a physiological monitoring system if desired.
 
  
 
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* Bill Hanlon will attend the November 7th meeting in Chicago
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* There are several events of interest during RSNA. The Imaging Consortium has discussed plans to attend these meetings:
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** Imaging Consortium members are requested to submit their requirements for the Informatics system to Bill
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** An informational session on the activities of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (QIBA),  will be held Monday, December 1, 2008 from 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon (McCormick Convention Center, Room S103 C&D). Dan Sullivan is the host of this meeting.  
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* Bill will speak with Karl Helmer, who works with the BIRN coordinating center
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The December 1, 2008 meeting will provide more information about QIBA’s history, process, and goals.  In addition, each of the three QIBA Technical Committees will provide updates on their projects.  This meeting is open to all RSNA Annual Meeting attendees, so feel free to share this information with other interested persons.  If you are unable to attend, please be aware that an informational exhibit on QIBA’s goals and the work of the Technical Committees will also be displayed in the Learning Center during RSNA 2008.
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* The Informatics meeting was held at Harvard's Countway Library directly following the Imaging Group meeting.
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Annick has agreed to attend this session as a representative of the Imaging Consortium.
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** The representatives from the Imaging Group together with Shawn Murphy presented the XNAT proposal to the Informatics group.
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** The PET, MRI, and CT working groups will be meeting on Thursday December 4th. These meetings provide an opportunity for pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, software groups, and clinical trials researchers to formulate guidelines.  
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** There was uniform positive response to the proposal from the Informatics group 
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Jeff Yap has agreed to attend these sessions if they are pertinent to the Imaging Consortium's goals.
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** They were supportive of adding medical imaging data to the data types that can be hadled through i2b2
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** However, the group outlined the problems that may arise due to the accessing of imaging data in PACs systems and the difficulty of working with medical imaging meta-data
 
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** The XNAT software has been able to deal with these issues effectively.
 
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* The Imaging and Informatics Groups will present the proposal to Harvard CTSC Central and the heads of informatics at each institution within this CTSC
 
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** Shawn Murphy and Diane Keogh from Partners Research Computing will make the presentation to the Head of Partners Computing
 
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** Bill from BIDMC will make a presentation to Jim Murray, the Director of Clinical ___.
 
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** The BIDMC is not set up for interfacing with the PACs systems.
 
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** Zak Kohane will share this proposal with the heads of the CTSC.
 
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** This proposal is also being forwarded to the IT committee
 
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* The proposal calls for CTSC Central to hire an engineer to integrate XNAT and i2b2.
 
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* Randy will contact Suzanne Churchill, the director of i2b2,  to obtain a list of all the CTSC sites that are using i2b2 currently
 
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* Dan Marcus is meeting with the National CTSC Imaging Working Group, which is planning on submitting a NIBIB grant for the national Informatics effort. The Harvard CTSC Imaging Group may want to consider submitting a companion grant or participating in this grant submission.
 
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* Jeff Yap raised the question of transferring information from the clinical data to the Imaging data fields, because currently a large portion of the data must be manually entered. There may be issues of regulatory compliance here and this issue may require multiple solutions.  
 
  
 
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'''6. Consultation Page Update'''<br>
 
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* Biostatistics and Genetics have made changes to their pages
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* The Imaging Consultation Web-page is live on the Harvard Catalyst website.
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* CTSC Catalyst has created a mock up of the Imaging page.
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* The Consortium agreed that the first order of business each week should be a review of the consultation requests, if any new ones arrive.
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* Final edits to the page have been suggested and the page will go live on the Catalyst website soon.
 
  
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Revision as of 20:00, 25 November 2008

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Action Items (details below)

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes November 25, 2008

In Attendance (via phone):

  • Randy Gollub
  • Carolyn Zyloney
  • Jeff Yap
  • Bill Hanlon
  • Gordon Harris
  • Gordon Williams
  • Clare Tempany
  • Annick D. Van den Abbeele
  • Laura Alice


1. Educational Program

  • The Imaging Consortium will set dates and times for the upcoming educational seminars at an upcoming meeting.
    • In order to secure a room at BWH and MGH, these educational meetings must be booked well in advance.
    • The Slicer presentation held in Fall 2008 had a limited capacity of 20-40 seats, and these seats filled quickly. It is hoped that there will be equally strong demand for the upcoming educational seminars



2. Imaging Information and Acquisition Liaison Job Position

  • The job description has been circulated through several outlets:
    • MGH has been asked to post the position on the Partners careers site
    • An email with the job description was sent to the Martinos Center community via email.
    • An ad for the position was posted on the RSNA web site starting in mid-November. It will be posted there for a month.
    • The ad has also been posted on numerous career websites.
    • The ad will be featured in the December issue of Radiology (an RSNA publication).
    • A short description of the position will be posted on a monitor at the Career Connection booth at the RSNA Conference in December.
  • Three promising candidates have been invited in for interviews with several members of the consortium.
    • The candidates have been instructed to contact the interviewers and set up appointments.
    • Several consortium members have confirmed that all three candidates have contacted them.
    • Interviews will continue through the next few weeks.
  • Most materials from the applicants is already posted on the Xythos file sharing website. Additional materials, such as notes from meetings with the candidate's references will be posted shortly.
  • After interviewing the job applicants, all interviewers are requested to make comments on the "Form Sheet For Evaluation" located in each applicant's directory, and post an updated version of this document on the Xythos site.


3. Neuroinformatics

  • While the goals of the National CTSC Imaging Informatics working group are complementary to the goals of the Harvard CTSC Imaging Group, the national group has a different set of strategic goals than the Consortium.
    • The time line over which the national goals will be carried out is unclear.
    • The Imaging Consortium unanimously agreed to continue with our plan to connect the XNAT instances at each of the institutions within the Harvard CTSC.
    • After this first step of connecting the Harvard institutions is complete, the Harvard CTSC Imaging Group will work to ensure that our system is interoperable with the national goals and systems.
  • Establishing a connection between all sites within the Harvard CTSC is anticipated to be a large and difficult project.
    • Several hard lines already exist between BIDMC and Partners as well as Children's Hospital and Partners. The Consortium plans on finding out more about the locations and technical details of these hard lines and if they can support the transfer of Imaging data.
  • The Imaging Consortium agreed to try to connect with the heads of IT and Informatics at each site.
    • Randy met with Shawn Murphy from Partners IT. Shawn Murphy has been making good progress in presenting the Imaging group's goals to the head of IT at Partners.
    • Randy will meet with Simon and Stephan to learn more about the IT department and Children's Hospital and the progress that the Consortium members from Children's Hospital have made in sharing the Informatics proposal.
  • The Imaging Consortium agreed to set up a follow up meeting with the CTSC Informatics Group to discuss the progress that has been made since last meeting with that working group.
  • Randy suggested that the Consortium members consider preparing a manuscript on the issues of data sharing and the protection of human subjects as they relate to neuroinformatics. Randy plans on meeting with Paula O'Rourke to discuss writing a manuscript for publication.


4. Pilot Grant update

  • The CTSC has decided not to hold a second round for Pilot Grant submissions this year due to the large volume of applications during the first round.
  • A number of grant applications were developmental not clinical
  • Notifications of which projects have been chosen to receive funding will be sent out soon.
  • It is not clear if the consultation service will play a role in supporting the pilot grants, but the Consortium is awaiting advise and instruction from CTSC central on this issue.


5. RSNA

  • There are several events of interest during RSNA. The Imaging Consortium has discussed plans to attend these meetings:
    • An informational session on the activities of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (QIBA), will be held Monday, December 1, 2008 from 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon (McCormick Convention Center, Room S103 C&D). Dan Sullivan is the host of this meeting.

The December 1, 2008 meeting will provide more information about QIBA’s history, process, and goals. In addition, each of the three QIBA Technical Committees will provide updates on their projects. This meeting is open to all RSNA Annual Meeting attendees, so feel free to share this information with other interested persons. If you are unable to attend, please be aware that an informational exhibit on QIBA’s goals and the work of the Technical Committees will also be displayed in the Learning Center during RSNA 2008. Annick has agreed to attend this session as a representative of the Imaging Consortium.

    • The PET, MRI, and CT working groups will be meeting on Thursday December 4th. These meetings provide an opportunity for pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, software groups, and clinical trials researchers to formulate guidelines.

Jeff Yap has agreed to attend these sessions if they are pertinent to the Imaging Consortium's goals.



6. Consultation Page Update

  • The Imaging Consultation Web-page is live on the Harvard Catalyst website.
  • The Consortium agreed that the first order of business each week should be a review of the consultation requests, if any new ones arrive.


. Physiological Monitoring

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