CTSC:TTIC.020309

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Action Items (details below)

1. Discussion about potential candidates for the XNAT engineer position.
2. The consortium must decide who will attend the joint IRAT/CTSA meeting in Baltimore (March 29-31).
3. Review of the educational event planning process .

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes February 3, 2009

In attendance:

• Randy Gollub
• Valerie Humblet
• Bill Hanlon
• Simon Warfield
• Annick D. Van den Abbeele
• Laura Alice
• Ron Kikinis
• Jeff Yapp
• Bruce Rosen

1. IRAT/CTSA Joint Workshop March 29-31,2009 in Baltimore

• The schedule for the IRAT session is finalized but the CTSA sessions are still open. If the consortium wants to add presentations, Dan Sullivan should be contacted. Randy and Valerie will contact him to coordinate the presentations.
  • Randy invited Karl Helmer to attend, he agreed to go and give a talk about multisite MRI acquisition if needed.
  • Shawn Murphy was also invited by the group, he accepted and will give a talk about XNAT-PACS-i2b2 integration on Sunday. Bill and Randy will fill in for the rest of the IT sessions. They will attend Monday and Tuesday.
  • Gordon Harris is available Sunday to Tuesday if his presence is needed at the meeting.
• The CTSA Imaging Working Group sessions on Tuesday are important, at least one member should attend.

2. Slides for CTSC imaging consortium presentation

• Valerie sent two sets of slides for the members to review. One is for the Department Heads meetings and is called: Development of Harvard Catalyst Imaging Consultation Service. The second one is for the smaller meetings and is called Harvard Catalyst Imaging Consultation Service. Both used the new template given by Tom Ulrich, Communication Manager for the Catalyst.
  • Members are invited to look at the slides and send Valerie their feedback.
  • Bruce noted that it is appropriate to keep expectations in line with our budgetary constraints. We greatly value feedback about for the researchers (education, consultation service,...). So the budget can be appropriate with the highest impact for the Catalyst affiliates.
• Consortium members are asked to gather information on the dates of the Radiology Department meetings.
  • Simon gives a talk at a Faculty meeting at Children's hospital at the end of February and will be the first one to present the slides.
  • The Division Heads meeting at MGH is scheduled for April 9th.
  • Valerie will follow-up with Bob, Clare and Annick about the other sites meetings
• Meetings should be schedule at Harvard and MIT and maybe at other hospitals doing imaging (eg: Mc Lean). Randy will contact the appropriate persons.
• A couple of interesting smaller meetings were listed: SPORE (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence), Catalyst meetings with the site representatives, panel discussions at Dana-Farber. Bill Crowley at the MGH-CRC is also someone to contact.

3. XNAT engineer position

• Two more applications were received and posted on the xythos web site.
• One candidate has a very strong background and very good references. After a first successful interview on the phone with Bill, the consortium invited him for a round of interviews in Boston.
• The group agreed that hiring a consultant who has the right expertise with cross hospital file transfer for 3 to 6 months to get the project started could be a good idea.

4. Educational program

Catalyst Central asked the consortium to provide them with a calendar for the educational program asap.

• The consortium was asked to give an Imaging 101 seminar.
  • Jeff has a talk ready: Imaging Science: Concept and Definitions. He will post it along with a paper on imaging science using the Partners Research Computing Secure File Transfer Service.
• Annick mentioned a new book edited by Gordon Williams: Clinical and Translational Science: Principles of Human Research.
  • This book can be a good source for educational material.
  • Contributors to this book are invited to the 2009 National Clinical & Translational Research Education Meeting Washington, DC April 14-15. This might be another opportunity to broadcast the Harvard CTSA and the imaging consortium. Annick will not be able to attend this meeting in Washington, DC, but others might be interested.
• A mini-series on tumor metric should be proposed. Valerie and Jeff will work on the coordination of the program.
• Valerie is working with the Catalyst Central team on the educational event planning process, the creation of a calendar, on-line evaluation forms, ...