CTSC:ARRA.100609

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Agenda:

1. Introduction of different participants
2. Brief scope of expertise
3. Scope of work

Harvard Catalyst Medical Informatics group Meeting Minutes October 6, 2009

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Mark Anderson
• Randy Gollub
• Yong Gao
• Bill Hanlon
• Ron Kikinis
• Todd Perlstein
• Wendy Plesniak
• Shawn Murphy
• Diane Keogh
• Mike Mendez
• Steve Piper
• Richard Robertson
• Stefan Voss
• Danny Shaw
• Ramin Korhasani
• Kathy Andriole
• Michael Clyne
• Jesse Wei
• Alexander Zaitsev

Introduction

• Randy welcomed all the participants and gave a very brief introduction about the ARRA supplement. The Administrative Supplement award was received on September 30, the

official dates of the project are 9/24/09- 9/23/11.

• Randy will be in charge of all the administrative tasks. The first thing that she did when the funding of the supplement was announced was to offer a full time job to a Computational Engineer that has a lot of experience in imaging data repository. He will join the team in a couple of months.

Scope of expertise

First all the participants at the meeting introduced themselves, gave a brief update on their background and talked about what they hope to achieve within this project.

• Randy Gollub.
  

Randy is from MGH (neuroimaging), she is the co-director of the Catalyst Imaging Consortium and the co-Investigator on this ARRA supplement. Clinical data are a tremendous resources and should be easily accessible for secondary use for research. Randy is aware that the regulations, the issue of patient privacy will require a lot of effort.

• Diane Keogh