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

1. 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.

2. Scope of expertise

First all the participants 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

Diane is the Director of Research Computing at Partners HealthCare. She is usually not involved in individual projects but will provide support to this group.

• Danny Shaw

Danny is the Director of Knowledge Management at Children's Hospital. The clinical research IT team reports to him. He hopes that when the tools that will be created will be as self-service as possible.

• Ramin Khorasani

Ramin is