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Agenda

1. Consultations update
2. Networking session October 27th (4-6 pm in Benjamin Waterhouse Room in Gordon Hall at HMS)
3. RSNA practice talk (Thursday November 18, 12-2 pm, Armenise Bldg., amphitheater D)
4. Residency in Radiation Oncology
5. Feedback on previously submit proposal for pilot scan money
6. Multicenter trials

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 12, 2010

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Randy Gollub
• Bob Lenkinski
• Wendy Plesniak
• Annick Van den Abbeele
• Simon Warfield
• Gordon Harris
• Jeff Yap
• Gordon Williams
• Clare Tempany

1. Consultations update

• A couple of new consultations requests this week, all are assigned to the consultant with the best expertise.

2. Networking session October 27th (4-6 pm in Benjamin Waterhouse Room in Gordon Hall at HMS)

• An invitation for the networking session has been sent to the people who registered for our different education sessions. The research navigators will also advertise it through the Harvard Catalyst website.
• Bob and Charles will give a 20 minutes talk. Jeff will be there also for the networking session.

3. RSNA practice talk (Thursday November 18, 12-2 pm, Armenise Bldg., amphitheater D)

• Jeff, Simon and Bob will give a talk about: the lifecycle of an imaging biomarker" on 11/18 at HMS. It will be a practice talk for the RSNA session.
• Valerie will ask Tom Ulrich to work on the advertisement of the event.

4. Residency in Radiation Oncology

• Jeff mentioned that he sat at a meeting to discuss the new requirements for the medical physicists, they will soon need a new certification. The radiation oncology is planning to start a residency program, they are doing a lot of imaging and they need people to teach the residents. Jeff pointed them to the different educational offers from Harvard Catalyst.

5. Feedback on previously submit proposal for pilot scan money

• Randy talked to Bruce and he had no more information on why our proposal was rejected.
• Gordon W. explained that it is just a money issue. If we want to be able to offer pilot scan, we have to find money in on our funds as follow what the ACL lab did for bio assays.
• Annick will get in touch with Brian Reynolds and Dan Sullivan at Duke to learn more about the process at the other CTSA.

6. Multicenter trials

• A couple of suggestions for additional funding for the multicenter trials project:
  • Education grant for the development of a new curriculum (RSNA has some, NIH has some on the informatics side)
  • application for a supplement through NIBIB (calibration part) or NCI (if there is an oncology part)
  • ACRIN