CTSC.TTIC.minutes.070808

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Action Items (details below)

1. Site representatives need to update their resources, can do so on wiki or send info to Ann
2. Begin collecting educational resources already available to catalog on wiki
3. Annick and Clare to bring back to group draft consulting plan

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes July 8, 2008

In Attendance (in person at the Martinos Imaging Center, Charlestown):

• Stephen Voss, Children's
• Simon Warfield, Children's
• Ron Kikinis, BWH
• Clare Tempany, BWH
• Bill Hanlon, MGH
• Gordon Harris, MGH
• Annick Van den Abbeele, DFCI
• Robert Lenkinski, BIDMC
• Randy Gollub, MGH
• Bruce Rosen, MGH
• Ann Schlesinger, CTSC Navigator

Meeting began with a tour of Martinos imaging facilities and GCRC supported Biomedical Imaging Core unit. Note that this is just a subset of MGH based imaging resources. The wiki pages are being updated to include this more comprehensive catalog.

Then we began to gather ideas from group for vision of what we could/should do

• Unanimous agreement that this Consortium envisions itself as an expert consulting body to the CTSC and the affiliated academic medical centers in the domain of medical imaging. Consensus agreement that this group is willing to systematically explore, discuss and then come to agreement on policies for medical imaging related issues that are causing obstacles for clinical translational investigators.
  

Specific examples include:

1. Screening forms/policies for MRI scanning
2. MRI safety training procedures for staff
3. Recommendations for screening prior to injection of gadolinium contrast

• Consensus that it will take some time to come to a clear view of what domains of infrastructure/expertise/etc should be disseminated across our sites and what should be centralized at some or one site. Agreed that there will not be a "one size fits all" solution. Randy and Bruce to gather more information on the level of resources available to the Consortium to guide this decision making.

Updates to topics already underway

1. Consultation Service Update on this expected next week from Annick and Clare.

2. Education Program Randy met with the new CTSC Director of Educational Programming, Dr. Eric Rosenberg (MGH) and the MGH based Clinical Research Education Unit (Dr. Janet Hall, Liz Salomon and staff) on July 3rd. The great news is that this highly experienced team is going to facilitate the CTSC Education programming. They accepted gladly the role we hoped that they would of doing all the logistical support work for our educational offerings. In fact, Dr. Rosenberg offered to work with us as the "test case" for how to structure and deliver CTSC didactics. Their team had very specific, helpful suggestions for how to achieve our goal of disseminating the current state of the art of biomedical imaging capabilities and how to access them to the clinical translational investigators.

• A four (4) hour miniseries delivered one hour each week for

3. Collaborative response to Harvard wide Technology White Paper

4. Curation of Site resources Show website and get feedback for how to organize

5. Regulatory Issues Lowering barrier to utilization (GAC review? Applications????)

6. Face to face meeting dates

After the meeting, Randy and Ron began training Ann and Gordon on how to use this wiki. To be continued....