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Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 7, 2008

In Attendance (via phone):

• Randy Gollub
• Carolyn Zyloney
• Sarah McMordie
• Bill Hanlon
• Gordon Williams

1. Report from the CTSA Working Group Bi-Monthly Call (October 20th, 2008)

• Dan Sullivan led the t-con. Ron Kikinis, Bill Hanlon, and Randy Gollub were present and represented the Harvard CTSC.

• Currently the TIMC (tumor imaging metrics core) offers its data analysis services to investigators within the DFHCC.
  • There is interest from other CTSCs at non-Harvard sites in the tumor core and how it runs its business.
  • Before we proceed with sharing the strategies employed by the TIMC with the world, the DFHCC will decide what information they wish to make publicly available.

• Bill Hanlon has been invited to present information about the TIMC at the RSNA meeting.

• One topic of discussion at the CTSA t-con was the idea of setting up standardized measurements and standardizing the cost of image acquisition and analysis.

• IRAT, the Imaging Response Assessment Team, has the goal of providing funding to encourage clinical collaboration between imaging scientists and oncologic investigators at Cancer Centers to identify new oncologic imaging research opportunities in clinical trials that warrant multi-center clinical investigations and integrate imaging data as potential biomarkers or candidate surrogate markers in clinical therapeutic trials. IRAT is entering its third year of funding, but will no longer receive its funding from the National Cancer Institute, and may look to the CTSCs as a source of funding.

• Few other CTSCs have as big an imaging presence as the Harvard CTSC because our Imaging group has superior funding and is well organized. This puts the Harvard CTSC in a leadership position.

• Bill Hanlon has been invited to the November 7th meeting in Chicagoland.
  • The meeting can be used to work out the details of the NIBIB grant proposal to support medical image informatics. We can share i2b2 and XNAT informatics details.

• The informatics we develop internally should be interoperable with the national effort for informatics, but we should not let this goal lower our efficiency in developing XNAT.

2. Communication with Imaging Community

• The Imaging Consortium has obtained the slides from the CTSC retreat. Gordon Williams will obtain the CTSC central prepared PowerPoint presentation.
• The Imaging Consortium will work together at the next meeting to prepare additional slides about the Imaging Consortium and its consultation service.
• Consortium members will use this PowerPoint to present the CTSC Imaging Consultation Services at the Radiology Division Heads Meetings within each institution.

3. Imaging Navigator Job

• Carolyn has contacted the HR departments at Harvard and MGH to post the Imaging Navigator job.
• Consortium members and personnel within the Radiology Departments at each institution may be able to suggest suitable job candidates.
• Carolyn has also submitted the job description to RSNA. It will be posted on the RSNA website and featured in the December issue of Radiology.
• Randy requests the assistance of consortium members at other institutions to help get the job description posted there through each institutions respective HR department.

4. Budget update

• The CTSC Imaging budget is large enough to fund several additional projects, which will be discussed at the next meeting.