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Agenda

1. Consultations
2. JIRA
3. Education program
4. Slides for Grand Rounds
5. Informatics update

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes July 21, 2009

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Clare Tempany
• Charles Guttmann
• Todd Perlstein
• Yong Gao
• Randy Gollub
• Laura Alice
• Simon Warfield
• Jeff Yapp
• Wendy Plensiak
• Mark Anderson
• Gordon Williams
• Gordon Harris
• Ron Kikinis
• Bob Lenkinski

1. Update on imaging consultation requests

• There was no new consultation submitted through the Catalyst website this week

2. JIRA

• JIRA was launched on July 16, all the consortium members should checked that they have access to the system. A user guide to JIRA will be posted on this WIKI. Valerie can give additional individual JIRA demonstration.
• Valerie will enter all the legacy data in the JIRA system.

3. Education program

• Randy will meet the Director of the Catalyst post-graduate program to learn more about this new program and what the role of the imaging consortium will be. She then will schedule a follow-up meeting with Jeff and Valerie.
• Gordon W. reminded the group that the group needs to be able to present a very good program where everybody is involved. We must survey the educational needs of the community and fill the gap. Those courses will not be related to a degree.
• Last week Jeff participated to a full 7 days workshop organized by the AACR designed for junior and mid/level biostatisticians. It was a case-based learning program on how to design and conduct a clinical trial. In the fall, AACR will be in Harvard to run a training program for early career translational scientists. Jeff agreed to give a lecture on imaging.
• Jeff, Ron, Wendy and Mark will start working with the data sent by the group at Johns Hopkins. The goal is to determine if Slicer can be used as a teaching tool for quantitative imaging.