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Agenda

1. Consultation
2. Education plan for 2011
3. Y4 Budget justification

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes February 8, 2010

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Randy Gollub
• Gordon Harris
• Clare Tempany
• Jeff Yap
• Simon Warfield
• Annick Van den Abbeele
• Stephan Voss
• Bob Lenkinski

1. Consultations update

• This week we had 2 new requests, one on 3D images in solid models, one about analysis of fMRI sequences.

2. Education plan for 2011

• On March 15 and 16, Clare, Bob and Jeff are giving talks during the Intensive Training in Translational Medicine, Module 1 - Biomarkers and Imaging in Drug Development.
• Jeff met with Ted Treves from CHB who is the Director of the Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine. He organized a molecular imaging course (audience: residents and post-doc) and would like to make it more accessible to a broader audience. Jeff offered the help of our group if there is a need for speaker, we will also support them to advertise the course. Ted expressed his interest in having video recording for clinical people who have difficulties to attend.
• Bob will follow up with Ivan on the angiogenesis course development.
• Valerie and Randy are working on scheduling a series of 1h lecture on fMRI at the different institutions followed by 2 full days boot camp during the fall.
• Any RSNA education abstract for RSNA 2011 must be submitted by March 31.

3. # Y4 Budget justification

• Everybody received a table with Y3 consultations done per consultant to help writing Y4 budget justification. Anyone who expect to do more than logged for Y3 need to justify their plan of action.
• To track the national effort: lectures, courses go under education and meetings (IWG, UPIC) go under management.
• Valerie will send a proposition for a new vision for the imaging program that is based on more one-to-on mentoring. Everybody agreed that it is a good model.
• We need to track preliminary metrics resulting from consultations because papers, grants are always months ago. There are a lot of milestones necessary to an outcome: submission of a study, 1st acquisition of data.
• Several members asked to learn more about our medical imaging informatics effort, during our March 8 face-to-face meeting, Randy and Yong will make a presentation.
• This year the multicenter trial group must deliver concrete thing. The most valuable is to do a couple of cross-Harvard studies from conception to recruitment, acquisition, analysis and management.
• It is important to highlight to help provided to people outside of the Radiology Department.