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Agenda
- Consultations update
- Planning of 2011 activities (education, meetings etc)
Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes January 11, 2010
In attendance:
- Valerie Humblet
- Gordon Williams
- Clare Tempany
- Jeff Yap
- Laura Alice
- Simon Warfield
- Charles Guttmann
- Annick Van den Abbeele
- Bob Lenkinski
1. Consultations update
- This week we received two different requests about 3D imaging of breast reconstruction and a request about postpartum depression.
Planning of 2011 activities
- Education:
- The mission is to better educate people about the different aspect of imaging: screening for disease, phenotyping, biomarkers development.
- Biomarkers: it is a very hot topics, including at the NIH. We will continue to offer the introductory talk about biomarkers developed by Jeff for the RSNA. During all the other lectures, we should always link what it presented to the field of biomarkers. We need to educate the community more about the quantitative metrics, validation etc.
- Audience: it is important to also reach out to the senior people in the different departments.
- The importance of tech training in research practice will also be address this year.
- The group would be ready to deliver education to pharmaceuticals company if there is a demand.
- Multi-center imaging trial:
- The activities of this group are tightly linked to the education program.
- The group is listing all the ACR phantoms at the different institutions, is writing a protocol for MRI neuroimaging trial and can guide investigators who want to use a more complicated protocol.
- Next step will be to exchange ACR images between institutions.
- Clare suggested to write imaging manuals for the different modalities (with people to contact, procedure etc) and post them on the Harvard Catalyst website and our wiki.
- NCATS
- The latest news from the CTSA community is that the CTSA grants will be managed by the new National Center for Advancing Translational Science: NCATS.
- Our mission is to make sure that our activities reach the goals of the NCATS. We will discuss this action items in the next meetings.
- National and international meeting.
- We plan to continue to offer education sessions both at the ACRIN annual meeting and at RSNA 2011
