CTSA IMAGING WORKING GROUP SUBGROUPS

The Development and Management of Imaging Core Resources and Services Group/Education in Imaging subgroup is co-chaired by Brian Reynolds, PhD, of Duke University and Katarzyna Macura, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University. 

The subgroup addresses issues related to imaging cores including:

• Defining what constitutes an institutional imaging core;
• Creating an inventory of available imaging technology at    an institution;
• Determining what value-added imaging tools can be made available to researchers across the institution;
• Developing user agreements and pricing strategies for the utilization of both imaging equipment and the consulting services of imaging subject matter experts;
• Strategies to enhance awareness of the core’s existence and knowledge on how it may provide benefit to investigators; and
• Examining how an imaging core might provide general guidance and education regarding imaging methodologies to investigators. 

Related to education in imaging, the objectives of the group are to:

• Educate the broad medical community about imaging's role and capabilities in translational research; and
  
• Educate the radiology community and trainees about emerging imaging technologies, successful uses of imaging in translational research at other CTSA institutions and methods of engaging themselves in translational research.

Other topics may be added at the discretion of the group.

Resources

Quantitative Medical Imaging for Clinical Research and Practice
Educational Session presented at ACRIN meeting, September 30, 2009  

Presenters

Randy L. Gollub, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research
Program Director Biomedical Imaging Core, Clinical Research Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Member of the Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) at HMS
Presentation

Katarzyna J. Macura, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology and Urology
The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 
Presentation 

Jeffrey T. Yap, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Senior Diagnostic Physicist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Radiology and Division of Nuclear Medicine
Presentation

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