Hopkins Imaging Initiative: Organizational Update

[Issel Anne Lim]

Hello, Everyone --

At our last organizational meeting, we restructured the Hopkins Imaging Initiative (HI^2) into four main committees: Curriculum, Lecture (Tutorials/Seminars), Networking (Professional/Events), and Compilation (Resources/Web). Each committee includes a leader and several subcommittees in charge of more specific responsibilities.

Each committee leader will contact people who have indicated their interest in each committee, as detailed on this spreadsheet. They will arrange meetings to appoint subcommittee leaders and accomplish the tasks outlined in our notes. To be listed as an official committee member on the website, you must contribute and/or attend an organizational meeting. Below, you'll find meeting minutes and a newly revised "Join the Initiative" form. . 

Newly Revised Links:

- Organizational Structure of the Imaging Initiative: http://imaging.jhu.edu/about-us

- Notes from the Organizational Meeting: http://imaging.jhu.edu/about-us/notes

- Organizational Mailing List Email Archives: http://groups.google.com/group/johnshopkinsimaging/topics

** Note: If you cannot access the Google Group, then you are not a member of that Google group and therefore must request a subscription.

How to Join the Initiative:

- Submit the Online Form: http://imaging.jhu.edu/join-the-initiative

- General Announcements Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/imaginginitiative/subscribe

- Organizational Committee: http://groups.google.com/group/johnshopkinsimaging/subscribe

Also, please email johnshopkinsim...@gmail.com with recommendations for resources (links, software, media, reviews, etc.) so that we can start building the compilation section of our website. You can also submit feedback online via http://imaging.jhu.edu/share-info

Thank you very much! :)

~~
Issel Anne L. Lim
PhD Candidate
Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
http://alum.mit.edu/www/issel
is...@jhu.edu
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Included Below: 

- Meeting Minutes from 2011-05-05

- Join the Initiative: Revised Form

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Hopkins Imaging Initiative: Meeting Minutes

2011-05-05

 

Structure of the Training Grant

-          Four main committees:

o   Curriculum

o   Lecture (Tutorials / Seminars)

o   Networking (Professional / Events)

o   Compilation (Resources / Web)

-          Each committee has a leader and several subcommittees

o   Structure: http://imaging.jhu.edu/about-us

o   You may be officially listed as a member of a committee if you have contributed to the committee and attended an organizational meeting

-          Imaging Initiative Organization:

o   Published with email addresses:

§  https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Amm8Um9b8zBzdDV6MnhJY0JwX1hJLXc4UDhFNGhMamc&hl=en&authkey=CI310fUP#gid=7

o   Published with names only:

§  https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Amm8Um9b8zBzdDBUbUFGRDdQVVRaa3k2OXViUDNxQ1E&output=html

 

The Curriculum Committee

-          Leaders: Jessica Mavadia (johnshopkinsima...@gmail.com)

-          Current official members: Bradley Harden, Carmen Kut, Shadi , Amir Pourmorteza, Hassan Mohy-ud-Din

-          Faculty: Xingde Li, Jeff Siewerdsen, Elliot McVeigh

-          Included Areas

o   Planning suggested curriculum for each imaging area

o   Academic Evaluations

§  Reviews of classes, professors, media

o   Intercession courses

§  Recruit students to give intense advanced courses instead of TA-ing

o   Clinical classes

§  Sitting in on case reviews, interesting lectures, etc.

 

The Lecture Committee (Tutorials / Seminars)

-          Leader: Carmen Kut (johnshopkinsi...@gmail.com)

-          Current official members: Jaymin, Kwame, Shadi, Issel, Wenxuan

-          Included Areas

o   Imaging Tutorials and workshops (given by professors, senior students, post-docs, etc.)

§  Recorded ten-minute videos (like MIT Open Courseware or the Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/)

§  Tasks

·         Create online web form for students and faculty to suggest mini-courses of lectures that would be most useful for imaging students

·         People can vote online for:

o   Specific lecturers to produce more or longer videos

o   Topics that they want to cover

·         Schedule a time and a room (Fall? Weekly? Monthly?) or just record lectures?

·         Create a schedule for recording

§  Topics

·         What are the prerequisites for imaging courses? These could fill in some gaps (i.e., if a clinician wants to know "the essentials" of Fourier Transforms, he could watch this lecture)

·         Step-by-step tutorials on how to use imaging software

·         Fourier Transforms, Biostatistics, MRI, Neuroanatomy

·         Clinical overviews: anatomy, essential clinical techniques

§  Possible Lectures

·         Fourier Transforms: Alan Huang

·         PET: Dr. Arman Rahmim

·         Simulations (analytical, Monte Carlo): Nicholas Karakatsanis

o   Recruitment chalk talks

§  Professors introduce research projects and opportunities for trainees

§  Answer the questions: My lab does ___, ___, and ___. A student in my lab would work on ___, ___, and ___.

o   Seminars

§  Credits for seminar attendance (Cathy Jancuk, Hong Lan)

§  See a series of lectures for big shot professors over intercession (reimburse for travel)

·         Suggestions: Drs. Bruce Rosen, Scott Fraser

·         Lectures for BME Seminars or Intercession Course

·         Lesson afterwards or beforehand (an hour or more chalk talk w/ the imaging students)

§  Find students to present at the BME FSSHH

 

The Networking Committee (Professional / Events)

-          Leaders: Geran Kostecki (johnshopkins...@gmail.com)

-          Current official members: Liheng Guo, Amir Pourmorteza, Di Xu, Sahar Soleimanifard, Sebastian Schaefer

-          Included Areas:

o   Imaging Research Conference / Research Day: October or November

§  Work with Joyce, Melanie to get rooms, facilities

§  A few "big" professor speakers, student presentations

§  Conference that showcases all imaging at JHU?

§  Cardiology training grant: May 19^th and 20^th

o   Imaging Competitions/Awards

§  Subcommittee Leader: Giann Gorospe

§  "Most Awesome Image" Competition

o   Jobs: johnshopkin...@gmail.com

§  Talking about career trajectory for different companies, government agencies, academia

§  Tips on interviewing / finding a job

§  Create job blog or some forum to post jobs online

§  Prospective jobs can be forwarded to johnshopkin...@gmail.com

o   Alumni: johnshopkinsi...@gmail.com

§  Compiling a database of alumni to show where we go

o   Recruitment: johnshopkinsima...@gmail.com

§  Answering emails from prospective students

§  Presenting JHU BME at conferences (BMES)

§  Directly email departments (EE, BME, etc.)

§  Organize lab tours and imaging-related networking for recruitment weekend

o   Professional Interests: Database

§  Subcommittee Leaders: Liheng Guo, Sahar Soleimanifard

§  Contact: johnshopkinsimag...@gmail.com

§  Contact industry professionals to:

·         Partner in research internships

·         Provide job prospects

·         Utilize resources

o   Mailing list for volunteers

o   Community Service

 

 

The Compilation Committee (Resources / Web)

-          Leader: Di Xu (johnshopkin...@gmail.com)

-          Current official members: Issel Anne Lim, Kwame Kutten (calendar), Wenxuan Liang, Giann Gorospe

-          Calendar email: johnshopkinsim...@gmail.com

-          Included Areas:

o   Resources

§  Links

§  Available software and databases (and where to get them; see previous minutes for suggestions)

§  Useful media, books, conferences

§  Names of all imaging researchers and groups at JHU

·         Faculty bios

·         Names of lab members

§  Media gallery showcasing the work from the imaging groups at JHU

§  Available thesis or rotation projects under each faculty member

§  Publications from JHU imaging affiliates (this could be a link to a PubMed search for "Johns Hopkins" + "imaging")

o   Publicity + Historian

§  Photographs, videos, recording events, recording imaging tutorials

§  Posting an easy-to-read blurb about each imaging area for non-science-y people

§  Controversial issues in imaging and how we deal with them

·         Examples: MRI safety (gadolinium + NSF), CT radiation exposure, PET radioactivity

·         Links to articles, FDA regulations

o   Online surveys

§  Google forms to gather member feedback

o   Maintain mailing lists

§  Announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/imaginginitiative

§  Organizational: http://groups.google.com/group/johnshopkinsimaging

§  Volunteers for imaging studies

·         Join this mailing list to get requests from researchers looking for volunteers (researchers specify age, gender, conditions that they're looking for)

·         Or link to: http://trials.johnshopkins.edu/?ctg=imaging

§  Imaging Initiative Organization:

·         https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CI310fUP&hl=en&key=t5z2xIcBp_XI-w8P8E4hLjg&hl=en&authkey=CI310fUP#gid=0

o   Calendar

§  Subcommittee Leaders: Kwame Kutten

§  Contact: johnshopkinsim...@gmail.com

§  Combining all imaging events / seminars / journal clubs / conferences from various calendars (CIS, ICMIC, JHU, Kirby Center)

§  Add johnshopkinsim...@gmail.com to the imaging mailing lists so that the event alerts will be forwarded to the calendar coordinator

§  Send weekly email about imaging events for that week

               

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Subject: Join the Imaging Initiative!
To: is...@jhu.edu

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Join the Imaging Initiative!

This form is for people who are interested in joining the Johns Hopkins Imaging Initiative (http://imaging.jhu.edu). Please see http://imaging.jhu.edu/about-us for details on who we are and what we do. Once you've indicated your interests and come to our organizational meeting, we will list your name on our website under your selected subcommittees. If you want to help with the website, we can immediately add your Google account as an author and "Web Editor." To simply join our mailing lists, go to the mailing list webpages and "request to join." To avoid spammers, we will only approve people who answer the membership questions. General Announcements: http://groups.google.com/group/imaginginitiative/subscribe Organizational Committees: http://groups.google.com/group/johnshopkinsimaging/subscribe If you would like any more information, or if you have recommendations for resources to put on our website, please email johnshopk...@gmail.com

Your Name * (Format: Firstname, Lastname, Titles)

Your Email Address * (We'll be adding this to our mailing lists.)

Your Job Position (For Example: PhD Candidate, Assistant Professor)

Advisor (Format: Firstname, Lastname, Titles; For Example: Elliot McVeigh, PhD)

Your Lab / Group / Department (Examples: The F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Biomedical Engineering)

Imaging Area (Which imaging area(s) does your research involve?)

• CT
• MRI
• PET
• SPECT
• X-Ray
• Optical Imaging
• Biophotonic Imaging
• Microscopes
• Image Analysis
• Clinical Imaging
• Radiology
• Microbiology
• Basic Science
• Engineering
• Other:

Research Interests (Please write one to two sentences or list several key words that describe your research interests. We may eventually put this on our website.)

The Johns Hopkins Imaging Initiative

Which areas would you be interested in joining, planning, or leading? Once you've indicated your interests and come to our organizational meeting, we will list your name on our website under your selected subcommittees. If you want to help with the website, we can add your Google account as an author and "Web Editor." Please see http://imaging.jhu.edu/about-us for details on who we are and what we do.

General Interest (What would you like to do? Please select all that apply. If you want to help with the website, we can add your Google account as a "Web Editor.")

• Join the general mailing list for announcements
• Join the organizational mailing list for planning and leading
• Adding information to the website (list your Google account in the "Other" box)
• Other:

Committee: Curriculum (Which areas would you be interested in joining, planning, or leading?)

• Curriculum planning for each imaging area
• Evaluations (reviewing classes, teachers, media)
• Intercession courses
• Clinical courses
• Other:

Committee: Tutorials / Seminars (Which areas would you be interested in joining, planning, or leading?)

• Imaging Tutorials (short videos about specific topics)
• Software workshops
• Recruitment chalk-talks
• Seminars
• Other:

Committee: Professional / Events / Networking (Which areas would you be interested in joining, planning, or leading?)

• Professional / Alumni Database
• Jobs (compiling job offers, advice, panels)
• JHU Imaging Conference
• Recruitment (prospective students)
• Imaging Competitions / Awards
• Community Service
• Other:

Committee: Resources / Web (Which areas would you be interested in joining, planning, or leading?)

• Resources (compiling or suggesting links, media, software, etc.)
• Publicity (communicating what we do)
• Historian (photographs/media recording events)
• Online surveys (member feedback)
• Maintaining mailing lists
• Adding events to calendar
• Other:

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