Toronto - 2008

WMSG Annual Meeting
Monday 7 May 2008, 19:30
Room 701 A
Toronto, Canada

Board Members in Attendance: Greg Stanisz, Charles Guttman, Roland Henry, Derek Jones, Hugo Vrenken, Stefan Ropele, Ives Levesque
Exiting Board Members in Attendance: Corree Laule, Egill Rostrop, Thor Bjarnason
Total number of voting members present: 25 (Quorum reached)
Total number non-voting members present: 50

Meeting was called to order at 19:42pm

1.0    Welcome

1.1    Introduction of new members
1.1.1    Derek Jones, Hugo Vrenken (committee members)
1.1.2    Ives Levesque (student member)
1.1.3    Roland Henry (secretary)

1.2    Adoption of current agenda
Moved/Second: Roland Henry/Corree Laule
Motion carried.

1.3    Approval of minutes from May, 2007
Moved/Second: Charles Guttman/Roland Henry
Motion carried.

1.4    Items resulting from the previous minutes
No items were brought to the attention of the executive.
1.5    Statistics
1.5.1    WMSG Membership 2006 - 2008

1.5.2    WMSG Membership numbers from around the world (2008)

2.0    WMSG Workshop

2.1    Welcome
2.2    Call to members to look for funding sources. 
2.2.1    So far we have the following sponsors: Merck Serono, MS Society of Canada, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Bruker

2.3    Scientific sessions:
2.3.1   Mechanisms of WM injury
2.3.2   MRI Specificity and Sensitivity
2.3.3     Regeneration & Intervention

2.4    url: www.whitematterinjury.org

 3.0    WMSG INVITED TALKS – “UNCONVENTIONAL WHITE MATTER IMAGING”

3.1    Introduction – Roland Henry

3.2    "What can we see on Brain Metabolism at Ultra-high Field" Pierre-Gilles Henry, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, MN, USA

3.3    "Beyond Proton: Clinical Applications of Multinuclear MR in White Matter" Alexander Lin and Pom Sailasuta, Huntington Medical Research Institute, Pasadena, CA, USA

4.1    Summary of finalists (Thor Bjarnason, Roland Henry, Wendy Oakden)

•    3 finalists were selected:

Fobel R, Stanisz G. Improved detection of non-Gaussian diffusion with nonlinear fitting at high b-values. ISMRM: Toronto, Canada, 16; 1859 (2008).

Levesque IR, Giacomini PS, Narayanan S, Ribeiro LT, Sled JG, Arnold DL, Pike GB. Evolution of quantitative magnetization transfer imaging parameters in acute lesions of multiple sclerosis. ISMRM: Toronto, Canada, 16; 2138 (2008).

Landman BA, Farrell JA, Smith SA, Calabresi PA, van Zijl PC, Prince JL. Exploring the information content of q-space diffusion weighted imaging: application ot multiple sclerosis (MS) spinal cord lesions.

•    Criteria for winner included: Was the work novel and useful? Was it the student’s independent work?

4.2    Announcement of winner (Paul Tofts)

•    Ryan Fobel
•    Prize – Book: “Quantitative MRI of the Brain”, edited by Paul Tofts, presented by Paul

 5.0    Current Status of the Study Group (Greg Stanisz)

 6.0    2008 White Matter Study Group Workshop (Charles Guttmann)

•    Wiki: www.wmsg.org
•    Next WMSG workshop September 24-26, 2008 (Krakow) “Pathogenesis, Detection and Implications of White Matter Injury”
 

 7.0    Adjournment

Motion to adjourn.
Moved/Second: Corree Laule / Irene Vavasour
Motion carried.

Meeting adjourned at 8:55pm

Next meeting: May 2008, Toronto
 

2007 - Berlin

2006 - Seattle

2005 - Miami