Honolulu - 2009 - To be approved at next annual meeting

WMSG Annual Meeting
Wednesday 22 April 2009, 19:30
Room 312
Honolulu, USA

Board Members in Attendance: Derek Jones, Sean Deoni, Hugo Vrenken, Bruce Pike, Shannon Kolind, Greg Stanisz, Charles Guttmann, Roland Henry
Total number of voting members present: 22 (Quorum reached)

Meeting was called to order at 19:41

1.0     Welcome (Greg Stanisz)
   
1.1    Approval of minutes from May, 2008
        Moved/Seconded: Greg Stanisz / Roland Henry
        Motion Carried.

1.2    Items resulting from previous minutes.
    No items brought to attention of the executive.

1.3    Re-instatement of the White Matter Study Group.

1.4    Review of Committee Membership:
    384 total members, representing 34 countries.

1.5    Introduction of New Committee Members / Thanks to Outgoing Committee Members:
    1.5.1 New Committee Members:    
                        Alex MacKay (chairman elect)
                        Sean Deoni
                        Bruce Pike
                        Shannon Kolind (student representative)

    1.5.2 Outgoing Members:   
                    Greg Stanisz (chairman)
                    Charles Guttmann
                    Roland Henry

   
1.6    Thanks to Outgoing Committee Chairman (Greg Stanisz): Derek Jones

2.0    WMSG INVITED TALKS - “MY IDEAL MRI PROTOCOL FOR STUDYING WHITE MATTER”
    2.1    Introduction: Derek Jones
    2.2    “XXXX” Paul Tofts and Nicolas Dowell.
    2.3    “XXXX” Alex MacKay (given by David Li and Irene Vavasour).
    2.4    “XXXX” Roland Henry.

3.0    Discussion of next White Matter Study Group Workshop
    3.1    Possible Topics / Themes:     White Matter Perfusion
                         Structure-Function Relationships
                        Tractography
    3.2    Derek Jones and Executive are going to explore the possibility of hosting a joint meeting with the Diffusion & Perfusion Study Group given the overlapping interests.
    3.3    Next meeting should take place sometime in 2011.

4.0    STUDENT AWARDS (Ives Levesque)
    Finalists:
    953 Enendino Hernandez Torres, Universidad de Guanajuato
    1304 Erin MacMillan, University of Bern
    3215 Ivan Kirov, New York University
    3414 Hesam Jehanian, University of Michigan

    Winner:    3414 Hesam Jehanian
    Prize:         Book : “Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A Signal Processing Prospective” (Liang and Lauterbur)

5.0    New Business

6.0    Adjournment:
    Motion to Adjourn.
    Moved / Seconded: Greg Stanisz / Derek Jones
    Motion Carried.

Meeting adjourned at 8:47pm.

Next meeting: May 2010, Stockholm.

2008 - Toronto

2007 - Berlin

2006 - Seattle

2005 - Miami