Stockholm - 2010 - To be approved at next annual meeting

WMSG Annual Meeting
Monday 03 May 2010, 18:45
Room A9
Stockholm, Sweden

Board Members in Attendance: Alex MacKay, Sean Deoni, Hugo Vrenken, Bruce Pike, Shannon Kolind, Stefan Ropele
Total number of voting members present > 20 (Quorum reached)

Meeting was called to order at 18:45

1.0     Welcome (Alex MacKay)
   
1.1   Approval of minutes from April, 2009
        Moved/Seconded: Bruce Pike
        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:
        406 total members, representing 31 countries.

1.5   Introduction of New Committee Members / Thanks to Outgoing Committee Members:
    1.5.1 New Committee Members:    
                        Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott
                        Klaus Schmierer
                        Rebecca Samson (student representative)

    1.5.2 Outgoing Members:   
                       Stefan Ropele
                       Shannon Kolind (student representative)   
 

2.0    WMSG INVITED TALKS - “MY IDEAL MRI PROTOCOL FOR STUDYING WHITE MATTER”
    2.1    Introduction: Derek Jones
       “My ideal MRI protocol for studying white matter” according to:
          2.1.1    Paul Tofts and Nicolas Dowell.
          2.2.2    Alex MacKay (given by David Li and Irene Vavasour).
          2.2.3    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 POSTER COMPETITION (Shannon Kolind)
    Finalists:
    1569 Els Fieremans: "White matter model for diffusional kurtosis imaging"
    2998 Ives Levesque: "A simple iterative reduction method for optimization of quantitative Magnetization Transfer Imaging"
    4311 Adrienna Dula; "Application of CEST imaging to study amide proton transfer (APT) in healthy controls and MS pathology at 7T"
    5124 Bing Yao: "Towards an in-vivo and post-mortem characterization of chronic multiple sclerosis lesions using susceptibility-related mechanisms of contrast at ultra-high field"

    Winner:     1569 Els Fieremans
    Prize:         Book : “Radiographic Atlas of Skull and Brain Anatomy: Atlas of Radiographic Anatomy"; M. Gallucci, S. Capoccia, A. Catalucci

5.0    New Business

6.0    Adjournment:
  
Meeting adjourned at 20:45pm.

Next meeting: May 2011, Montreal.

2009 - Honolulu

2008 - Toronto

2007 - Berlin

2006 - Seattle

2005 - Miami