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 STUDENT ORAL PRESENTATIONS
    2.1    Introduction: Alex MacKay
      

3.0    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
   

4.0    PANEL DISCUSSION: 'Advanced white matter techniques (mcT2, qMT, DSI, etc.) will never reach widespread clinical utility

Panel:

Massimo Filippi, MD
Director of the Neuroimaging Research Unit
Professor of Clinical Neurology, Department of Neurology, Scientific Institute
and University Ospedale, San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Charles Guttmann, MD
Director of the Center for Neurological Imaging at Brigham and Women's
Hospital and Assistant Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School, USA
Derek Jones, PhD
Director of MRI, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre,
Professor, Cardiff University, UK
Greg Stanisz, PhD
Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

This was a stimulating and generally optimistic event which gave us reason to hope that our research on new technique developments for white matter characterisation will have important clinical applications.

5.0    White Matter Study Group Workshop ’11

Sean Deoni gave a brief presentation on the theme and location of our next White Matter
Study Group Workshop. The essential details are presented below. He will be circulating more details about this exciting meeting as the plans evolve.

Advanced White Matter Imaging - Approaches to Acquisition & Analysis
Planned Location:   Reykjavik, Iceland
Planned Venue:      Grand Hotel Reykjavik
Planned Date:       Aug. 22-25, 2011
Working Budget:     $70,000 - $100,000 USD
Tentative Program Topics:
Day 1:        White Matter Imaging: Applications and New Research Avenues
Day 2:        Acquisition Methods: The Manual That Should Have Been Included
Day 3:        Approaches to Analysis
Day 4:        Emerging Results in White Matter Imaging

6.0    Adjournment:
  
Meeting adjourned at 20:45pm.

Next meeting: May 2011, Montreal.

2009 - Honolulu

2008 - Toronto

2007 - Berlin

2006 - Seattle

2005 - Miami