Advanced Technology QA Consortium (ATC) Steering
Hosted by RTOG
RTOG Headquarters, 1818 Market Street, Suite 1600
Philadelphia, PA
October 3, 2008

List of Attendees

The goals, as specified in the 2006 RFA for our ATC renewal application, are to be accomplished through the following developmental, coordination, and service objectives:
  1. Eliminate duplication of infrastructure developmental efforts and facilitate sharing of QA resources among cooperative groups.
  2. Help to insure that appropriate and uniform QA procedures and criteria for advanced technology trials are developed across all cooperative groups.
  3. Facilitate/help manage the uniform credentialing of institutions for advanced radiotherapy trial protocols.
  4. Facilitate/manage digital data protocol submission.
  5. Facilitate/manage the QA review of submitted data.
  6. Further the development of methods for rapid analysis of volumetric treatment planning data.
  7. Assist clinical trial cooperative groups in the development of clinical trials protocols including: (a) credentialing requirements; (b) target volume definitions; (c) quality assurance procedures; and (d) data submission instructions.
  8. Develop, implement, and maintain innovative methods for electronic exchange of digital planning data between institutions participating in clinical trials and between QA Centers.
  9. Develop, implement, and maintain innovative web-based software tools to facilitate protocol digital data reviews by Study Chairs, Dosimetry Groups, the Radiological Physics Center (RPC), and the Quality Assurance Review Center (QARC).
  10. Develop, implement, and maintain archival treatment planning and QA databases that can be linked with the cooperative groups? clinical outcomes databases.
  11. Demonstrate understanding of and ability to achieve compatibility with existing software and electronic health record standards, including the Cancer Bioinformatics Grid (caBIG) and DICOM RT.

Meeting Agenda (with links to presentations in PDF format)

8:00 AM   Welcome by Local Hosts (O'Meara, Galvin)
8:05 AM   Project Officer Report (Deye)
8:10 AM   P.I.'s Report (Purdy)
  • Summary of key issues from ATC Steering Committee Mtg
  • EMBRACE Project
  • Other issues
8:30 AM   RTOG/ATC (O'Meara, Galvin, and RTOG Staff)
  • Hands-on demonstrations of RTOG's informatics technology and workflow for clinical trials QA
  • Review of current clinical trial QA efforts
  • Update on ACR TRIAD-OA, VIEW
9:30 AM   Tour of ACR Core Labs
10:00 AM   Break
10:30 AM   ATC Committee on Credentialing/QA (Followill)
11:00 AM   Update on QRRO-ATC efforts (Devlin, Owens, Bosch)
11:10 AM   ATC Informatics Committee (Bosch)
  • 2-year developmental schedule for QuASA2R (Bosch)
  • Update on ATC efforts regarding DICOM WG-7, IHE-RO, and work with RTP vendors to achieve ATC compliance (Bosch)
11:30 AM   VisionTree Presentation (Christopher Malamet)
11:45 AM   Q&A Session regarding VisionTree by ATC
12:00 PM   Lunch
1:00 PM   RPC(ATC) Report,   Yr10 plans based on Yr9 accomplishments and ATC Steering Committee feedback (Ibbott)
1:20 PM   QARC(ATC) Yr10 plans based on Yr9 accomplishments and ATC Steering Committee feedback (FitzGerald, Ulin)
1:40 PM   ITC(ATC) Yr10 plans based on Yr9 accomplishments and ATC Steering Committee feedback (Bosch)
2:00 PM   RTOG(ATC) Yr10 plans based on Yr9 accomplishments and ATC Steering Committee feedback (O'Meara, Galvin)
2:20 PM   Open session (Purdy and all participants)
  • Review of action items
  • Review of software development priorities and time tables
  • Develpment of new ATC action items list and priorities
  • Preparation for ATC Evaluation Committee Meeting
  • Set dates for next Meetings/Teleconferences
4:30 PM   Adjourn


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Send email to: itc@castor.wustl.edu
Phone: 314-747-5415
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