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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">We are
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">still soliciting volunteers for committee membership at the<span style="color:#212121"> 2<sup>nd</sup> MEG-North America meeting, to be held in Bethesda, Maryland November 8<sup>th</sup> and
9<sup>th</sup></span>. Committee meetings will be held on November 8<sup>th</sup>, with the scientific session on November 9<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">There are four committee/workgroups;
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">a broad suggestion of agenda items is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Reliability/reproducibility:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Topics include discussion of a standard battery to probe reproducibility across sites and platforms. Committee members may also works towards implementation
of the battery across multiple sites. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Data Sharing:
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Topics include the discussion of common data elements and formats or data structures, repository policies, infrastructure support and development, and facilitation
of data transfer into repositories. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Industry Partnerships:
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Discussions of collaborative partnerships between academia and industry, to facilitate goals of enhancing reproducibility and sharing, along with other areas
of collaboration mutually beneficial to research and clinical institutions and device developers/manufacturers. Representatives from both York Instruments and CTF have volunteered to join this committee.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Facilitating Best Practices:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Discussions to include how best to facilitate the emergence of best practices from the user community. What metrics can be used for identifying best practices,
characteristics of test datasets, and frameworks to identify robust processing pipelines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To volunteer, please e-mail
<a href="mailto:nihmegworkshop@gmail.com">nihmegworkshop@gmail.com</a> with your affiliation and which committee(s) you are willing to serve on. We will send confirmations to committee members by September 8<sup>th</sup>. Thank you for supporting our community!
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Please visit our website at </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://megworkshop.nih.gov/MEGWorkshop/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">https://megworkshop.nih.gov/MEGWorkshop/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Or register at: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meg-north-america-2017-tickets-36315511673?aff=utm_source%3Deb_email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnew_event_email&utm_term=eventurl_text" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0070C0">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meg-north-america-2017-tickets-36315511673</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">We hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Conference Chairs:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span class="highlight"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Richard</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> <span class="highlight">Coppola</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Allison Nugent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Steering Committee:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Sylvain Baillet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Dimitrios Pantazis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Timothy Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Julia Stephen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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