Monday 3-4 works fine. Now we need to decide where. I would appreciate seeing your current planning tools to help me think about what information to provide you. So I suggest meeting at your office. I would like to bring with Sudhir my computational/DSI expert. Sometime you might stop by my lab to see our tools fully. We will bring with a laptop to show you parts of it.
I look forward to having more time to explore the potentials of working together.
Walt
-----Original Message-----
From: Engh, Johnathan [mailto:EnghJA@upmc.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:04 PM
To: Walt Schneider
Subject: RE: Meet Walter Schneider to plan Connectome Presurgical Planning Standard Protocol
Walt-
How about Monday, April 28th at 3 or 4 pm or so.
Thanks,
Johnathan
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From: Walt Schneider [mailto:wws@imap.pitt.edu]
Sent: Thu 4/17/2008 8:44 AM
To: Engh, Johnathan
Subject: RE: Meet Walter Schneider to plan Connectome Presurgical Planning Standard Protocol
Dr Engh:
So lets meet. My schedule is quite open for next week. See Schneider Calendar <http://schneider.lrdc.pitt.edu/calender/waltcalender.htm> I can do most afternoon times except for today. I will also want to bring with Sudhir my computational imaging processing person.
Walt
-----Original Message-----
From: Engh, Johnathan [mailto:EnghJA@upmc.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 7:14 AM
To: wws@imap.pitt.edu
Cc: Kassam, Amin
Subject: Re: Meet Walter Schneider to plan Connectome Presurgical Planning Standard Protocol
Dr. Schneider-
This is very exciting to me. Could we meet in the late afternoon this week sometime?
Thanks,
Johnathan
----- Original Message -----
From: Walt Schneider <wws@imap.pitt.edu>
To: Engh, Johnathan
Cc: Kassam, Amin
Sent: Wed Apr 09 16:43:53 2008
Subject: Meet Walter Schneider to plan Connectome Presurgical Planning Standard Protocol
Dr Engh:
I got back from DC today. I heard from Fernando that there have been requests for scheduling patients for DSI scans. I think it would be good for us to sit down and go over what you would like to achieve in a Connectome scan for a patient and for us to discuss the scanning and analysis steps that have to be done to do it well. We should also talk about what data formats you want the results in. It would also be useful for me and Sudhir (my image processing person) to look at the methods you currently use for surgery planning to have a basis for tuning our methods to be most helpful.
I believe we can provide scans and the fiber tracks this month. Using our software and staff we can provide a report on the impact of the surgical route on the fiber tracks (like the slides I presented). I expect it will not be till June that we can do a full Connectome workup on a patient. We should also discuss the time constraints (e.g., how long in advance can we know about the scan, how long from the scan to you need to upload the data into your system).
I want to run couple of staff to test out the specific protocols that could be used as th standard DSI presurgical protocol.
Walt
-----Original Message-----
From: Kassam, Amin [mailto:kassamab@upmc.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:51 PM
To: Engh, Johnathan
Cc: wws@imap.pitt.edu
Subject: Re: THANKS
Dear walt
What a great talk! This is the future of intraaxial surgery! The synergies between you and johnathan are huge.
----- Original Message -----
From: Engh, Johnathan
To: Kassam, Amin
Cc: 'Walt Schneider' <wws@imap.pitt.edu>
Sent: Thu Apr 03 07:58:40 2008
Subject: THANKS
Dr. Schneider-
Thanks so much for your talk. The whole department was blown away. I hope that I was not abrupt afterward-unfortunately, our patient care conference followed your presentation, and we run on a very tight schedule for it.
It would be an honor to collaborate with your team. The potential applications for your work are both numerous and exciting. For now, I want you to know that Dr. Kassam and I are ready to do some work with you for our intra-axial tumor practice. Specifically, getting some of our patients to you for pre-op imaging, which we could use for surgical planning, and for post-op imaging, to evaluate our corridors, would be of enormous value. I think that the first question is where things stand with IRB clearance. What sort of IRB, if any, do you have for your work?
If there are potential applications which you would like to explore, please let me know. I would be happy to help make it happen. You will be shocked at how quickly things happen when Amin is behind it, and he is behind our minimally invasive intra-axial tumor initiative 100%. Call me anytime on my cell phone 412-956-3210 if you would like to discuss further. It would be great to talk about this again. Thanks again for the presentation-your work clearly represents a bright future for neuro-imaging.
Thanks,
Johnathan Engh
Department of Neurosurgery
Thank you!
Carmen
Carmen L. Barclay
Administrative Coordinator
Brain Imaging Research Center
3025 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Phone: 412.383.6700
Fax: 412.383.6799
Gaea is retiring at the conclusion of this semester, and there will be a special reception in her honor on May 8.
So, please mark your calendars, and expect more information in the weeks ahead.
Linda Kucan and Mary Kay Stein
Linda Kucan, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
School of Education
Department of Instruction and Learning
5113 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
230 South Bouquet Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
fax: 412-648-7081
office: 412-648-7348
home: 412-731-2181
FROM: Debbie Connell
DATE: April 15, 2008
The faculty meeting scheduled for Friday, May 16 is being moved up a week to Friday, May 9. The time (9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.) and place (Martin Room) remain the same. Please note this change on your calendar.
The next meeting will be Wed 14 from 10-noon ( Chuck is tied up then, but I could not find another time when we lost only one person, so I think this will have to do). Our agenda will include:
1. Further discussion of possible opportunity for synergy with School of Education 2. Discuss how grants not funneled through LRDC should relate to LRDC support. Data from Patsy needed for this.
3. Decide on "counting" rules for web-site hits.
Soon, Marge will be sending around another request for availability info so that we can schedule a meeting to review the self reports, which are due in mid-May.
Thanks.
Janet
Janet Ward Schofield, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Senior Scientist,
Learning Research and Development Center
517 LRDC
3939 O'Hara Street
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone 412-624-7473
Fax 412-624-7058
There is a research interest group called IMAGe which includes neurologists, psychiatrists, radiologists, neuropsychologists, graduate students and the odd post-doc. This group is focused on neuroimaging work as it pertains to geriatrics, and was born from a linking of the ADRC Imaging Core with like-minded investigators at the Late-Life Mood Disorders Center. We think that this might be the best venue for your presentation.
IMAGe has a meeting scheduled for 27th May (a Tuesday) at 2 pm. Is this time convenient for you ? The meeting will be held in the Parkvale Bank Building on Forbes Avenue (across from Baba D’s restaurant). There is a hook up for a projector for your lap top.
Let me know if this is OK with you. Alternatively, we could schedule a separate IMAGe meeting for you to present.
Jim