ITMIG Committees and Working Groups

Chair: Anja Roden, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA

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Members:

• Past-President – Nicolas Girard, Institute Curie, Paris, France
• Vice President – Malgorzata Szolkowska, The Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland
• Secretary – Paolo Mendogni, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
• Treasurer – Dirk Van Raemdonck, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• Executive Director – Pam Bruce, New York

Aim: Planning the direction of development and key activities of ITMIG.

Meetings: Every  Thursday at 10 AM EDT (EST)/4 PM CEST (CET)

Chair: Wentao Fang, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China

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Aim: Creating, leading and/or supervising of scientific projects on mediastinal diseases.

Meetings: Every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 8 AM EDT/2 PM CEST.

ITMIG projects are available HERE.

All ITMIG members are welcome to join the Committee!

Chair: Chul Kim, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

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Aim: The promotion of ITMIG activities among members and public:

• Maintenance and updates of an ITMIG webpage
• Email communication with members
• Promotion of ITMIG events and news in social media
• Maintenance of a channel for ITMIG videos on youtube.com (ITMIG Non-profit organization)
• Elaboration of annual newsletter
• Coordination of ITMIG webinars and annual conference
• Coordination of events organized for a celebration of the Thymic Malignancy Awareness Month

Meetings: Every 2nd Tuesday of the month at 9 AM EDT/3 PM CEST

All ITMIG members are welcome to join the Committee!

Chair: Paolo Mendogni, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

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Aim: Recruitment of new members of different specialties: thoracic surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists, neurologists, nuclear medicine physicians and so on, who are interested in thymic malignancies as well as in all anterior mediastinal diseases.

Meetings: Every 1st Tuesday of the month at 9 AM EDT/3 PM CEST

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Chair: Dirk Van Raemdonck, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Aim: Supervising the society’s finances and organizing and coordinating fundraising for ITMIG’s statutory activities.

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Chair: Nicolas Girard, Institute Curie, Paris, France

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Aim: Establishment and maintenance of an international database of patients with thymomas, thymic carcinomas and thymic neuroendocrine tumors. Supervise research projects based on the collected data.

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Chair, ITMIG Past-President: Nicolas Girard, Institute Curie, Paris, France

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Aim: Proposing candidates for ITMIG Officer positions.

Members: 

• Paul Van Schil, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
• Conrad Falkson, Queen’s University and CCSEO @ KHSC, Kingston, Canada
• Heather Wakelee, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, USA

Chair: Anja Roden, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

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Aim: Scientific committee for projects on mediastinal diseases other than thymic epithelial tumors.

Meetings: Every 2nd Thursday of the month at 7 AM EDT/1 PM CEST.

All ITMIG members interested in joining the projects are welcome to attend the meetings!

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Chair: Anja Roden, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

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Aim: Scientific committee for projects focused on thymic carcinomas.

Meetings: Every 4th Thursday of the month at 7 AM EDT/1 PM CEST.

All ITMIG members interested in joining the projects are welcome to attend the meetings!

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Chair: Jan von der Thüsen, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Aim: Working group focusing on scientific projects using artificial intelligence solutions for microscopic and radiological diagnosis of thymic tumors.

Meetings: Every 1st Friday of the month at 9 AM EDT/3 PM CEST

All ITMIG members interested in joining the projects are welcome to attend the meetings!

Chair: Thierry Molina, Paris Descartes, CPSC, France

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Aim: This working group will work on the sample collections (blood, serum, tumor) linked to the ITMIG database and their possible availability through a collaborative project. The aim is to constitute a virtual tumor bank that could foster international projects thanks to the ITMIG organization.

Meetings: Every 2nd Thursday of the month at 9 AM EDT/3 PM CEST

All ITMIG members interested in joining the projects are welcome to attend the meetings!

Chair: Wentao Fang, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China, Mediastinum Editor-in-Chief

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Aim: Working group focusing on cooperation between ITMIG and the journal Mediastinum.

Members: 

• Andrea Valeria Arrossi, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
• Pam Bruce, ITMIG Executive Director, New York
• Paolo Mendogni, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
• Malgorzata Szolkowska, The Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland
• Anne Lu, Corresponding Editor, Mediastinum Editorial Office
• Grace S. Li, Managing Editor, AME Publishing Company

Meetings: Every several weeks – dates set according to the needs.

Chair: Annemarie Shepherd, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

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Aim: Multidisciplinary case consultation of patients with thymic epithelial tumors. The case can only be submitted and presented by a physician involved in the patient’s treatment.

Meetings: Every 1st Thursday of the month at 8 AM EST/2 PM CET.

All ITMIG members interested in joining the discussion are welcome to attend the meetings!

All information about how to prepare the case for consultation is available HERE.