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ITMIG Committees and Working Groups
ITMIG Committees
- STEERING COMMITTEE
Chair: Anja Roden, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA
Contact: CLICK HERE
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)
- EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Chair: Vincent Fang, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China
Contact: CLICK HERE
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!
- COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE
Chair: Chul Kim, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USAContact: CLICK HERE
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!
- MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Chair: Paolo Mendogni, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
Contact: CLICK HERE
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
VIEW THE 2023 REPORT – CLICK HERE
- FINANCE COMMITTEE
Chair: Dirk Van Raemdonck, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Contact: CLICK HERE
Aim: Supervising the society’s finances and organizing and coordinating fundraising for ITMIG’s statutory activities.
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- DATABASE COMMITTEE
Chair: Nicolas Girard, Institute Curie, Paris, France
Contact: CLICK HERE
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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VIEW THE 2023 REPORT – CLICK HERE
- NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Chair, ITMIG Past-President: Nicolas Girard, Institute Curie, Paris, France
Contact: CLICK HERE
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
ITMIG Working Groups
- MEDIASTINAL WORKING GROUP
Chair: Anja Roden, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
Contact: CLICK HERE
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!
VIEW THE 2023 REPORT – CLICK HERE
- THYMIC CARCINOMA WORKING GROUP
Chair: Anja Roden, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
Contact: CLICK HERE
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!
VIEW THE 2023 REPORT – CLICK HERE
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORKING GROUP
Chair: Jan von der Thüsen, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Contact: CLICK HERE
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!
- BIOLOGY WORKING GROUP
Chair: Thierry Molina, Paris Descartes, CPSC, FranceContact: CLICK HERE
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: The schedule of meetings will be announced soon
All ITMIG members interested in joining the projects are welcome to attend the meetings!
ITMIG Tumor Board
- TUMOR BOARD
Chair: Annemarie Shepherd, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Contact: CLICK HERE
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.