2007 Network Retreat

The Fourth Annual Team 1 Retreat was held June 28-30, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, Newport Beach, CA. The primary aim of this meeting is to bring together basic scientists and clinicians from academics and industry to accelerate development and standardization of new methods for breast cancer detection. Attendees represent an international mix of academia, government agencies and industry.

There were 100 attendees at the 2007 year retreat from 8 states and 3 countries. Of the attendees, 33 were students, 10 were from industry and one represented the National Cancer Institute. Attendees represented 14 academic and non-profit centers including: University of Pennsylvania, Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital, Dartmouth College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Irvine, National Cancer Institute, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Hokkaido University, University of California Los Angeles- Olive View Medical Center, University Health Network/Ontario Cancer Institute, University of Southern California, SRI International, University of Wisconsin, and Siemens Corporate Research. Ten companies were represented including; Siemens Medical Business Development, Hamamatsu Corporation, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Philips Medical Systems, The Netherlands, Spectros Corporation, Advanced Research Technologies ART, Inc, TechEn, Inc., Praevium, Modulated Imaging, and PETRA.

The meeting began Thursday evening with a reception. After dinner and opening remarks, associate members Nick Mackinnon, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, and Christian Shultz, Siemens Medical Solutions, USA, Inc. presented talks. Friday's 19 scientific talks were divided into three topics: Standardization, Visualization and Data Analysis, Instrumentation, and Clinical Translation. Friday the Industry Working Group met during lunch, and the Executive Committee met in the evening. On Saturday morning, the Phantom Working Group, met to outline priorities for the coming year. Each day left time for valuable interaction and a poster session with 22 posters presented.