Committee External Contact List

This page will contain links to external organizations and entities that deal with topics that overlap the committee interests.

Organization	Point of Contact in Organization	Committee Member in Contact	Comments	Survey Invitation Sent on	Survey Invitation Sent by
IMAG / MSM Consortium	Dr. Grace Peng	Lealem Mulugeta	Grace is the Director of IMAG/MSM and a member of the Committee's Advisory Council. Membership Size of IMAG/MSM: Unknown	October 1, 2014	Ahmet Erdemir
MSM Consortium Meeting 2014	Dr. Grace Peng	Ahmet Erdemir	Grace is organizer of Multiscale Modeling Consortium Meeting. Number of Participants: 209	October 2, 2014	Ahmet Erdemir
(SSH) Society for Simulation in Healthcare	john Rice	Lealem Mulugeta	IMSH is an SSH conference. Membership size: 3,000+	October 30, 2014	Lealem Mulugeta
Biomch-L Forum	SuperAdmin	Ahmet Erdemir	The Forum is sponsored by the International Society for Biomechanics. Membership size: 16,000+	October 1, 2014	Ahmet Erdemir
SimTK	Joy Ku	Joy Ku	Joy is a member of the committee, and Director of Simbios (http://simbios.stanford.edu), the NIH Center for Physics-Based Simulations of Biological Structures, which also supports SimTK. Membership of SimTK: 10,000+
Heritage Provider Network Health Prize	Web Contact Form	TBD	Kaggle runs this competition which is over. Membership Size: Unknown
MODSIM	Bob Armstrong	Lealem Mulugeta	MODSIM is affiliated with NDIA	October 30, 2014	Lealem Mulugeta
ISPOR	Jaime Caro Danielle Mroz	Lealem Mulugeta	Prof. Caro is involved with modeling Task Forces that publish guidelines and Danielle deals with communications
Mount Hood Challenge	Philip Clarke	TBD	Jacob voluntarily maintains the current Mount Hood web site, yet the official organizers are detached
SciPy Conference	Anthony Scopatz Katy Huff	Lealem Mulugeta	SciPy has a Bioinformatics track that attracts modelers, Anthony deals with communications and Katy with the program
Grand Challenges in Medical Image Analysis	Bram van Ginneken	TBD	This is loosely related to modeling and more to image analysis, yet some challenges surely have modeling elements in them
Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE	Contact Form and Info	Lealem Mulugeta	Registration complete - competition scheduled to complete in 2015
Congressional Modeling and Simulation Caucus	Contact Form for Congressman J. Randy Forbes	Lealem Mulugeta	Members of the Modeling and Simulation Caucus
Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Institute	Marco Viceconti, Executive Director	Ahmet Erdemir	VPH Institute is a European based, international organization with mission is to ensure that the Virtual Physiological Human is fully realized, universally adopted, and effectively used both in research and clinic.	October 2, 2014 (contacted Marco Viceconti for further dissemination); October 3, 2014 (distributed to VPH membership list by Martina Contin)	Ahmet Erdemir
American Society of Mechanical Engineers	Ryan Crane and Carl Popelar	Tina Morrison, Lealem Mulugeta, Jeff Bischoff	ASME is involved with verification & validation standards for computational fluid and solid mechanics as well as medical devices. Jeff is a member of the Advisory Council, Tina is Committee Member and Lealem is the Co-chair of the Committee. They are all very active players in ASME's V&V40 Subcommittee on Standard for Verification and Validation in Computational Methods for Medical Devices.
Digital Health	Paul Sonnier	Lealem Mulugeta	The Digital Health group is the nexus of the global digital health ecosystem and serves to advance knowledge and build relationships between people interested in the convergence of the digital and genetics revolutions with health and healthcare. Membership: 20,000+	Declined Participation	Lealem Mulugeta
National Academy of Sciences, VVUQ in Regulation	Neal Glassman	Tina Morrison	The National Academy of Sciences created a committee to discuss the role of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Models and Simulations that are used in Regulation. Members include scientists from the EPA, NAS, NRC, FDA, DOD, ... government bodies. Not sure how large the membership is but there are 40+ people on the committee.
Biomedical Computation Review Magazine	Joy Ku	Joy Ku	We can add a short announcement in the print version of the magazine (next issue comes out in early March) and post an announcement on the magazine website (this can be done any time). Print version reaches about 3800 individuals.
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology members	Grace Peng	Lealem Mulugeta		October 7, 2014 - shared during the EMBS TC meeting	Lealem Mulugeta
Subscribers of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
International Society for Computational Biology	Joy Ku	Joy Ku	Can post news item on their website	October 10, 2014 - news posting submitted, waiting for approval	Joy Ku
Computational Chemistry mailing list	Joy Ku	Joy Ku		October 10, 2014 - submitted invitation, waiting for approval	Joy Ku
The European Bioinformatics Institute	TBD	TBD
Welcome Trust	TBD	TBD
Aegis	TBD	TBD	Deals with simulation and modeling not specific to healthcare
NDIA Modeling & Simulation Committee	TBD	TBD	MODSIM is affiliated with NDIA
The Drug Disease Model Resources (DDMoRe) consortium	TBD	TBD	DDMoRe has published a paper indicating the need for credible practice guidelines
2020Science consortium	Various	Pras Pathmanathan	A consortium composed of multiple departments across Oxford University, University College London and Microsoft Research Cambridge
IBM Research	J. Jeremy Rice	Pras Pathmanathan
SPAWAR	TBD	TBD	Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
NASA M&S Community	N/A	Lealem Mulugeta		October 5, 2014	Lealem Mulugeta
Simbios	Joy Ku	Joy Ku		October 10, 2014 - invitation sent to mailing list	Joy Ku