#acl +All:read Default #format wiki #language en = 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''' || ||~-[[http://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/|IMAG / MSM Consortium]]-~ ||~-[[https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/users/gpeng|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-~ || ||~-[[http://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/imag-events/2014-multiscale-modeling-consortium-meeting|MSM Consortium Meeting 2014]]-~ ||~-[[https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/users/gpeng|Dr. Grace Peng]]-~ ||~-Ahmet Erdemir-~ ||~-Grace is organizer of Multiscale Modeling Consortium Meeting. Number of Participants: 209-~ || ~-October 2, 2014-~ || ~-Ahmet Erdemir-~ || ||~-[[http://ssih.org/|(SSH) Society for Simulation in Healthcare]]-~ ||~-[[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-rice/11/248/2a2|john Rice]]-~ ||~-Lealem Mulugeta-~ ||~-[[http://www.ndia.org/Pages/default.aspx|IMSH]] is an SSH conference. Membership size: 3,000+-~ || ~-October 30, 2014-~ || ~-Lealem Mulugeta-~ || ||~-[[http://biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum.php|Biomch-L Forum]]-~ ||~-[[http://biomch-l.isbweb.org/members/1-superadmin|SuperAdmin]]-~ ||~-Ahmet Erdemir-~ ||~-The Forum is sponsored by the International Society for Biomechanics. Membership size: 16,000+-~ || ~-October 1, 2014-~ || ~-Ahmet Erdemir-~ || ||~-[[https://simtk.org/xml/index.xml|SimTK]]-~ ||~-[[https://simtk.org/users/joyku|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+-~ || || || ||~-[[http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp|Heritage Provider Network Health Prize]]-~ ||~-[[http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/contact|Web Contact Form]]-~ ||~-TBD-~ ||~-Kaggle runs this competition which is over. Membership Size: Unknown-~ || || || ||~-[[http://modsimworldconference.com/|MODSIM]]-~ ||~-[[http://rkarmstrong.com|Bob Armstrong]]-~ ||~-Lealem Mulugeta-~ ||~-MODSIM is affiliated with [[http://www.ndia.org/Pages/default.aspx|NDIA]]-~ || ~-October 30, 2014-~ || ~-Lealem Mulugeta-~ || ||~-[[http://www.ispor.org/|ISPOR]]-~ ||~-[[http://www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth/j-jaime-caro|Jaime Caro]] [[http://www.ispor.org/staff.asp|Danielle Mroz]]-~ ||~-Lealem Mulugeta-~ ||~-Prof. Caro is involved with modeling Task Forces that publish guidelines and Danielle deals with communications-~ || || || ||~-[[https://sites.google.com/site/mounthoodchallenge/|Mount Hood Challenge]]-~ ||~-[[http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/philipc.php|Philip Clarke]]-~ ||~-TBD-~ ||~-Jacob voluntarily maintains the current Mount Hood web site, yet the official organizers are detached-~ || || || ||~-[[http://conference.scipy.org/scipy2013/|SciPy Conference]]-~ ||~-[[http://scopatz.com/|Anthony Scopatz]] [[http://katyhuff.github.io/|Katy Huff]]-~ ||~-Lealem Mulugeta-~ ||~-SciPy has a Bioinformatics track that attracts modelers, Anthony deals with communications and Katy with the program-~ || || || ||~-[[http://www.grand-challenge.org/index.php/All_Challenges|Grand Challenges in Medical Image Analysis]]-~ ||~-[[http://www.diagnijmegen.nl/index.php/Bram_van_Ginneken|Bram van Ginneken ]]-~ ||~-TBD-~ ||~-This is loosely related to modeling and more to image analysis, yet some challenges surely have modeling elements in them-~ || || || ||~-[[http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/|Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE]]-~ ||~-[[http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/about/contact-us|Contact Form and Info]]-~ ||~-Lealem Mulugeta-~ ||~-Registration complete - competition scheduled to complete in 2015-~ || || || ||~-[[http://forbes.house.gov/biography/mscaucus.htm|Congressional Modeling and Simulation Caucus]]-~ ||~-[[http://forbes.house.gov/contact/|Contact Form for Congressman J. Randy Forbes]]-~ ||~-Lealem Mulugeta-~ ||~-[[http://forbes.house.gov/biography/msmembers.htm|Members of the Modeling and Simulation Caucus]]-~ || || || ||~-[[http://www.vph-institute.org/|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 || ||~-[[https://www.asme.org/|American Society of Mechanical Engineers]]-~ ||~-[[http://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=100108782|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. -~ || || || ||~-[[http://storyofdigitalhealth.com/|Digital Health]]-~ ||~-[[http://storyofdigitalhealth.com/about/|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 || ||~-[[http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13395/|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. -~ || || || ||~-[[http://bcr.org|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 || ||~-[[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/|The European Bioinformatics Institute]]-~ || ~-TBD-~ || ~-TBD-~ || || || || ||~-[[http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/|Welcome Trust]]-~ || ~-TBD-~ || ~-TBD-~ || || || || ||~-[[http://www.aegistg.com/|Aegis]]-~ || ~-TBD-~ || ~-TBD-~ || ~-Deals with simulation and modeling not specific to healthcare-~ || || || ||~-[[http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/SystemsEngineering/Pages/Modeling_and_Simulation_Committee.aspx|NDIA Modeling & Simulation Committee ]]-~ || ~-TBD-~ || ~-TBD-~ || ~-MODSIM is affiliated with [[http://www.ndia.org/Pages/default.aspx|NDIA]]-~ || || || ||~-[[http://www.ddmore.eu/|The Drug Disease Model Resources (DDMoRe) consortium ]]-~ || ~-TBD-~ || ~-TBD-~ || ~-DDMoRe has published a paper indicating the need for credible practice guidelines-~ || || || ||~-[[http://www.2020science.net|2020Science consortium]]-~ || ~-Various-~ || ~-Pras Pathmanathan-~ || ~-A consortium composed of multiple departments across Oxford University, University College London and Microsoft Research Cambridge-~ || || || ||~-[[http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_project.php?id=1080|IBM Research]]-~ || ~-J. Jeremy Rice-~ || ~-Pras Pathmanathan-~ || || || || ||~-[[http://www.public.navy.mil/spawar/Pages/default.aspx|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-~ ||