Committee Procedures

Organizational Structure

• Steering Committee is established by RSNA
  • Responsible for managing the strategic direction, processes and inftrastructure for QIBA and overall oversight of the QIBA activities and committees.
• Modality Committees are established by the Steering Committee
  • Responsible for coordinating modality areas of QIBA, and to formalize (i.e., vote, on) decisions when needed.
• Technical Committees are established by the Modality Committee
  • Responsible for selecting biomarkers, drafting Profiles and protocols, and coordinating groundwork.
  • Groundwork Committees are established by the Technical Committee as needed to carry out specific groundwork projects.
  • Authoring Groups are established by a Technical Committee as needed to write Profiles and/or protocols.

Committee Membership

• Steering committee members are appointed by the secretariat
• Modality?, Technical, Groundwork and Authoring Committees are "open" committees
  • "Open" committees are open to anyone with a relevant interest.
  • The Committee Secretary or Cochair can add your name to the roster
  • Groundwork groups and Authoring committees are typically volunteer subsets of their parent Technical committee
• Rosters for each committee are posted on the Wiki

Decision Making

• Goal: group consensus
• Recorded vote required for procedural votes (e.g. approve for
  • negative votes must be discussed
  • ultimately 2/3 majority passes
• Recorded vote required for resolution of log-jams
  • simple majority passes
• For recorded votes:
  • Meeting Attendees names recorded in minutes, vote outcome recorded

Note: Committees that do not formally vote on anything (e.g. most groundwork and authoring groups) may not need to expend effort on quorum tracking

Quorum

• All members on the Roster who have attended one or more of the last three meetings count toward quorum

See Also

• QIBA Committees