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.

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

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

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