Committee Procedures
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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