[BIC-announce] FW: Important Message from the MEG Research Committee

[Belinda Preziosi, Ms.]

Dear all,
 As the chair of the MEG Research committee, I would like to inform you regarding some new regulations in the organization of this committee.
The MEG Research Committee will now meet the FIRST Monday of each month.
Our next meeting will be on Nov 4th and therefore submission should be submitted 10 working days before, i.e.  Oct 21st.
Exceptionally for this first time, we will allow submission until Oct 23rd.

The documents should be prepared in one single pdf file and sent to  megrc at bic.mni.mcgill.ca<mailto:megrc at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>

Please see below, the information that will be updated on our website very soon

We are looking forward to see and review your submissions

Cordially

Christophe Grova
MEG Research Committee Chair
Biomedical Engineering Dpt
Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt
McGill University


Magnetoencephalography Research Committee
MANDATE

The mandate of the Magnetoencephalography (MEG)<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Facilities/MEG> Research Committee (MEGRC) is to :
1.     Review all MEG-related research proposals for scientific validity, safety, and relevance to the neuroscientific mission of the MNI. Approval from the MEGRC is required by the MNI Research Ethics Committee for all proposals involving MEG.
2.     Advise the MEG Director of Research on practical aspects of the MEG research operation: e.g., equipment, time scheduling, access procedures, defining qualified users, etc.
Members of the MEG Research Committee
Christophe Grova

                Committee Chair
            McGill, Biomedical Engineering
                Neurology and Neurosurgery

Sylvain Baillet<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/PeopleFaculty/BailletSylvain>

Committee Vice-Chair
McGill, Neurology and Neurosurgery
Director, MEG Research


Mathieu Brodeur<http://www.douglas.qc.ca/researcher/mathieu-brodeur>

Psychiatry, Douglas Institute

Jean Gotman<http://apps.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/>

McGill, Neurology and Neurosurgery

Eliane Kobayashi<http://apps.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/eliane.html>

McGill, Neurology and Neurosurgery

Jean-Marc Lina

Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Electrical Engineering

Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo<http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/physio/martinez-trujillolab/default.htm>

McGill, Department of Physiology

Michael Petrides<http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/faculty/petrides.html>

McGill, Neurology and Neurosurgery


Pedro Rosa-Neto<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/PeopleAffiliates/RosaNetoPedro>

McGill, Neurology and Neurosurgery

Amir Shmuel<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/neuro_team/mbic/amir_shmuel/>

McGill, Neurology and Neurosurgery

Robert Zatorre<http://www.zlab.mcgill.ca/home.html>

McGill, Neurology and Neurosurgery

MEG Research Scanning Policies

Detailed information regarding MEG access, scanning and billing policies for research are detailed in a separate document accessible here: http://mni-bic.mcgill.ca/

Meetings of the MEG Research Committee

The MEG Research Committee meets on a monthly basis, the FIRST MONDAY of each month. Investigators wishing to submit protocols to the committee should prepare a single pdf file of the documents in the correct order (protocol, consent form, declaration of consent, public advertisement, MRI questionnaire if needed) and send the file to megrc at bic.mni.mcgill.ca<mailto:megrc at bic.mni.mcgill.ca> 10 working days prior to the date of the meeting (i.e. on Monday 2 weeks before the committee meeting).

The MEGRC will review protocols in the same format as required by an APPLICATION FOR INITIAL REVIEW FOR SUBMISSION to the Research Ethics Board (REB). The forms for submission to the MNI REB are available on the REB web page<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/staff/research_services/reb/>. Any forms appropriate to other Ethics Committees (McGill IRB, Douglas IRB, etc.) will be accepted for review.

  *   Please do not change the date that appears in the bottom right-hand corner of the form. All questions on the form must be answered.
  *   It is imperative that an investigator from the MNI/H is associated with the proposed study, particularly for studies originating from outside the MNI/H. However, it is not required that this individual is the Principal Investigator.
  *   Each submission must contain an English and a French version of a CONSENT FORM, a DECLARATION OF CONSENT (forms available on the REB web page<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/staff/research_services/reb/>) and - if the MEG data analysis requires the individual anatomical scan of subjects -- an MRI QUESTIONNAIRE<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/staff/research_services/res_committee/>.
  *   Please note that all multi-modality protocols involving MRI and/or PET must be submitted in parallel to the respective Research Committees, since this committee will state only the MEG party of the proposals.

At the top of each page of the consent form, please include the title of the protocol and the site at which the study will be performed. Also indicate at the bottom right-hand corner of each page, the version date of the consent form, i.e. the date when the form was prepared. Note that projects with standard anatomical MR scans of participants are not required to obtain approval from the MNI's MRI Research Committee.

Following the meeting of the MEG Research Committee, the Principal Investigator will receive a letter with the Committee's decision and any recommendations, should changes be required. The investigator can then proceed to seek for approval by the appropriate Research Ethics Board (MNI's or from his/her home institution): include the review letter from the MEG Research Committee.

Useful Links

MEG Research Facility at the MNI; includes generic descriptions of the MEG facility and basic scanning procedures.<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Facilities/MEG>

MEG Research Scanning Policies<http://mni-bic.mcgill.ca/>

MNI's Research Ethics Board<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/staff/research_services/reb/>

A non-technical introduction to MEG<http://www.canada-meg-consortium.org/EN/MegIntro>

The Canada MEG Consortium initiative<http://www.canada-meg-consortium.org/>



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Christophe Grova, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Dpt
Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt

Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm)
Montreal Neurological Institute
Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques

Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304
McGill University
3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
H3A 2B4
email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca<mailto:christophe.grova at mcgill.ca>
tel : (514) 398 2516
fax : (514) 398 7461

Web:
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe
http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/
MultiFunkIm Lab:
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage

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