Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are open to all who are interested.  The cover a general topic area but do not start and stop as specific projects come and go, they are ongoing bodies that examine issues related to their specified topics relevant to the interests of IHTSDO and its members and community.  Each Special Interest Group reports to a specific Standing Committee, as specified below. 

Current SIGs include:

• Anesthesia (Implementation & Innovation Committee) - Chair Andrew Norton 
• Concept Model (Content Committee & Technical Committee) - Co-chairs Stan Huff & Andrew James  
• Education (Implementation & Innovation Committee) - Chair Sarah Ryan 
• IHTSDO Workbench Developer's (Technical Committee) - A Chair will be identified in January 2011. 
• Implementation (Implementation & Innovation Committee) - Co-Chairs Ronald Cornet & Jay Kola 
• International Family Practice/General Practice (Content Committee) - Nick Booth  (previously Primary Care Refset and ICPC Mapping
• International Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Implementation & Innovation Committee) - Chair Alexis B. Carter
• Mapping (Technical Committee) - Chair Jim Campbell, co-chairs Kin Wah Fung & Kathy Giannangelo
• Nursing (Implementation & Innovation Committee) - Chair Anne Casey, co-chair Susan Matney
• Pharmacy (Content Committee) - Co-chairs Emma Melhuish and Julie James 
• Translation (Quality Assurance Committee) - Chair Jane Howarth, co-chair Karin Ahlzén 
  
  

If you would like to participate in any of these groups we would be pleased to have you.  Just email your request to collabnet(at)ihtsdo.org and access to and details of the collaborative work space will be arranged and forwarded to you.

Nursing SIG on the IHTSDO collaborative site (CollabNet)

Anesthesia SIG Report to the Content Committee October 2009

Concept Model SIG report to the I & I Committee October 2009

Education SIG report to the Quality Assurance Committee October 2009

International Family Practice/General Practice SIG report to the Content Committee April 2010

International Pathology & Laboratory Medicine SIG report to the Content Committee April 2010

Implementation SIG report to the I & I Committee April 2010

Mapping SIG report to the Technical Committee April 2010

Nursing SIG Terms of Reference April 2011

Nursing SIG report to the I & I Committee April 2011 

Nursing SIG report to the Content Committee October 2009

Pharmacy SIG report to the Content Committee October 2009

Translation SIG report to the Quality Committee April 2010