2009 Presidential Address: Mentoring ... Touching the Future

2009 Presidential Address: Mentoring … Touching the Future

Mentoring may be the most important thing we do on a daily basis. It produces some of our greatest experiments and successes, our mentees themselves. Ironically, although we are fond of publishing data from diabetes research, we never publish the results of our mentoring in contemporary literature. We must turn to oral and written history to even define the word “mentoring.” What exactly is it?...

Presidential Address One View of the Future

I would firstly like to acknowledge the many members, presenters, organisers and executive members who have given there time and valuable input over the last 75 years making the NZ Grasslands Association the organisation it is today. The 68 proceedings are an invaluable record of NZ’s post 1920s pastoral history and developments. It provides a scientific record with all its insights but also a ...

ASCI Presidential Address: Mentoring and teaching clinical investigation.

It is my great privilege and pleasure to address the ninety-sixth annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. I will begin with many thanks: to the council members who provide sage advice and a critical eye; to our staff, who provide dedicated direction and a keen sense of corporate memory; to the members of the ASCI in 2001, who felt it appropriate that I serve on the AS...

Presidential Address: the Endocrine Society--its Activities and Its Future.

I IS A PLEASURE to call to order the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society and to welcome all of you to participate in its program and discussions. I appreciate deeply the great honor which you have bestowed in selecting me as the forty-second president of your society. For any accomplishments which may have occurred during my tenure, I am indebted to the fine organization turned ...

Presidential address: surgical oncology-Expectations for the Future.