Honoring Dr. Rosalie Kane

A Festschrift honoring Dr. John J. Curtis.

O n April 17, 2009, the Division of Nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) hosted a festschrift for a distinguished member, Dr. John J. Curtis. Our goal was to acknowledge Dr. Curtis’s achievements on the occasion of his retirement from the faculty at UAB after 30 yr of service. To anyone even remotely familiar with the study of hypertension and the history of transplant ne...

Rosalie Slaughter Morton—A Woman Surgeon

author offers no evidence to support his own contentions other than "laboratory studies show," "phylobiological investigations show," "my researches and those of my associates show." A really specific account of the therapeutic method to be used, or how the physiological method is to be applied, is found nowhere in the book, nor are any concrete case histories supplied. A much-needed glossary, ...

Honoring Ian McColl Kennedy.

Honoring Aaron Lerner

We are here today to celebrate a unique and distinguished man, Aaron B. Lerner. I have the privilege of opening these festivities by telling you something of Aaron, realizing full well that many of you know more about certain aspects of his life than I do, but relishing, nonetheless, this particular prerequisite of my position as dean. Aaron was born in 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was th...

Honoring our helpers.

This special issue of the Journal of Radiology Case Reports honors the reviewers who donated their time and expertise to the high quality and success of this journal.