Letters Rediscovering the roots of our work

Remembering Our Roots

Revisiting our roots.

Let me begin by thanking you for this opportunity to reflect upon the development of the Association for Academic Surgery. Looking back over my career and the various initiatives that I have had the good fortune to be associated with, I must say that I feel a particular sense of pride and satisfaction related to my involvement with this organization. I am deeply grateful to you for your invitat...

Back To Our Roots

IFLA is, as those of us involved in its organization for 52 weeks a year know only two well, is much more than a conference. Nevertheless it is our flagship event. This year the 68th IFLA conference was held in Glasgow, in order to celebrate, in the land of its birth, its 75th anniversary. Everyone concerned with the planning of this conference was determined that it would be a memorable occasi...

The historical roots of our ecologic crisis.

A conversation with Aldous Huxley not infrequently put one at the receiving end of an unforgettable monologue. About a year before his lamented death he was discoursing on a favorite topic: Man's unnatural treatment of nature and its sad results. To illustrate his point he told how, during the previous summer, he had returned to a little valley in England where he had spent many happy months as...

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...