Presidential address: the modern vascular specialist—surgeon, clinician, and interventionist

Presidential address: time for the future of vascular surgery.

Presidential address: The Endocrine Society.

IN the course of a career most of us have multiple opportunities to contribute something to the Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society. Usually these opportunities take the form of ten-minute papers concerning some recent discovery. At this moment I wish I could tell you about the discovery of a new steroid associated with high blood pressure, or the discovery of a new peptide hormone, or the ...

The Knowledge Level (Presidential Address)

This is the first presidential address of AAAI, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. In the grand scheme of history, even the history of artificial intelligence (AI), this is surely a minor event. The field this scientific society represents has been thriving for quite some time. No doubt the society itself will make solid contributions to the health of our field But it is too ...

Presidential address: The Endocrine Society.

D OCTOR ROSS, MEMBERS AND GUESTS: Thank you for this splendid plaque and for your overgenerous words. They are among the few, evanescent, albeit cherished, rewards of the Presidency of our Society. In sharp contrast, the punishment for succumbing to the lure of this high office is implacable, demonic, and so severe that it cannot be borne alone: the Presidential address. This year, I have attem...

Presidential address: the Endocrine Society.

Last July when I assumed office I fully expected that my term as president of the Endocrine Society would be tranquil. Those serious internal problems of the Society that existed a few years ago had been effectively dealt with by my two predecessors, Dr. Liddle—and before him—Dr. Engel, and I was confident that there was so little that the president would be required to do during the year, that...