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APS Bulletin • Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 2006
Editor’s Note
Giving Thanks and Building Success
Steven H. Sanders, PhD
As my tenure as the new editor-in-chief of the APS Bulletin begins, I want to express my thanks and share some thoughts, feelings, and goals. First, I want to again thank Peter Vicente for his stellar work developing and guiding the Bulletin over these many years. He has been instrumental in creating a lasting legacy for us all. He leaves me with a high quality, well respected, and efficiently managed publication we can all be very proud of. I am very excited and honored to take on the task of maintaining, and hopefully advancing, the Bulletin’s image and role as an important communication vehicle for APS. I also want to thank all of the department editors for their continued commitment and hard work to discover, promote, and bring to fruition all of the interesting and quality articles found in the Bulletin. It requires a great deal of sustained effort to maintain such content. Keep up the great work, and I look forward to working with all of you and the entire APS membership in our combined efforts. Without all of you, the Bulletin could not survive. I also wish to thank the APS Board, Publication Committee, and the staff for their continued support of the Bulletin and for allowing me this opportunity. Finally, a heartfelt thanks to the APS membership for their acknowledgment of the Bulletin as a meaningful and worthwhile publication. I will do all in my power to ensure it remains so.
At this point I have several goals for the Bulletin. One obvious goal is to maintain the current quality, content, and focus of the Bulletin. Initially, I plan to do this by maintaining and supporting the current department editors and staff team who work on the Bulletin. I have appointed one new department editor, Steven Stanos, DO, to replace me as the Pain Clinic Perspectives Editor. Steve is the medical director of the interdisciplinary pain center at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He brings a wealth of clinical experience and understanding to the task of shepherding this important section.
My second goal is to promote and expand awareness and usage of the Bulletin within and outside our membership. One possible approach might involve more aggressive use and promotion of online access. It is also extremely important to increase the percentage of members who actively submit manuscripts to the Bulletin. Particularly, those early career level members. Likewise, ongoing development and addition of new sections covering emerging new content areas in the field of pain are also essential. For example, we might consider developing a separate section on gender and ethnic influences in pain. These and other objectives and demands should keep all of us involved with the Bulletin busy and engaged in actively pursuing its continued success.
Let me close by extending an open invitation to everyone to participate in this process. Feel free to e-mail me at ssanders@siskinrehab.org and/or any of the department editors with your suggestions, criticisms, and most importantly manuscripts for us to consider. The best to everyone.