Acknowledgements

President
Vernon T. Tolo, MD

First Vice President
James H. Herndon, MD

Second Vice President
Robert W. Bucholz, MD

Secretary
E. Anthony Rankin, MD

Treasurer
Andrew J. Weiland, MD

Treasurer-Elect (ex officio)
Edward A. Toriello, MD

First Past President
Richard H. Gelberman, MD

Second Past President
S. Terry Canale, MD

Chair, Board of Councilors
Lowry Jones, Jr., MD

Chair-Elect, Board of Councilors
Maureen Finnegan, MD

Secretary, Board of Councilors
Peter J. Mandell, MD

Chair, COMSS
Peter C. Amadio, MD

Chair-Elect, COMSS
David G. Lewallen, MD

Secretary, COMSS
Glenn B. Pfeffer, MD

Members-at-Large
Stephen A. Albanese, MD
Stephen Patrick England, MD, MPH
James N. Weinstein, DO, MS
Gerald R. Williams, Jr.

Chair, Council on Communications
Stuart A. Hirsch, MD

Chair, Council on Academic Affairs
Joseph P. Iannotti, MD, PhD

Chair, Council on Research and Scientific Affairs
Joshua J. Jacobs, MD

Chair, Council on Health Policy and Practice
Alan H. Morris, MD

Chair, Council on Education
Joseph D. Zuckerman, MD

Chair, Public Education and Media Relations Committee
John M. Purvis, MD

Executive Vice President
William W. Tipton, Jr., MD

Deputy Executive Vice President
Lawrence E. Rosenthal, PhD

Executive Editor; Director, Public Education
and Media Relations
Sandra R. Gordon

Editorial Assistant
Addy Kujawa

A. Herbert Alexander, MD

Paul W. Brown, MD

Daniel R. Benson, MD

Peter Carter, MD

Robert D. D'Ambrosia, MD

Paul J. Dougherty, MD

John Greenwood, Chief,
Office of Medical History,
US Army Surgeon General

Norman Grunewald

Jan K. Herman, Historian,
Navy Medical Department,
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

J. William Littler, MD

Walter M.P. McCall

Stephen E. Novak, Head,
Archives and Special Collections, Augustus C. Long
Health Sciences Library,
Columbia University

William R. Loscher, MD

David Seligson, MD

Seymour M. Albert, MD
Chester K. Barta, MD
Jack S. Blaisdell, MD
George M. Boswell, Jr., MD
Frank J. Boutin, Sr., MD
Paul W. Brown, MD
Richard Lee Brown, MD
Robert E. Carroll, MD
Lewis Cozen, MD
William Donaldson, MD
Anthony F. DePalma, MD
William Donaldson, MD
William R. Duncan, MD

Robert W. Florence, MD
Joseph C. Flynn, MD
Samuel H. Fraerman, MD
Zachary B. Friedenberg, MD
Barry Friedman, MD
J. Leonard Goldner, MD
Nathaniel Gould, MD
Robert M. Hall, MD
John T. Hayes, MD
John F. Hume, MD
Haven E. Jones, MD
Patrick G. Laing, MD
Eli M. Lippman, MD

Eugene Loopesko, MD
Arthur Messinger, MD
Paul R. Milligan, MD
O'Neill L. Pollingue, Jr., MD
Moses Rabson, MD
Robert D. Ray, MD
Andrew C. Ruoff, III, MD
Thomas E. Ryan, MD
Marcus J. Stewart, MD
Barbara Bartlett
Simpson, MD
Leon L. Wiltse, MD
Robert M. Yanchus, MD

James P. Ahstrom, Jr., MD
William A. Baird, MD
Robert M. Barnett, Sr., MD
Bradford S. Bennett, MD
Joseph E. Brown, MD
Stanley A. Clark, Jr., MD
John Clasen, MD
Jonathan Cohen, MD
Russell F. Compton, MD
Wiliam A. Craig, MD
Thomas B. Dameron, Jr., MD
Paul M. Davis, Jr., MD
Robert H. Denham, Jr., MD
Thomas L. Duncan, MD
Don Leroy Eyler, MD
Chester F. Fee, MD
Richard L. Fenton, MD
Adrian E. Flatt, MD
Leo A. Green, MD

Worth Miller Gross, MD
Harle B. Grover, MD
Martin R. Haig, MD
T.C. Harper, MD
J. Ted Hartman, MD
Robert S. Hormell, MD
Andrew G. Hudacek, MD
Wiliam E. Hummel, MD
Einer W. Johnson, Jr., MD
Robert J. W. Kinzel, MD
Duane M. Kline, Jr., MD
Harry G. Kroll, MD
J. Harold LaBriola, MD
Howard W. Lagerquist, MD
Robert F. Landstra, MD
Ralph T. Lidge, MD
Stanley W. Lipinski, MD
Irving G. Manning, MD
Newton C. McCollough, MD

H. Clay Messenger, Jr., MD
Robert W. Meyer, MD
Thomas R. Miller, MD
Samuel T. Moore, III, MD
John H. Muehlstein, MD
John M. Naame, MD
David J. Nelson, MD
Wendell J. Newcomb, MD
George E. Omer, Jr., MD
Aaron W. Perlman, MD
W. John Robb, Jr., MD
Carl J. Roncaglione, MD
Stuart Wells Russell, MD
Edward V. Schaffer, MD
Laurence R. Schechter, MD
Thomas F. Scott, MD
Wesley E. Scott, MD
Robert C. Shoemaker, MD
Robert G. Smith, MD

George A. Snook, MD
Robert A. Sobel, MD
Alvin Stander, MD
H. Todd Stradford, MD
Theodore B. Strange, MD
William S. Stryker, MD
Jonathan S. Swift, MD
Robert G. Thompson, MD
John Franklin Tillotson, MD
Jack C. Tippett, MD
S. Fulton Tompkins, MD
Allen O. Tuftee, MD
John C. Williams, MD
Robert T. Willingham, Jr., MD
Loyal K. Wilson, MD
Philip D. Wilson, Jr., MD
Richard C. Wixson, MD
James N. Worcester, Jr. MD
Vincent Zecchino, MD

Director/Executive Producer
David Berez

Writer/Editor
Craig Fisher

Production Manager
Sian Evans

Office Manager
Melissa MacCoole

Photo Editor
Allison Carroll

Copy Editor
Joan Phaup

Production Assistant
Nate Bowman

Designer
Lisa Baker

Art Director
Joe Ryan

Web Master
Benjamin Duffy

Project Manager
Heidi Hunt

Website Design & Production
JaneA Kelley

Quality Assurance
Renée Heal

Flash Programming
Kirk Holbrook