A Farewell

With this issue, I conclude twelve rewarding years as editor of Applied Radiology. My successor is Dr. Stuart E. Mirvis, Director of Emergency Radiology at the University of Maryland. Dr. Mirvis is an outstanding, broadly based radiologist who will certainly lead the journal to new accomplishments.

My tenure as editor has given me great satisfaction in leading it to become one of the best-read radiologic journals in our country. It has also provided me a bully pulpit in which I could formulate and express some of my own philosophic concepts in the form of editorials.

I am most grateful to our publisher, Oliver Anderson, for choosing me for this task and for his support and encouragement throughout my editorship. I must also express my appreciation to the members of my editorial board who have helped immeasurably in formulating editorial content. Thanks is also due to our readers who have, by their support, made this a worthwhile undertaking.

For myself, I look forward to new endeavors, but in the words of William Shakespeare, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”