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Dear Members of the American Society of Nephrology:

It gives me extraordinary pleasure to announce the appointment of Dr. William M. Bennett as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Society's new Clinical Journal.

Dr. Bennett has a most distinguished career both as an academician and as a clinical practitioner. He spent most of his academic career at the Oregon Health Sciences University, where he was the Head of the Division of Nephrology for 16 years. He has had a very productive investigative career that addressed a broad range of subjects, with emphasis on nephrotoxicity of drugs, cystic renal disease, renal transplantation and ethical issues that confront the academic and practicing nephrologists, among others. He remained clinically active throughout his tenure at the Oregon Health Sciences University and developed a new community based transplant program thereafter. Dr Bennett is highly respected in the nephrology community and is recognized worldwide for his extraordinary contributions to our discipline.

Dr. Bennett's vision for the journal is closely aligned with that of the Council of the Society. He noted in his application: "My vision for the new journal is to provide a useful, user friendly vehicle for transmitting clinical research of direct interest to clinical nephrologists, translational research with direct implications for patient care and to provide the best source of clinical information for practical use.” To this end, he will solicit original clinical research manuscripts as well as invited reviews on topical subjects of interest to nephrologists to complement the other half of the journal. Dr. Bennett will work closely with the editors of JASN, Dr. William Couser, and NephSAP, Dr. Richard Glassock, in order to provide a full range of complementary publications to Society members. We hope to publish the first issue of the journal in early 2006.

In order to undertake this mission, Dr. Bennett has assembled a distinguished group of Deputy, Associate, International and Liaison Editors to assist him. These individuals are listed below:


Editor: William Bennett, MD

Deputy Editor: Mohamed Sayegh, MD

Associate Editors:

Topic Name

Epidemiology/Clinical Trials

Gary Curhan, MD, ScD

Acute Renal Failure

Paul Palevsky, MD

Transplant

Bruce Kaplan, MD

Hereditary/Genetics/Peds

Lisa Guay-Woodford, MD

GN/Interstitial Nephritis

Gerry Appel, MD

ESRD/Dialysis

Patrick Pafrey, MD

Chronic Kidney Disease

Giuseppe Remuzzi, MD, FRCP

Mineral Metabolism

Tilman Drueke, MD

Diabetes

Sharon Adler, MD

Hypertension

Friedrich Luft, MD

International Editors:

Europe

Giuseppe Remuzzi, MD, FRCP

Central/South America

Emmanuel Burdmann, MD

Australasian

Gavin Becker, MD

Liaison Editors:

Topic Name

Pathology

Charles Alpers, MD

Education

Robert Narins, MD

We are all confident that this group, under Dr. Bennett's leadership will promptly make of our clinical journal the flagship of clinical publications in nephrology and provide our membership with yet another source of timely, practical, high quality educational information.

Sincerely yours,

Tomas Berl, MD
President, ASN