Changes in Editors for JVPT.

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It is with regret but also great pleasure that I announce the retirement of Emeritus Professor Jim. E. Riviere from JVPT. Jim has been the North American Editor for JVPT for over 23 years, and for many of those years also served as Editor-in-Chief. During his tenure, he provided guidance, scientific integrity, and professional ethics to the journal and to veterinary pharmacologists worldwide. Jim received his BS (summa cum laude) and MS degrees from Boston College, and his DVM and PhD in pharmacology as well as a DSc (hon) from Purdue University. He then spent the next three decades at North Carolina State University in Raleigh as a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Distinguished Professor in Pharmacology before moving to Kansas State University in Manhattan to find the Institute of Computational Comparative Medicine as the MacDonald Endowed Chair and a Kansas Bioscience Eminent Scholar. Jim joins a list of pre-eminent veterinary pharmacologists who have preceded and/or collaborated with him guiding JVPT to its present day prominence, including Peter Lees, Charlie Short, Quintin McKellar, Desmond Baggot, Art Aronson, and Alex Livingston. Dr. Riviere has made outstanding contributions to veterinary pharmacology over his career, with over 500 scientific papers, 11 books, six US patents, and hundreds of conference presentations. He was an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and served on the National Research Council (NRC) Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Board of Scientific Counsellors of the NIEHS National Toxicology Program, the FDA Science Advisory Board as well as on numerous NIH Study Sections, FDA Committees and journal editorial boards. He also confounded the USDA-supported Food Animal Residue Avoidance and Depletion (FARAD) program. Jim's honors include the 1999 O. Max Gardner Award from the Consolidated University of North Carolina, the 1991 Ebert Prize from the American Pharmaceutical Association, the Harvey W. Wiley Medal and FDA Commissioner's Special Citation, the Lloyd E. Davis Award from AAVPT, and the Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the European and American Association of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Jim was a PI on over 20 million dollars of extramural grants relating to the development of animal models, applying biomathematics to problems in toxicology, including the risk assessment of chemical mixtures, pharmacokinetics, nanomaterials, absorption of drugs and chemicals across skin, and the food safety and pharmacokinetics of tissue residues in food-producing animals. One of Jim's proudest achievements is the large number of graduate students and postdoc fellows he has trained. These trainees have gone on to successful careers in academia, industry, and government. Jim will enjoy a well-earned rest with his wife and fellow toxicologist Emeritus Professor Nancy Monteiro-Riviere, catching up with family and friends, preferably over a glass of wine rather than a cup of conference coffee! I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome Professor Katrina L. Mealey to the role of North American Editor of JVPT. Katrina is the Richard L. Ott Endowed Chair Professor and Director of the Program in Individualized Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University. Katrina is an expert in adverse drug reactions and veterinary pharmacogenetics, establishing the Washington State University Program in Individualized Medicine (PrIMe) to optimize drug therapy for individual patients. Katrina has numerous awards, including Fellowship of the National Academy of Inventors, an Entrepreneurial Faculty Ambassador, and a Life Science Innovations Northwest “Women to Watch” Award. In addition to over a 100 scientific publications, Katrina's MDR1 patent has generated more than $1,000,000 in royalty income and ranks as the second highest income-generating technology at Washington State University. I am looking forward to Katrina's input into JVPT and working with Manfred Kietzmann, European Editor, and Mark Papich, Review Editor.