Editorial introductions

Abstract

Current Opinion in Hematology was launched in 1994. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of hematology is divided into nine sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Editor and the Section Editor for this issue. EDITOR Thomas P. StosselThomas P. StosselThomas P. Stossel graduated from Princeton University, USA, (Summa Cum Laude) and Harvard Medical School, USA, (Cum Laude) and trained in internal medicine, hematology and research at Boston's Massachusetts General and Children's Hospitals, USA, and at the National Institutes of Health. He served as Head of Hematology-Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, of Experimental Medicine and Hematology at Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA, President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and of the American Society of Hematology, and as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. He is currently Senior Physician in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Hematology Division. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Hematology and on the editorial advisory board of CollabRx. For research on mechanisms of how cells move about the body he was elected to The National Academy of Sciences, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and The Institute of Medicine and received honorary degrees from Linköping University, Sweden, and the University of Geneva, Switzerland, an NIH MERIT award, and the Dameshek and Thomas Awards of the American Society of Hematology. He has authored around 300 publications and two textbooks and is an inventor on 15 issued patents. He was a scientific advisor to Biogen and Dyax Corporations and currently is a Director of Velico Corporation and Founding Scientist of BioAegis Therapeutics, companies undertaking clinical development of his discoveries concerning blood transfusion and inflammation control respectively. For his policy work concerning the medicine-industry interface, he received the Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians’ Sherwood and American Medical Writers Association's McGovern Awards. With his wife, Kerry Maguire, DDS, MSPH and others, Stossel co-founded a 5013c charity, Options for Children in Zambia that provides voluntary dental and medical care in that Sub-Saharan African country. For this effort he received the 2012 Humanitarian Award of the Brigham & Women's Hospital Hippocrates Society. SECTION EDITOR David C. DaleDavid C. DaleDr David C. Dale, Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, USA, is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, and a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, USA. He trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, USA, and the University of Washington Medical Center, USA, and received research training at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA. His research interests are in inflammation, neutrophils, and the clinical problem of neutropenia, interests which link the specialties of hematology, oncology and infectious diseases. Dr Dale is actively involved in teaching, research and patient care at the University of Washington, where he served as Dean of the School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, American Clinical and Climatological Association, American Society of Hematology, Infectious Disease Society of America, and the American Society for Clinical Oncology. He has served as President of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and Chair of the Board of Governors and as member of the Board of Regents of ACP, President of the Society of General Internal Medicine, President of the Western Association of Physicians, President of the Medical Honor Society-Alpha Omega Alpha, and is currently President-elect of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the medical textbook Scientific American Medicine and serves on the National Board of Sponsors for Physicians for Social Responsibility, and is Co-Director of the Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry.