Farewell Statement From Dr. Peter Butler as Outgoing Editor in Chief of Diabetes

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This December 2011 edition of Diabetes marks the completion of the 5-year term of the outgoing editorial team. It has been my honor and pleasure to serve as editor with such a dedicated and accomplished team of associate editors. I thank each of them for their gift of time, their patience, their scholarship, their integrity, and their good humor. We would also like to collectively thank Edwin Gale, the former editor in chief of Diabetologia and Mayer Davidson, former editor in chief of Diabetes Care , who both gave us generous and useful advice as we took on the task of editing Diabetes . We would also like to thank the editorial staff at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the American Diabetes Association office in Indiana, for assisting us in striving to give submitting authors a timely decision, even if not always one they wanted. As Diabetes now moves forward under …