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A Tribute from The Board of Trustees to the Editor, Henry R. Cowell, M.D., Ph.D.

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Dr. Cowell has been Editor since 1985, leading and directing The Journal in its task of providing orthopaedic information and education to academicians and clinicians, general orthopaedists and subspecialists, those in training, and those who received their formal training decades ago. He has presided over an extraordinary era for The Journal. During his tenure, he has maintained and enhanced The Journal's reputation for integrity and for rigorous and honest peer review. While preserving the reputation and look of The Journal, he has made many vital changes, as the worlds of orthopaedics and publishing have changed.

When Dr. Cowell became Editor, the Deputy Editors were full-time staff members of The Journal, based in Boston. In order to broaden the outlook and perspective of our publication, Dr. Cowell added Deputy Editors from around the country (and Canada) who represented many orthopaedic subspecialties. This geographic and subspecialty diversity has had a profound, if often unrecognized, effect on The Journal; it has resulted in a constant flow of new ideas and fresh approaches. Dr. Cowell attracted outstanding leaders of our profession to serve as Deputy Editors and Associate Editors, as a glance at our masthead will demonstrate.

Few, if any, journals put as much time and painstaking effort into the editorial process as The Journal does under Dr. Cowell's guidance. We believe that this is evident in every aspect of our publication, from the selection of the articles, to the clarity and readability of the text, to the quality of the illustrations.

As orthopaedics has become more specialized, our Editor has continued to ensure that The Journal has reflected all areas of our entire specialty. Every issue is likely to demonstrate a wide array of orthopaedic interests, from basic research to clinical applications, as well a variety of anatomical areas from neck to toe.

Dr. Cowell has also brought us into the electronic age, with the efficiency of electronic publishing and the immediacy of a Web site, which now offers the full text of The Journal. Our CD-ROMs are increasingly a vital component of any orthopaedic research, whether formal or informal.

Dr. Cowell's leadership has been marked by stability and change, by tradition and modernization, by a focus on quality and an expansion of interests, by a conservative approach to the editorial process and a dynamic view of the specialty of orthopaedics, and by editorial excellence. Somehow, he made this incredible balancing act look easy. The Board of Trustees of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery congratulates and salutes Dr. Henry R. Cowell for his exceptional and dedicated service to this journal and to the entire orthopaedic community.

With Dr. Cowell's announcement of his upcoming retirement, The Board of Trustees must seek the next Editor of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. The Board recognizes the importance of this position and is announcing a national search. Interested candidates may contact, in confidence, any member of The Board or our search consultant: John H. Moxley, III, M.D., Managing Director, North American Health Care Division, Korn/Ferry International, 1800 Century Park East, Suite 900, Los Angeles, California 90067. Telephone: (310) 552-1834. Fax: (310) 553-6452.

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Paul J. Hirsch, M.D., Chairman

James R. Urbaniak, M.D., Vice-Chairman

Walter B. Greene, M.D., Treasurer

Michael W. Chapman, M.D., Secretary

Bernard F. Morrey, M.D.

Jesse C. DeLee, M.D.

Stuart L. Weinstein, M.D.

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