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Dear ANA members: Greetings to you all and warm wishes for the new year! We know that many of our members who are in academic centers are facing numerous challenges, given the recent surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, but we are continuing to provide you with educational items through webinars, and we are working hard to continue our year-round professional development activities. Educational Opportunities You can visit OnDEC to view recordings from the joint NINDS-ANA webinar series “Creating a successful research program: Combining great mentorship with compelling science and building a diverse and inclusive research environment.” You can claim CME credits for viewing this series, as well as for viewing any of the over 100 hours of other on-demand content available for members. Another opportunity available to you online is the upcoming episode of the ANA Investigates podcast; Dr. Adeline Goss will be interviewing Drs. Romer Geocadin and Claude Hemphill on Curing Coma. In addition, the Statistical Snapshots series, brought to you by Drs. Michelle Johansen and Rohit Das, will be available soon. Some of the topics covered will include Adaptive Design and Bayesian Statistics; Biases Confounders and Mediators; and Odds Ratios. Exciting Editorial Developments We have some exciting publication news to share. Dr. Ken Tyler started as of January 1 as the editor-in-chief at the Annals of Neurology with an outstanding slate of associate and assistant editors. Please view the full list and congratulate our colleagues from across the country and representing many diverse academic domains. “I’m absolutely thrilled to become the seventh editor-in-chief (EIC) of Annals and have assembled a tremendous team of editors to help me along,” Tyler said. “Please send us your best stuff so we can keep Annals the ‘jewel in the crown’ of the ANA, CNS and neurological journals, as past EICs Drs. Plum, Asbury, Fishman, Johnson, Hauser and Saper would expect no less of the trust they have passed on.” We are excited to partner with Dr. Tyler to align the ANA mission with the content of the Annals of Neurology. I would also like to alert you to an important opportunity that is now available, which is the open position for the next editor-in-chief for the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. Dr. Jack Kessler, after eight years, will be stepping down in December, and we will welcome a new editor and editorial team in January 2023. If you are interested, please submit your application by February 7, 2022. Further Participation with ANA If you wish, a number of our board members are available this February and March to make presentations to your department to summarize offerings of the ANA to your faculty and residents. Please contact Deputy Executive Director Kelly Ventura (kventura@myana.org) if you’d like for us to either send you an informational PowerPoint or have one of our board members come and present at your virtual faculty or department meetings. Finally, it’s never too early to remind you of our next Annual Meeting, which will take place in Chicago October 22–25, 2022. Please save the date, and note that we will begin accepting abstract submissions on February 17. The deadline to submit is April 19. We hope you will be able to submit and attend!
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Frances E. Jensen, MD, FANA, FACP Arthur Knight Asbury, MD Professor of Neurology Chair of the Department of Neurology Co-Director Penn Medicine Translational Neuroscience Center Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |