Tribute to Lawrence E. Payne

Tribute to Alfred E. Chang.

It has been my distinct honor to co-edit this special issue of the Journal of Surgical Oncology about gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) with Dr. Alfred E. Chang. This issue is dedicated to him in recognition of longstanding contributions to surgical oncology and tumor immunology. Dr. Chang is the Hugh Cabot Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at the Universi...

A tribute to leadership: Lawrence E. Shulman, MD, PhD, and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.

A tribute to George E. Palade.

George E. Palade (1912–2008) received his MD from the School of Medicine of the University of Bucharest, Romania. He was a member of the faculty of that school until 1945, when he came to the United States for postdoctoral studies. Palade joined Albert Claude at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1946 and was appointed assistant professor there in 1948. He progressed to full prof...

Harold E. Kleinert - A tribute to a pioneer

To a student of hand surgery, the mention of the name Kleinert is associated with the advances he helped to make in flexor tendon repair and rehabilitation. It is normal that a surgeon is recognised by the contributions he/she made for the growth of the specialty. With Dr. Kleinert, personally, I think it is different. I think his greatest contribution to hand surgery is the creation of the fel...

A memorial tribute to Anthony E. Cawkell, 1920-2003

On 5 August 2003, our beloved colleague Anthony E. Cawkell passed away from cancer. Tony was a longtime member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Science as well as Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, now the Chartered Institute for Librarians and Information Professionals (CILIP). Before ‘retiring’ to a private consultancy, CITECH Ltd, he had been ISI’...