The Editors-in-Chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia Over 100 Years: Creating the Voice of the Global Anesthesiology Community

Abstract

The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the longest-running anesthesiology publication in the world. Founded in 1922 as Current Researches in Anesthesia & Analgesia by the visionary and charismatic Francis McMechan, MD, the journal served as a reliable mirror for the key scientific and political issues facing the nascent specialty of anesthesiology. Under the leadership of 6 subsequent Editors-in-Chief over the ensuing century-Howard

Adlocutio cohortium: Introduction of a New Editor-in-Chief

“…I confess my emotions are mixed: deep honor at being entrusted to this task by the Board of Trustees of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), balanced by normal apprehensions of taking on such an important leadership role, coupled with the anxiety of maintaining the high standards of excellence set by my predecessor, Dr Jean-Francois Pittet, whose warm welcome and guidance has been invaluable in the transition period, and before that Dr Steve Shafer, who worked tirelessly on behalf of the journal. 1 Nevertheless being selected to lead the world's oldest and in my view (of course!) most prestigious anesthesia journal is an enormous privilege that I will always find difficult to articulate.…”