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A welcome and a farewell
Editorial
Editorial A Welcome and a Farewell
his issue of Pain Forum has been assembled with the excellent assistance of Ms. Elizabeth Sullivan, our new Editorial Assistant. Ms. Sullivan has a liberal arts degree (B.GS) from the University of Michigan and comes to us with a strong background in the management of human resources and complex organizations (the Michigan Municipal League). She has served as a research associate on various projects in psychology and the social sciences at the University of Michigan and therefore has firsthand experience with the demands of original scholarship. Those of you communicating with the Pain Forum office will find that Ms. Sullivan attends to your requests and concerns in a professional and courteous manner. Her intelligence, self-confidence, enthusiasm, common sense, and, high on my list of essential qualities, sense of humor will sustain her during times when she must gently, but firmly, nag at the typically overcomitted professionals who contribute to Pain Forum. We are most fortunate to have her on board. Ms. Sullivan will occupy the position held previously by Ms. Cassie Mann. As Ms. Mann's family has reached the stage of maturity that permits a more complete development of her own career, she has decided to seek a position that will occupy her energies more fully and, perhaps, take better advantage of her considerable talents. On behalf of our readership and the Editorial Board, I wish her the very best in her new ventures. Note that I did notsay that Ms. Mann will be replaced;
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that is not possible. In selecting Cassie for this position, I was looking for the same personal qualities that I perceive in Elizabeth, and I found them in abundance. Cassie started as Editorial Assistant when Pain Forum (then the APS Joumet; was nothing more than an idea with a budget. She established the many office procedures that have now proved so effective and essential in keeping the journal, and its editor, on track and on time. She lived through, and tolerated with grace, my several clumsy attempts at micromanagement, showing me how improtant it is to let people with good judgment develop their own styles of working and communicating. For example, she let me know, with gentle and effective good humor, that it was not necessary to run the Pain Forum office with a computer program intended for constructing the World Trade Center! I may have made some errors of judgment as Editor of Pain Forum, but choosing Cassie Mann as the Editorial Assistant for our maiden voyage was certainly not one of them. And our readers and contributors and the Editorial Board can be assured that, with the highly capable assistance of Elizabeth Sullivan, Pain Forum will stay its course as a premier journal in the field of pain. Ken Casey Editor-in-Chief Ann Arbor, MI September 1997
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Editorial A Welcome and a Farewell
his issue of Pain Forum has been assembled with the excellent assistance of Ms. Elizabeth Sullivan, our new Editorial Assistant. Ms. Sullivan has a liberal arts degree (B.GS) from the University of Michigan and comes to us with a strong background in the management of human resources and complex organizations (the Michigan Municipal League). She has served as a research associate on various projects in psychology and the social sciences at the University of Michigan and therefore has firsthand experience with the demands of original scholarship. Those of you communicating with the Pain Forum office will find that Ms. Sullivan attends to your requests and concerns in a professional and courteous manner. Her intelligence, self-confidence, enthusiasm, common sense, and, high on my list of essential qualities, sense of humor will sustain her during times when she must gently, but firmly, nag at the typically overcomitted professionals who contribute to Pain Forum. We are most fortunate to have her on board. Ms. Sullivan will occupy the position held previously by Ms. Cassie Mann. As Ms. Mann's family has reached the stage of maturity that permits a more complete development of her own career, she has decided to seek a position that will occupy her energies more fully and, perhaps, take better advantage of her considerable talents. On behalf of our readership and the Editorial Board, I wish her the very best in her new ventures. Note that I did notsay that Ms. Mann will be replaced;
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Pain Forum 6(3): 157, 1997
that is not possible. In selecting Cassie for this position, I was looking for the same personal qualities that I perceive in Elizabeth, and I found them in abundance. Cassie started as Editorial Assistant when Pain Forum (then the APS Joumet; was nothing more than an idea with a budget. She established the many office procedures that have now proved so effective and essential in keeping the journal, and its editor, on track and on time. She lived through, and tolerated with grace, my several clumsy attempts at micromanagement, showing me how improtant it is to let people with good judgment develop their own styles of working and communicating. For example, she let me know, with gentle and effective good humor, that it was not necessary to run the Pain Forum office with a computer program intended for constructing the World Trade Center! I may have made some errors of judgment as Editor of Pain Forum, but choosing Cassie Mann as the Editorial Assistant for our maiden voyage was certainly not one of them. And our readers and contributors and the Editorial Board can be assured that, with the highly capable assistance of Elizabeth Sullivan, Pain Forum will stay its course as a premier journal in the field of pain. Ken Casey Editor-in-Chief Ann Arbor, MI September 1997
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