Dear Philippe. Ten years ago, in the fall of 2003, we published the first issue of InFo NEUROLOGIE & PSYCHIATRIE together – you as the editor of Neurology, me as a simple editor who had just started at the publishing house. The InFo NEUROLOGIE & PSYCHIATRIE 1/2003 was the first publication I was allowed to accompany. So in a way, all three of us are celebrating an anniversary.
A lot has happened in the past ten years, both on the part of the publisher and on the medical side, not to mention our personal development: among other things, you are now president of the Swiss Brain Stroke Society, and as editor-in-chief I am allowed to help shape and take responsibility for the publisher’s journals, which always gives me great pleasure thanks to editors like you.
With Prof. Franz Müller-Spahn, who unfortunately passed away much too early, and later with Prof. Erich Seifritz, we held numerous meetings year after year to determine the topics and authors of the individual issues. When there were bottlenecks, you always helped out. But you certainly won’t miss my (dreaded?) “Attention – urgent”-, “Really urgent”- or “But now it’s burning”-mails. But the next tasks are already waiting for you, because a committed and capable neurologist like you does not simply retire as an editor and put his feet up. No, you already have numerous new commitments on the table, so that your feet would have no more room. The establishment of a national network for the comprehensive treatment of stroke patients in stroke units and centers is only the beginning.
Dear Philippe, you will be terribly missed by me, by us! Fortunately, you remain with us as an active member of the editorial board of InFo NEUROLOGIE & PSYCHIATRIE. And who knows, maybe you’ll get a “really urgent” mail from me again – if only for the sake of the good old days.
Cordially, Yours
Séverine Bonini
Editor-in-Chief
InFo Neurology & Psychiatry 2013; 11(6): 3.
