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The Importance of Clinical Trials

E. Patchen Dellinger, MD

Arch Surg. 1998;133:1192-1197.

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IT IS A SPECIAL honor and pleasure to be with you here today as the 18th president of the Surgical Infection Society (SIS). This meeting is the 18th that I have attended since the founding of the society in 1980, and I am deeply grateful to the membership for this opportunity. My interests in surgical infection were sparked by the inevitable series of surgical infections that every surgical resident witnesses in the early stages of training, and particularly by the inspirational example of 2 of our early leaders, William Altemeier and John Burke, whose works I eagerly read and whom I had the good fortune to meet during this time. The history of the founding of this society and the pivotal role that William Altemeier played in that process have been discussed in several presidential addresses, most completely by Wesley Alexander in 1986. More recently, Ori . . . [Full Text of this Article]