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Arch Surg. 2005;140:16.

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I cannot express how excited I am to become the new Editor of the Archives of Surgery in 2005. I was very surprised to be considered for the position by Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, the current Editor in Chief of Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications for JAMA and the Archives Journals, and even more surprised to be awarded the position. To succeed Claude H. Organ, Jr, MD, after his 17 years of service is also quite humbling. He has always been one of my heroes.

Figure appears in full text version. Julie Ann Freischlag, MD

When one reads the Archives of Surgery, one finds the mission statement on the masthead page in the front of each issue. This mission statement was approved by the Editorial Board in 1996 and reads as follows:

To promote the art and science of surgery by publishing relevant peer-reviewed clinical and basic science information to assist the surgeon in optimizing . . . [Full Text of this Article]