Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.