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President’s Message

Neil Hogg, Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin

My irst duty as SFRBM President approved a motion that we should assess our own brand this year. I

during our recent conference was think most members would agree that the current name of our society

to present Henry Forman with the is not a good representation of who we are or what we want to be.

Distinguished Service Award. It Carney Communications has advised us that our current brand does

is itting therefore, in my irst Dot not play well in the outside world and that “Free Radicals” is to most

message, to look back on what people a rather scary term. Of course, it is vitally important to assess

SFRBM has achieved under Henry’s the wishes of the Society membership, and we will conduct a very
Neil
leadership. First, the two meetings short survey on this issue early in the New Year. I would strongly

in San Antonio and Seattle were encourage everyone to participate in this survey and have your say.
HOGG

very successful, and, in times of
Looking forward, planning for the 2015 meeting in Boston is already
diminishing travel budgets, the
underway and I encourage everyone to submit session proposals.
meetings were well attended.
The 2016 meeting will be held jointly with the Society for Free Radical
Second, our membership of FASEB
Research - International, and will be in San Francisco. With your
gives us a “seat at the table” of high
assistance and participation we hope to continue presenting rigorous
level policy decisions, and I would like the thank past-president Harry
and vital science at our annual meetings.

Ischiropoulos for agreeing to serve as our representative on the
I would like to thank past-president Garry Buettner for chairing the
FASEB Board and Margaret Briehl for serving on the Science Policy

Committee. Third, the hiring of Carney Communications as our PR SFRBM Foundation Board since its inception. Chris Kevil will be taking

Company gives us an opportunity to spread our brand and our science over this position and I am sure he would chastise me if I did not remind

into main-stream media and other public forums. I would like to thank you that the iscal year is coming to a close and that now would be a

Henry for his two years of service to the society and for his work as great time to make that tax-exempt donation to the Society.

FRBM reviews editor. Henry will also leave this position to take over as Finally, I would like to congratulate Rick Domann for being elected

editor-in-chief of Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics next year.
as President-Elect, and I look forward to working with Rick, the Vice-

Presidents, Council and the membership over the next two years.
On the subject of branding, the new SFRBM Council unanimously

I think most members would agree that the current name of

our society is not a good representation of who we are or

what we want to be.

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