Prior to the January 21 Meeting of the Medical Staff Organization, 2003 officers gathered. Pictured left to right below are Leonard Lilly, MD, vice chair; Ramon Martin, MD, PhD, chair; Steven Ringer, MD, PhD, chair-elect; Frederick Schoen, MD, PhD, past chair; Roseanna Means, MD, Private Staff representative; and Edmund Cibas, MD, secretary. During the meeting that followed, HMS Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs Mary Clark summarized the process and criteria for academic promotion, emphasizing the clinician-teacher criteria. This was followed by the experienced perspectives of Dr. Jonathan Borus, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Dr. Robert Handin, executive vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at BWH. The meeting was co-sponsored by the MSO, BWPO and the Office for Women’s Careers.