Stan Ashley and Barbara Bierer

Dear Colleagues,

We’re pleased to share with you the first issue of our updated e-newsletter BWH Clinical & Research News.

This newsletter will celebrate the institution’s achievements and recognize the awe-inspiring work each of you is doing in your lab, the operating room, on inpatient floors, in outpatient clinics and in administrative areas.

We have improved BWH Clinical & Research News. The new format and the articles we will include are based on your feedback from a readership survey conducted earlier this year, as well as from the rich discussions we had during open forums with the research community.

BWH Clinical & Research News is delivered online to bring you information and news in a more timely and efficient manner. Whenever possible, articles will be shorter so that you can access the information that is most helpful to you. Features will be a bit longer and reflect the depth and breadth of the research, clinical care, education and community service that you perform day in and day out on behalf of the patients and families we care for.

We want to continue to hear from you about what is important to include in BWH Clinical & Research News and what topics are of interest to you and your colleagues.

We hope the publication will help foster a deeper sense of community among our clinicians and scientists, and that it will be a source of pride for all you do in service to our mission.

Please send feedback and ideas for future articles to bwhclinicalandresearchnews@partners.org

Sincerely,

Stan Ashley, MD, Chief Medical Officer

Barbara Bierer, MD, Senior Vice President of Research