438 LETTERSTOTHEEDITOR SukruTekindura, MemduhYetimb,∗
aGulhaneMilitaryMedicalAcademy(GMMA),Department ofAnesthesiologyandReanimation,Ankara,Turkey bVanMilitaryHospital,Van,Turkey
∗Correspondingauthor.
E-mail:stekindur@hotmail.com(M.Yetim). Availableonline27November2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjane.2015.02.005
BJA:
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RBA:
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DearEditor:
‘‘Inote withsatisfactionthat in January 2016 the thirty-ninth year of uninterrupted activity as a member of the Editorial Board of the Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (BJA)isstarting.’’InvitedbytheformerChiefEditorMario VillamilBentoGonc¸alves,IjoinedtheBoardinJanuary1978 withthetaskofimplementingthe‘‘BibliographicalReview’’ section,withabstractsofpaperspublishedininternational journals of the specialty. In January 1980, with the late Masami Katayama, there were significant changes to the Journal layout and presentation. The ‘‘Educational Num-bers’’,whichIhadtheprivilegeofcoordinating,invitedby Masami, have provided ammunition to the Education and TrainingCentersoftheSBAwitheducationalmaterialabout thescientificbasisofthe specialty,fillingthough partially aneedinthisarea.Masamiheldthepositionwithenviable proficiencyuntil1988,establishingguidelinesforthefuture oftheJournal.
AntonioLeiteSilvaFilho(1989---1994),LuizMarciano Can-giani (1995---2003), Judymara Lauzi Gozzani (2004---2009), MárioJosédaConceic¸ão(2010---2015)and,currently,Maria AngelaTardellifollowedhisfootsteps.
Allhonor me withthe invitationtoremain part ofthe EditorialBoard,andsoIwasabletowitnesstheeffortand competenceofeveryoneinthesafeconductionofthemain scientificdisseminationorganoftheSBA.
In 1990, as Chairman of the Board of the SBA, I had anotherprivilege:toforwardtheBJAinternationalexposure processin which was editedan annual numberin English witharticles selectedby theEditorial Board that year. It
wasthe‘‘BrazilianJournalofAnesthesiology---International Issue’’,Volume1,1990.Unfortunatelyin1990management, the‘‘CollorPlan’’causedproblemsforthefinancial situa-tionoftheSBA,notallowingthepublicationoftheBrazilian Journalfirstissuethatyear,whichhappenedhoweverearly in thenextadministration, under thechairmanshipof my friendCarlosAlbertoSouzaMartins.
Duringall theseyears, Ifollowed the long and painful process of the BJA indexation and modernization. It has neverbeen alackof braveryanddedicationinany ofthe Editors for the Journal to reach the situation of excel-lenceandinternationalrecognitionthatboaststoday.And Icannotbutexpressmyfeelingofgreatsatisfactiontobe abletohavecontributedoverthisperiodwithonehundred ninety-sevenpublicationsintheBJA,comprisingclinicaland experimental research papers, review articles, editorials, andothers.Because asPlato said:‘‘spoken wordsfly, but writingremains’’.Andwhenthewritingremainsinamatrix oftheBJAcaliber,theachievementismuchmorerewarding.
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Theauthordeclaresnoconflictsofinterest. JoséRobertoNocitia,b,c
aSociedadeBrasileiradeAnestesiologia(SBA),Riode Janeiro,RJ,Brazil
bCETHospitalSãoFrancisco,InstitutoSantaLydia, RibeirãoPreto,SP,Brazil
cWorldFederationofSocietiesofAnaesthesiologists (WFSA),UnitedKingdom
E-mail:contato@coopanestrp.com.br
Availableonline30April2016
