A Tribute to Mr. Thomas W. Teal on His Retirement
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0092-8615/2001 Copyright Q 2001 Drug Information Association Inc.
A TRIBUTE TO MR. THOMAS W. TEAL ON HIS RETIREMENT
IT IS OUR GREAT privilege and honor, as members of the Editorial Board of the Drug Information Journal. to write this letter to our fellow members of the Drug Information Association in order to pay tribute to Mr. Thomas W. Teal. At the end of 2001, Mr. Teal is retiring from his position as editor-in-chief of the Drug Information Journal. Mr. Teal has served the association in this position for 18 years. Since this issue of the journal is the last one to be published under Mr. Teal’s leadership, we dedicate this issue to him in special recognition of his many contributions to our association. Mr.Teal is one of the parents of the Drug Information Association (DIA), and he has played an essential role in the organization’s origin, growth through adolescence, and expansion. As many of you know, Mr. Teal served as executive director of DIA from 1979 to 1991. In addition, he has served at the helm of the Drug Information Journal as
its editor-in-chief from 1983 through 2001. Tom has blessed the association with his leadership, mentorship, honesty, salesmanship, professionalism, and dedication. More than any other individual, Tom saw the opportunity for a journal to serve the members of this fledgling organization in the 1960s and 1970s. In those days, the association had only a few hundred members and activities were focused in the United States. From those modest beginnings, the association grew to the extraordinary DIA of today, which has more than 25000 members and is truly international in scope. Early on, Tom realized the many merits of independent editorial and publication control of the journal by the association, so he took steps to enable the association to publish its own journal-a sound business decision that continues to reap benefits today. We pulled some early volumes of the journal from our shelves. We must admit that we knew, without opening each volume, what
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would lie within. For example, back in the early 1980s (for those of you who remember, the issues were printed with black and white covers with the words Drug Information Journal printed in fluorescent green letters!), issues contained papers on the following diverse topics: Adverse event dictionaries, Biotechnology, 0 Case report form design, Computer-assisted New Drug Applications, 0 Controlled-release products, Contract research organizations, 0 Cost-effectiveness of therapies, 0 Costs of drug development, 0 Data management, Drug information services, 0 Drug safety monitoring, 0 Information systems, Inspections, 0 Laws governing drug development, 0 Over-the-counter product advertising, 0 Prescription drug labeling, 0 Promotion of prescription drugs, Protection of human subjects, 0 Regulatory affairs, 0 Statistics, 0 Strategic planning, 0 Study design, 0 Training of clinical research personnel, and Validati
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