Preface
Malcolm Chiswick leaves Archives
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Malcolm Chiswick is stepping down, having been an editor of ADC for nearly 13 years. Before that he was the journal's first associate editor, having been recruited to use his expertise to strengthen the journal's neonatal content. So impressively did he strengthen it that the amount of high quality newborn research submitted eventually threatened to swamp publication of papers from other disciplines. Consequently the Fetal and Neonatal edition was born, initially published quarterly and now bimonthly.
Thankfully, Malcolm is a genuine paediatric dinosaur, in that he retains a general paediatric as well as a neonatal caseload and research interests, and broadness of approach which is a great gift for an editor. Whether anyone of a younger generation can do the same is doubtful, provoking much pencil chewing by his successor.
His second great achievement was to make sure
ADC became, and remains, an internationally
acknowledged high quality scientific journal, rather than
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