APS: The Times They Are A-Changin'

摘要

The next 12 months will see many changes in the American Physiological Society. First, you will have heard by now that our long-serving and much esteemed Executive Director Marty Frank announced his retirement from this position, effective June 2018.Second, with the sale of the APS Bethesda headquarters by FASEB that will occur soon, the APS will be relocating into a new building next year in late spring/early summer. Third, there are ongoing plans for a significant change in the organization and structure of the annual Experimental Biology (EB) meeting. Finally, we reported last year that a company called Minding Your Business (MYB) was helping APS devise a new strategic plan. MYB presented their findings and proposals to Council in June, and theimplementation process is well under way. The current state of this initiative will be discussed below. So the three of us, as past, current, and future presidents have much to occupy our minds in the next few months. We hope that, together with you, members of the physiology community, we can guide the Society forward in these uncertain times. Our goal is to build on the very substantial, existing strengths of the APS and ensure that the Society evolves to meet your changing needs as we approach the second quarter of the 21st century.