New benchmarks for seminars in liver disease

摘要

With the publication of its November 2010 issue, Seminars in Liver Disease completed 30 years of publication. Its first issue, in February 1981, appeared in precisely the same month as the first issue of Hepatology. Having been there at the beginning, I can attest that the launching of these journals was accompanied by considerable angst on the part of those involved in both projects. We are now 32 years into the process and both have surpassed their founders' wildest dreams. They have thrived in parallel with the astonishing progress in both the scientific underpinnings and the clinical practice of hepatology, as further reflected in the progressive growth of the strikingly vibrant annual meetings of related professional societies such as AASLD and EASL.