Letter from the CNS President – Spring 2017
Dear Colleagues: I was just looking through the reviews and comments attendees offered following last fall’s annual meeting in Vancouver, and was pleased, but not surprised, to find most of…
Read More Letter from the CNS President – Fall 2016
Dear Colleagues, Our fall meeting in Vancouver promises to be exceptional. Vancouver is a wonderful venue. A record number of abstracts were submitted and accepted, and a record number of…
Read More Letter from the CNS President – Summer 2016
Dear colleagues, We are excited about our annual meeting this fall in Vancouver. The convention site in Vancouver is a wonderful, picturesque venue. The annual NDC program this year will…
Read More Message from the President – Winter 2016
Dear Colleagues: Last year’s fall annual meeting in Washington, DC was well attended and well received, drawing over 1000 participants and more than 65 exhibitors. I thank Jon Mink and…
Read More Message from the President – November/December 2015
I wish everyone a happy holiday season. As we approach the end of November, I want to draw your attention to a few deadlines and developments worth noting for December…
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Letter from the CNS President – Fall 2015
I am quickly coming to the end of my term as President of the Child Neurology Society. The approaching denouement means I repeatedly ask myself two questions: “What has the…
Read More From Cherry Blossoms to Lilacs to National Harbor
The CNS Executive Board met, this year, at the AAN meeting in Washington, DC. The cherry blossoms greeted us as we arrived. How appropriate that this beautiful symbol of the…
Read More Jack (and Jill) Be Nimble … Like a Child Neurologist
It seems those who deal with low incidence, high severity disorders, whether as clinicians, researchers, educators, legislators, or parents, must develop the ability to roll with the punches. One never…
Read More What Holds Us Together?
There is one thing at which I am definitely not very good. That is staying inside of a box with a conventional label. “Pediatrician”, “neurologist”, “child neurologist”, “neuroscientist” – each…
Read More Rising to the Occasion
Charles Dickens definitely had it right. These are the “best of times”; these are the “worst of times”. On the one hand, never before have we had such an extensive…
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