Turning Our Faces Toward the New…

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Happy New Year! With this issue, we begin a new year and pause to give thanks for past achievements and thought to new endeavors. It has been a remarkable year. In many ways, the Journal’s year has been much like the year we have all personally experienced. This has been a year that has brought achievements and some challenges. A year where we said goodbye to some of our organization’s pioneers and hello to new members who will become tomorrow’s leaders. These sensitivities are particularly acute having recently attended the International Cancer Education Conference (i.e., annual AACE/CPEN meeting). That meeting marks the end of one year and the beginning of another in the life of our organizations and was certainly true to the tradition of past years. Old acquaintances gathered together; new acquaintances made; lessons shared; and future plans devised. At the annual editorial board meeting, we reviewed the past years achievements and discussed future initiatives. …