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Dr. Robert Griggs will end his 10-year term as Editor-in-Chief of Neurology in December 2006. Dr. John Noseworthy of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, has been named as his successor effective January 1, 2007. Dr. Noseworthy received his MD degree from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia (Canada), interned at the Royal Columbia Hospital in British Columbia, and completed his residency training at Dalhousie University and the University of Western Ontario (London). He studied under a postdoctoral fellowship in immunology at Harvard and was on the staff of the University of Western Ontario from 1983 to 1990. In 1990, he moved to the Mayo Clinic and served as Chair of the Department of Neurology from 1997 until early in 2006. His research focuses on multiple sclerosis and clinical trials. He has just completed his 3-year term as Chair of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Science Committee. He is the editor of the three-volume textbook Neurological Therapeutics: Principles and Practice (2nd edition, Informa Healthcare, 2006) and Fifty Neurologic Cases from Mayo Clinic (Oxford University Press, 2004). Dr. Noseworthy plans to add new sections to the Journal including “Case Records of Mayo Clinic” and “Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research.” Each of these features will be presented once per month. Case …