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David Bruns: An Editor for All Reasons

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Health Services Division, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6220, E-mail cxb@ornl.gov

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On January 1, 1990, David Bruns became the 3rd Editor in Chief of Clinical Chemistry, succeeding J. Stanton King, who served as editor from 1970 to 1989. After 18 years of distinguished service, Dr Bruns will retire from the Journal on January 1, 2008. Under his stewardship, Clinical Chemistry has evolved into an excellent journal with a reputation for publishing top-notch, state-of-the-art papers in clinical chemistry, laboratory medicine, and emerging related fields.

Notable accomplishments during David’s editorship include:

• Raising the global image of Clinical Chemistry.
  
• Placing Clinical Chemistry among the 1st generation of journals to implement electronic publication.
  
• Decreasing time from submission to publication.
  
• Reflecting changes in the field, such as adding new sections . . . [Full Text of this Article]