Editors' page.

• Author: Krishna, Anupriya

While inaugurating the Journal of Law and Health's popular Lecture Series, one of our predecessors stated the Journal's mission best: the "Journal seeks to serve Cleveland and its health care community by facilitating a link between the medical and legal professions." (1) This year, the Journal's editorial board used three mechanisms to accomplish that goal.

First, the Journal has ambitiously continued the Lecture Series, which attracts members of both Cleveland's medical and legal communities to the law school, with three events during the 2006-07 academic year. In the fall, the Journal hosted a roundtable entitled The New Medicare Drug Plan: Puzzle or Prescription for Health?, which offered perspectives of health care professionals, a legislative aide, and a government administrator on the practical effects of the new medicare prescription drug benefit. In the spring, the Journal hosted Dr. Joseph Lex, professor of emergency room medicine at Temple University, for the second time in the Lecture Series, who presented The FDA: A Watchdog that Doesn't Bite and Has No Incentive to Bark, and Dr. Deborah Denno, the Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, who spoke on the Legal Implications of Research on Genetics and Crime. Business Editors Margo Moore ('07) and Rebecca Smith ('07) deserve credit for making the Journal's Lecture Series a continued success.

Second, the Journal has reached out to members of the Greater Cleveland medical community to write articles, based on the notion that doctors and other professionals in the medical community can identify health-related legal issues as well as any attorney or law professor. This volume includes three such articles: Gil Van Bokkelen, the CEO and chairman of Athersys, Inc., a biotech firm, has written an article on the federal government's role in medical research; Dr. William Seitz, Jr., the Director of Orthopedic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, has written an article on the Ohio's Bureau of Workers' Compensation; and Dr. Charles Lanzieri, the interim-Director of Radiology at University Hospitals, and Dr. Eric Nyberg have written an article on teleradiology, which appears as a part of a perspective on radiology moving offshore. By complimenting the traditional, more theoretical law journal articles and notes written by professors and students, with practical articles written by doctors, other health care professionals, and practicing attorneys, the Journal...