A Word from the Editor
Since this is my first year as the editor of the yearbook, it has been an interesting learning experience. I have received invaluable help from my good friend and predecessor, Peg Bailey, whose shoes I will never be able to completely fill. Thanks, Peg, for the many hours you have spent "showing me the ropes" and making my job so much easier.
My thanks go to all of the members of the BMEP Class of 2000-2001, who wrote so promptly and so eloquently about their experiences and their scientific research. I have enjoyed reading every contribution to the yearbook, and I hope that my editing has done justice to their words. The abstracts on their research topics were not edited, however, since they were definitely outside my area of expertise.
This group of BMEP students will always remain special to me, since this was the first class for which I was totally responsible. I enjoyed our time at the Forum, (but not the torrential rains on Friday evening), and I have maintained a lively e-mail correspondence with many members of the group. Peg tells me that there seems to be an abundance of outstanding candidates for selection as BMEP students, and that each class seems to surpass the previous one, but I do not believe that a more outstanding group of brilliant and handsome young scientists could ever be assembled.
My thanks also go to Dr. Stolte, for his patience with my limitations and for his unlimited enthusiasm for his mission, and to Birgit Heller, for her generous assistance and friendly e-mails from Berlin.
Finally, I want to wish each member of the BMEP Class of 2000-2001 much success in the future. Please keep in touch with me and tell me about your lives as successful medical doctors, scientists, and ambassadors for IALS and BMEP.
Laurie in the Scottish Highlands, one week after the Forum concluded.		Laurie B. Williams U.S. Program Coordinator
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