Anniversaries

Alistair G.S. Philip

doi:10.1542/neo.21-10-e641

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Although events occur in every year, we tend to concentrate on (or attach special significance to) those years which end in a zero, largely because they end (or possibly start) a decade, a century, or even a millennium.

Since this is 2020, we have reached the 20th anniversary of the publication of NeoReviews as an online-only journal (6 issues were published jointly with Pediatrics in Review at the end of 1999). This makes us think about where we have come from and where we might be going. At this point in my life, I am more inclined to reflection than to prognostication and offer some thoughts on important events that made an impact on me and my colleagues in medicine during my lifetime.

1960

This was the start of my final year at medical school, which clearly was an important time for me personally. However, the more important event that deserves recognition is that this was the year of publication of the first edition of the text by Alexander Shaffer entitled Diseases of the Newborn (which later became …