The new board of directors would like to extend their appreciation and all the thanks to all the members of the previous board of director for the efforts done and call them to extend their ideas and suggestions with us to reach our goals in the next period.

This club will prosperous by the active participation of all the members through all aspects of the activities and by their attendance of the different functions the club hopes to organize.

We hope to have a meeting in the first Friday every 2 months. This meeting is either scientific or social for the members and their families.

We plan to publish the newsletter every 3 months, your contribution with articles, suggestions and ideas will be of great help.

The board has received confirmation from the chairman of the medical education to consider the club meeting as part of CME and points will awarded for the attendance or active participation.

You will notice we have a new chapter of internet review in the last page, this will help the members as well as their patients to go through the internet to know more about their illness.

We are adding in the last page a short diary of the most interesting courses and conferences for the year, which enable the reader to select according to his privileges.

We take this opportunity to thank the drug companies that sponsored this newsletter.

Dr. Medhat Shams