With the launch of Volume 31, Issue 3, The Journal of Biocommunication (JBC) completes its second full electronic volume; and what a way to close out a volume – this issue is filled with a very diverse offering of both written and visual biocommunications. Starting with the "video wall" cover created by JBC's talented webmaster, Michael Getz, you will experience another facet of the journal's diverse and dynamic modes of communication. A variety of still and motion-media techniques will be seen, and in some cases, heard, throughout the journal from the features, columns, showcase, and gallery.

The Features section contains two excellent papers, including: Dan Austin's experience producing DVDs: "DVD Authoring in the Modern World", and Stephen Mader (et al) provide us with an elegant review of medical legal illustration techniques: "Medical-legal illustrations, animations and interactive media: personal injury lawyers' perceptions of effective attributes."

This Issue's Columns offer the latest scheduled professional events and activities in Calendar and Association News; 25 years Ago in JBP/JBPA revisits a number of biophotography topics from yesteryear; a Viewpoint by Camillia Matuk discusses the need for a medical illustration degree program that would lead to a Ph.D.; Showcase presents a selection of Infrared, Ultraviolet and Fluorescence imagery from Gigi and Robin Williams; Gallery gives us a look at the winning entries from the Health and Science Communications Association's 2005 Media Festival; and the TechBytes column shares a review of a new guide for digital standards.

JBC is pleased to see the reappearance of TechBytes and welcomes its new writer, Bobb Sleezer. Bobb is a veteran of better than twenty-five years biocommunications experience in veterinary medicine, health care delivery, education, and also worked in the industrial/scientific business-side of our profession. We look forward to his future insightful columns.

Also in this issue, there is a Special Report on the "3rd World Congress of Medical and Scientific Imaging" which took place in Cairns, Australia. The report was submitted by meeting co-chairs. Chris Barry and Julie Murray. Both are members of the Australian Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration, AIMBI, (as were a number of the meeting participants), and we are delighted to have some folks from that organization contribute to the Journal. Gigi and Robin Williams, mentioned above, are also AIMBI members. We encourage AIMBI’s membership to seriously consider joining the JBC Consortium.

On another note, JBC welcomes Nancy Hurtgen as our new Business Manger. Nancy has been affiliated with the business administration of a biocommunications society (BPA/BCA) for better than two decades. She is very familiar with the biocommunications community and provides friendly, prompt, and helpful responses to all subscription inquiries.

JBC has a new Business Manager due to the departure of its long-standing colleague, Ron Sokowlowski. Ron is approaching the twilight of his career and recently requested JBC to find a replacement for his position. We thank Ron for his contributions over the many years, and wish him best wishes as he begins planning for a long anticipated retirement.

As always, JBC continues to move forward, striving to offer issues with a variety of biocommunications content. We welcome your input, from submitting featured papers, expressing an idea or comment in Viewpoint, or to making suggestions on topics you want to see in JBC. Do not hesitate to contact any of the JBC Association Representatives or Editors if you have ideas or suggestions. We look forward to hearing from you and trust you will enjoy this issue.

Bob Turner,
Chair, JBC Management Board
bturner@scripps.edu

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Editorial Review Board: Scott Barrows (Medical Art Associates) • Janis Brown (University of Southern California) • Susan G. Deihl (Virginia Commonwealth University) • Craig Gosling (Indiana University) • Christine Gralapp (Fairfax, Calif.) • Carol Asimow Gray (UCLA Medical Center) • Jamie Guth (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) • Winifred Hamilton (Baylor College of Medicine) • Tom Hurtgen (Duke University School of Medicine) • Dale Kennedy (VA Medical Center - Albuquerque, New Mexico) • Lori J. Klein (National Library of Medicine) • Dale Knorr (Naval Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.) • Gregory Lucier (University of Calgary) • Patrick Lynch (Yale University) • Steven Moon (Ohio State University) • Darisse Paquette (Tufts-New England Medical Center) • Stephen Pendry (Iowa State University) • Michael Peres (Rochester Institute of Technology) • Sue Seif (Seif & Associates.) • Bobb Sleezer (Christiana Care Health Services) • Herbert R. Smith, Jr. (Houston, Tex.) • Keith Stenehjem (Mayville State University) • Judy Tyler (National Student Nurses Association) • John Vetter (Pittsburgh, Pa.) • Susan Zimmerman (Wordcraft Communications)

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