Clinical Theriogenology 2022; 14: 10

Editor’s note

Dear theriogenology friends,

Our journal is entering its 14th year. Another year 
of progress. For the last 4 years, I along with you 
all, were privileged to build on the foundation laid 
by the founding editor, Dr. Bob Youngquist, who 
has been an important force for the discipline over 
the years. I made more theriogenology friends in 
the last 4 years than my 40 years of academic life! 
Three issues are worth mentioning.

Changing of the guards!

I express my profound appreciation to the members 
of the Editorial Board for their insights and contri-
butions to the journal. Five of them (Drs. Etta 
Bradecamp, Sara Lyle, Lynda Miller, Colin Pal-
mer, and Karen Wolfsdorf) have completed their 
terms and they deserve our gratitude for their time 
and effort. Furthermore, 5 colleagues (Drs. Allan 
Gunn, Michelle Kutzler, Réjean Lefebvre, Jennifer 
Roberts, and Cyril Stephen) will be taking their 
places and have already contributed to our journal 
(abstracts and manuscripts and worked with me 
in reviewing manuscripts). All incoming members 
will submit manuscripts. Additionally, our inter-
national members (Allan, Cyril, and Réjean) will 
help our journal to publish more manuscripts by 
overseas colleagues. 

Electronic issues

Four years ago, copy editor Dr. John Kastelic and I, 
discussed on ways to improve our journal. Collea-
gues were approached to create reviews in their 
areas of expertise, keeping a focus on applied as-

pects of theriogenology. Recently, Dr. Ahmed Tiba-
ry, our design editor, also suggested to the boards 
that we ought to create a ‘rubric of timely topics’ 
in comparative and species-specific topics in the-
riogenology. Time has come to accomplish this 
goal! Dr. Igor Canisso, a wonderful colleague, or-
ganized 15 electronic issues with variety of manus-
cripts. Our goal is to have them published within 
next 3 years. We are thankful to Igor and collea-
gues who will serve as guest editors and will also 
contribute. We will continue to have our regular 
4 print issues per year. Let me stress again, in ad-
dition to case reports, reviews, please also submit 
RESEARCH manuscripts!

Last issue pertains to our recent journal survey. I 
am in touch with colleagues who volunteered to 
create reviews in their areas of expertise. I look 
forward to receiving their reviews.

Our leadership (Society for Theriogenology, Ame-
rican College of Theriogenologists, and Therioge-
nology Foundation) deserve our appreciation for 
their vision to promote scholarship in our disci-
pline. Thanks to Omnipress and Franz manage-
ment for continuing to refine our journal archives. 
I appreciate the support and friendship of Drs. 
John Kastelic, Ahmed Tibary, Charles Franz, and 
Mrs. Tara Beasley (our management office). Pur-
due University has been a great help. I am very 
grateful to my wife Damayanthy Peter for devoted 
daily prayer, encouragement, and tea.

Regards,

Augustine