The Changing Roles of a Surgical Department Chair

was so honored by Dr Organ's invitation to write this article that I immediately accepted. Then, as I considered this subject-changes in the role of an academic surgical chair| I realized the difficulty I faced. Certainly, any such assessment by me alone is biased by my personal experience and particularly by my incomplete understanding of the roles of an academic surgical chair in the past. Nevertheless, as my wife, Shannon, would be quick to point out, incomplete knowledge of a subject has never stopped me from expounding about it.