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From the Editor Happy New Year to our readers! This Winter edition of the ALS Newsletter finalizes another year of keeping our readers informed. In this edition of the ALS Newsletter, Dr. Serge Przedborski our Research Director provides an update on further investigations into the cell death process involved in ALS and Belinda Cupid from the International Alliance for Motor Neuron Diseases shares her summary of the international ALS/MND meeting in Milan this past November. Both articles continue to demonstrate the efforts toward finding a cure for ALS, as well as how to manage the disease. The International meeting summary may help many of our readers to feel the reality of collaboration in ALS as it spans not only disciplines, but institutions, states and continents. Ms. Cupid’s article references not only the positive experiences in ALS advances but also the challenges we continue to face as a community committed to the cause. The ALS Research Center at Columbia University Medical Center was well represented at the Milan meeting. Clinicians from our Center presented on some of our current research projects totaling 5 lectures during the 3-day conference. Future editions will share more of those findings with our readers. Until then, everyone at the Center sends you and yours a wonderful 2004! Listening is the art by which we use empathy to reach across the space between us. Passive attention does not work. Michael P. Nichols
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