Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.,
Volume 159, Number 2, February 1999, 353-353
Martin Tobin, Editor-Designate
ALAN R.
LEFF
Chicago, Illinois
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One of the special honors accorded the editor in the last year
of the term is the announcement of the editor-designate. Effective September 1, 1999, Martin J. Tobin, M.D., will begin
his term as Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine. It is a personal pleasure for me to
make this formal announcement, for Martin has served as Associate Editor during my entire term as Editor, and we were
Associate Editors together with Bob Klocke. In total, Martin
has been an AE for 7 years, and so he comes to the job highly
apprenticed and with full knowledge of the nature of the position and duties he will assume.
Martin Tobin was born in Kilkenny, Ireland and attended
medical school at University College Dublin. Following the
European tradition, he then earned the degree of Doctor of
Medicine through completion of a thesis on development of
inductive plethysmography for noninvasive respiratory monitoring. Martin completed his internal medicine training in Ireland before accepting a British Thoracic Association Research
Fellowship at King's College Hospital in London with Drs. P. Hugh-Jones, D. C. S. Hutchison, and John Costello. From 1980 to 1982, he was a pulmonary fellow in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Miami with Drs. Marvin Sackner and Adam Wanner, and he then was a critical care
fellow at the University of Pittsburgh with Dr. A. Grenvik. His
first faculty appointment was at the University of Texas in
Houston, and he became Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at Loyola University in 1990 and 1991, respectively.
He is the supreme scholar of critical care medicine and editor or author of seven extraordinary textbooks on the subject. In addition, Martin has published 137 peer-reviewed papers
and numerous book chapters. He has been a tireless worker
for the Society. In addition to his 7 years as AE for the
AJRCCM, he has chaired the Program Committee and the
Critical Care Assembly for the ATS. He was elected to the
American Society for Clinical Investigation in 1994 and has
been listed in The Best Doctors in America.
The complete list of kudos could fill a supplement to the
Journal, and so I will highlight a few of the personal and academic attributes that distinguish Martin so clearly for the position of Editor. To our great delight and good fortune, Martin
has served on the Editorial Board of Thorax and on Editorial
Advisory Board in Intensive Care Medicine for the European
Respiratory Society, all while holding academic positions in
the United States. He is thus eminently positioned to continue
the tradition of internationalism that characterizes both the
Society's International Meeting and the international preeminence of the Journal. His diverse endeavors in various fields of
pulmonary and critical care medicine, including ventilation
management, sleep and respiratory muscle physiology, and
systemic critical illness, provide him with exceptional breadth of oversight, which is much needed in overseeing a Journal as eclectic as ours. Finally, his approach to excellence and academic integrity are uncompromising. Martin is dedicated to
making the Journal the best it ever can be, and has new ideas
to implement in so doing. These I will leave for him to announce, as he appoints his new board of Associate Editors and
assumes his new position. As I look back on my predecessors
and at the quality of this current appointment, I am greatly
honored to have been included among those who have guided
the Journal's editorial efforts. Our new leadership will be in
the best of hands.
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