Future Co-Chairs of The Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group (CC-Info, 4 March, 2004)

Mike Clarke mclarke@cochrane.co.uk

Jim Neilson and I have been Co-Chairs of The Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group since the Annual General Meeting in Stavanger in August 2002. We are, therefore, due to complete our two-year term of office and step down at the Annual General Meeting in Ottawa on 3 October 2004.

This was discussed by the Steering Group at its meeting in Bergamo earlier this week, and I am very pleased to announce the following:

Jim has agreed to stay on as Co-Chair for one more year, so as to ensure continuity in the Chairing of the Steering Group; and Kathie Clark, Co-Director of the Canadian Cochrane Centre, has been appointed by the Steering Group as Co-Chair for two years, with effect from 3 October 2004. This should establish a system for the future, in which the Co-Chairs of the Steering Group will not both step down in the same year.

I congratulate both Kathie and Jim, thank them for offering and agreeing to take on these roles, and wish them very well for the future.

Mike Clarke
Co-Chair, Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group