Dr. Vivian McAlister appointed Co-Editor in Chief of CJS.

Dr. McAlister will be replacing Dr. Garth Warnock as the Co-Editor in Chief of The Canadian Journal of Surgery.

The Canadian Journal of Surgery is one of the few traditional surgical journals still publishing articles for surgeons of all specialties. With a publishing history of over 55 years in Canada, the CJS has published articles from all of Canada's famous or well known surgeons at one time or another.

Dr. McAlister plans to bring the journal into the modern publishing era, eliminating delays in time-to-print that were experienced before. The Canadian Journal of Surgery offers unequalled benefits to authors with articles being deposited immediately into PubMed Central, where they are available free of charge by direct link from search engines such as PubMed and Google.

He hopes to develop new features such as smart-phone Apps and publish annual or special interest collected books to increase the use of articles. A public relations program is also in the works, aiming to increase the profile of authors publishing in the journal and to highlight significant articles.