Leonard Cohen
When I first agreed to direct the Leonard Cohen
The friendships with the wonderful artists who performed was maybe the best part. My friends in music internationally now number approximately the same as my friends in medicine, all great people and so much fun to interact with! The fourteen hundred people we attracted to the Winspear Concert Hall on Saturday night for our Gala Concert is five or six times the number of people who attend the consensus generating meetings I run every two years in medicine. Different configurations, different aims, but both types of gatherings are important, each accomplishes something unique and significant.
So what now? Well on the Leonard Cohen
On the medical side our planning for the next Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology in August 2009 is well in place, the program is set and we have begun to invite speakers and sponsors. Already thinking way ahead there, the 2011 Allograft Pathology meeting will be in Paris, 2013 will be in Brazil (Rio? Manaus?) and 2015 in Sweden. The meeting will not be back in Banff, Canada until 2017.
Increasingly it looks like standard setting in medicine of the type we do in these meetings will be even more important in the future
Quite the opposite of most people, now that our big July event is over I am not going anywhere, or doing anything special in August and September. Just staying here in Edmonton immersing myself in the medical work routine during the days which is nice to be able to focus on again, and in the evenings enjoying the local cultural scene where others perform and organize and I can just sit there and soak it in!
Have a great rest of the summer!
Best regards. - Kim
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