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Robert B Zurier

| Apr 19, 2021 7:44 pm

As newly minted Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut Medical School in 1975, I submitted an article to A&R, of which Dr Christian was an editor. After several rejections and rewrites, I was ready to give it up when I received a call directly from Dr Christian. He recognized, as did I, that the rejections were based on petty thinking by reviewers like those we saw at NIH Study Sections, who worried that if they approved anything, be it grant applications or submitted articles, there would be less money or journal space for them.. Dr Christian told me to not change anything more and return the manuscript directly to him. I did, and it was published promptly. That was the good sense and big heart and caring and mentoring quality of Chuck Christian.
Bob Zurier
Robert B Zurier, MD
Professor of Medicine, Chief of Rheumatology Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School.