Lessons Learned...

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Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a privilege to deliver the John Wayne Lecture in Clinical Research. When asked to deliver this lecture, it gave me time to reflect on 30 years of clinical research. Of great concern, however, was how to make it interesting and how to make it sequential. I thought I would begin with lessons that I have learned about giving a talk. They are rather simple lessons and they involve the why, the when, the who, the how, and the clear awareness that boredom can kill the finest of talks. I have learned that the occasional frivolity will reawaken the audience and succeeds in delivering a message that is lost in repeatable and uninterpretive slides. I hope my presentation will not be too pixelated! …