Welcome to Perioperative Medicine

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We are proud to welcome you to the launch issue of Perioperative Medicine. Many before us have campaigned for improvements in the care of patients undergoing surgery and for us this is a major milestone in our clinical and academic careers. As a group we have drawn much inspiration and leadership from Professor David Bennett and have done the majority of our research and teaching on perioperative medicine with the explicit aim of improving the outcome of patients undergoing major surgery [1]. With David and colleagues we have campaigned and lobbied for improved and consistent standards of care [2, 3]. We started the Evidence Based Perioperative Medicine International Congress (EBPOM) over a decade ago and now work closely with sister organizations around the world [4, 5]. Perioperative medicine is now rightly recognized as a legitimate and independent sub-specialty but the journey is only just beginning [6‐8]. …