<International Circulation>: During the ISC 2010， there will be a roundtable session that will include individual and group mentoring on writing an abstract， preparing a poster and publishing. Could talk a little bit about this new session?

Prof. Greenberg: My understanding is that it was quite well attended and well received. Clearly， the lifeblood of any organization is to bring young people into the field. The greatest interest is in bringing in young people from under-represented groups and also internationally to bring more people into the stroke field. The setup of the session was to have faculty available in a variety of fields. In this way， people can find a mentor and go from being a consumer of the literature to being a producer of the literature. This is currently a difficult funding environment for research in the U.S， but there is clearly room for more good work and the need is not going away. Stroke remains the leading cause of chronic disability in the U.S so the need for young people to get into the field won’t go away. Teaching people the standards that have to be achieved to be able to publish and receive research funding is the best thing we can do to assure the future of stroke research.