Million thanks Helen and thanks also to all of you who have contributed! I would also like to thank Bo Carlberg, Umeå, Sweden who is leaving the HT News team as well as the ISH Executive and Council this autumn to dedicate more time to his research students.

Bo, you have contributed in an outstanding way and without your help the ISH newsletter would not be what it is today! The good news is that Bo has promised to continue to help us in the future in a more “freelance” way! Professor Thomas Kahan from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has stepped in and will gradually take over Bo’s work for HT News e.g. the HOT off the Press – Clinical section. I am sure that Thomas is known to most of you. He is an outstanding researcher with a special focus on “hypertension and the heart". Welcom Thomas!

In this issue of HT News the new President of ISH presents her views on the future and where she wants to take the Society. Exciting stuff!

Please join me in welcoming Rhiang as the 1^st  female President of our Society.

Have a good read!

Lars H Lindholm, Editor