s we approach the close of our celebratory 35th year of Advances in Skin & Wound Care, we rejoice for all the good things in these past few months. The option of in-person attendance at professional conferences became possible once more. Although virtual options are important to facilitate conference learning, being physically present has the added benefit of informal networking outside of the formal educational sessions. These conversations can enrich experiences, build personal connections, and share practice questions and solutions. Getting to meet and exchange information with someone new can also broaden your horizons.This was clearly apparent when Dr Ayello attended the 16th International Congress of AMCICHAC -Asociación Mexicana in Guadalajara. The conference's universal themes of preventing and treating wounds, working in teams, and appropriate resource utilization can improve patient outcomes with reduced costs to healthcare systems. It was also apparent that, during COVID, clinicians have worked hard but had to deliver care under suboptimal circumstances. Insights into unique, culturally sensitive patient-centered concerns, as well as global care perspectives, foreshadow a whole new year for the journal as well as the skin and wound care community. As the official journal for the American Professional Wound Care Association, for further learning as a community, we encourage all of our readers to please make plans now to attend their Wound Week 2023 to be held September 20-24, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.We continue to support the importance of interprofessional teams. This includes the teams in clinical practice as well as the editorial team for the journal. Thank you again to our Editorial Advisory Board members and peer reviewers (past and present) who so generously give their expertise and time. The combined efforts of both teams resulted in an increased Impact Factor. This is especially thrilling because the formula for calculating Impact Factors changed and many journals saw decreases.This year also marked a historic important step taken by the American Nurses Association (ANA). The ANA is the oldest professional association for nurses in the US. 1 Black nurses were excluded from the ANA until 1964. To begin its journey of racial reckoning, the ANA Membership Assembly unanimously voted yes to adopting the ANA Racial Reckoning Statement (June 11, 2022). This statement is a significant and meaningful first step for the association to "acknowledge its own past actions that have negatively impacted nurses of color and perpetuated sys-
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