During the meeting of the ALEH delegates held in Buenos Aires in December 2006, the Annals of Hepatology (official journal of the Mexican Hepatology Association) was unanimously designated as the official journal of the Latin-American Association for the Study of the Liver. This change comes to replace “Gastroenterologia y Hepatología”, the journal of the Spanish Association for the Study of the Liver, which served as official journal of the ALEH in the last 4 years.
This decision to appoint Annal of Hepatology as the official journal of ALEH was based on our belief that the official journal of a Latin American association in better published in one of these countries. After a careful analysis, Annals of Hepatology was appointed for the purpose.
We appreciate the extraordinary work performed by Dr. Nahum Méndez-Sánchez and his team as the editors of Annals of Hepatology, and we hope that this new project will contribute to a more effective integration and collaboration between all the hepatologists and related specialists practicing in our continent as well as worldwide.
