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Abstract
Constantine John Falliers, M.D. Editor, Journal of Asthma, 1981–1988
When Dr. Constantine Falliers (Konstantinos Fallieros in the original Greek) was asked to serve as the editor of the restructured Journal of Asthma in 1980, this medical periodical already had an 18-year publication history. Founded as the official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma, it was edited by a New York allergist-pharmacologist-psychoanalyst, Dr. Harold Abramson. Abramson's death prompted the changes, including the selection of a new publisher, Marcel Dekker, Inc., of New York and Basel. One issue was published in 1981 and four issues in 1982. Increasing interest in the journal's concerns, and its broad perspective, led to a bi-monthly schedule, with six issues annually. Turning the relatively restricted field of asthma and the consequently limited circulation of such a subspecialty journal into an advantage, the new editor was able to be much more original and innovative than would have been the case with medical journals of wider coverage. New features unique among medical periodicals in general were introduced between 1981 and 1983, including: