Incorporated into the logo for our 2011 Montreal Meeting is the theme: “Clinical Needs and Research Promises: Bridging the Gap.” Bringing novel applications from the bench to the bedside is one of the basic tenets of our society. Having a forum for dialogue between the basic scientists who are at the forefront of technology development, and the physicians who care for patients, is what draws us together in large numbers at the ISMRM Annual Meeting – “one community for clinicians and scientists.”