It gives me great pleasure to write this Foreword for the biography of Dr. Marie Lin and to be able to pay her a personal tribute. I first met her in 1991 when she invited me to present a paper at the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society of Blood Transfusion of which, at that time, she was the President.
Marie has been active in Laboratory Medicine since her return to Taiwan in 1981 following a four year period spent in Texas, USA, for postgraduate training in Pathology. During the latter part of the 1980s she became interested in blood transfusion medicine and the majority of her 108 scientific publications relate to this specialty.
Marie was elected a Councillor of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) in 1992, a post she held for four years. This was not the end of her involvement with the Society since she and her colleagues hosted a very successful Regional ISBT Congress in Taipei in 1999.
Marie Lin has made significant contributions to the practice of blood transfusion medicine both in Taiwan and internationally. She now holds a senior position in Blood Transfusion Research in the Mackay Memorial Hospital.
Marie has a delightful personality and an evening spent with her
and her husband, Theodore, will live in the memories of my wife
and I. I am pleased that she has a Biography. I am sure that
this will be read with interest, not only in South-east Asia
but, also, by her friends in many countries throughout the world
where she is held in high regard and is respected.
我很高興能為林媽利醫師的傳記寫序。我第一次遇到她是在1991年，當時她是台灣輸血學會的會長，邀我到台灣輸血學會的年會演講。
媽利在1981年自美國德州大學病理的訓練回台灣後，積極做檢驗醫學的工作，在1980年代的後期，對輸血醫學發生了興趣，她的108篇論文大都和輸血醫學有關。媽利在1992年被選為國際輸血學會為期四年的理事，但4年後並沒有終止她對國際輸血學會的參與，1999年，她與台灣的同事在台北主辦了非常成功的西太平洋區國際輸血學會大會。媽利對台灣及國際的輸血醫學做了重要的貢獻，她現在是馬偕紀念醫院輸血醫學研究的主任。
媽利有喜悅的個性，內人和我及她和她的夫婿郭惠二共度的夜晚將留在我們的記憶裡。我很高興有本關於她的傳記，我肯定這本書將是很吸引人的書，而且不只在東南亞、在世界上許多國家，都有關心和敬愛媽利的朋友非常期待這本書。
