Fifteen years with the Southern California Vascular Surgical Society

A brief history of the Southern California Vascular Surgical Society was pr esented at its sixteenth meeting. This review includes an account of the pr oliferation of vascular societies in the last 50 years as well as the speci fics of the circumstances surrounding this society's origin and its close r elationship with the Annals of Vascular Surgery. A review of the course of the society notes the common pattern of distinguished guests and of socioec onomic presentations that have become so important during these last 15 yea rs.