Fifteen years with the Southern California Vascular Surgical Society

A brief history of the Southern California Vascular Surgical Society was presented at its sixteenth meeting. This review includes an account of the proliferation of vascular societies in the last 50 years as well as the specifics of the circumstances surrounding this society's origin and its close relationship with the Annals of Vascular Surgery. A review of the course of the society notes the common pattern of distinguished guests and of socioeconomic presentations that have become so important during these last 15 years.