History Trivia

Test your knowledge of the Society from information compiled for our 25th Anniversary:

At the Society's first annual meeting, held at the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, FL, accommodations for a family of four cost $50 a day.

Dr. Stewart Reuter served as the Society's first Annual Meeting Program Chair.

Dr. Morton Bosniak served as the Society's first Membership Committee chair.

Dr. Stanley Baum is the only president to have served two terms.

The first membership dues were $30 a year.

The Society began its first health care policy advocacy activities in 1976 when Dr. Baum contacted Congress and the FDA about the Parke Davis Company discontinuing production of Vasopressin. There was also a directive from the Social Security Administration that catheters and guidewires should be for a one time use only.

In 1976, the founding members welcomed the first new members into the Society. The ten new members were: Drs. Scott Boley, Harvey Goldstein, Eugene Jacobson, Vincent Chuang, Donald Harrington, Richard Kittridge, Francis Ruzicka, Arthur Waltman, Thomas Sos, and Warren Widrich.

The first Society bylaws limited the membership to a maximum of 75 individuals.

Dr. Renate Soulen served as program chair for the Society's 1978 Annual Meeting. Twenty years later her son, Dr. Michael Soulen, served as scientific program chair for the 1998 Annual Meeting.

Of the Society's 48 founding fellows,

• 45 were male
• 3 were female
• 10 have served as president of the Society

First SCVIR Corporate Members - SCVIR instituted a corporate member category in 1988. Our first corporate member partners, who became official in June 1988, were:

• Cook Incorporated
• Devices for Vascular Intervention, Inc.
• Inrad
• Life Sciences, Inc.
• Mallinckrodt, Inc.
• Meadox Surgimed, Inc.
• Medi-Tech, Inc.
• Nitinol Medical Technologies, Inc.
• Spectranetics
• Target Therapeutics
• Terumo Corporation
• Vena-Tech Corporation