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New England Society for Vascular Surgery
By 1973 it was clear that more had to be done to generate more vascular surgeons. In the summer of that year, Drs. Robert R. Linton, R. Clement Darling, Jr. of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Ralph A. Deterling, Jr. of the New England Medical Center agreed that the influence of the national societies and medical centers needed to be expanded by creating regional societies that could reach much larger numbers of surgeons to help them advance their knowledge and skill. In this way, the New England Society for Vascular Surgery (NESVS), the first regional vascular society in the country, was founded. Several meetings were held and the group of charter members grew to twenty by the end of the year. That number grew to 37 members, from all six New England states, by the first annual meeting at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, in 1974. Since then, the meetings have been held in conjunction with the New England Surgical Society in various New England and eastern Canadian convention sites. In that period, the NESVS steadily grew to a membership well over 100, was fiscally stable, and held annual meetings of steadily increasing breadth and quality whose papers enjoyed a high rate of publication, first in the JAMA Archives of Surgery, and then, by 1988, the Journal of Vascular Surgery.
By the meeting of September 1998, in Toronto, the Society looked back with a feeling of achievement, gratification, and pride at its first twenty-five years, with determination that the next twenty-five will be just as successful.
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