Spanish Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery / Sociedad Espanola de Angiologia y Cirugia Vascular (SEACV)

The Spanish Society of Angiology , under that name, was founded in 1959 and its first president was Dr. D. Fernando Martorell Otzet. Later it was renamed the Spanish Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery ( SEACV). In the 70's, a commission formed by Drs. Alonso, Capdevilla, Martorell, Rodriguez Arias and Zaldúa, was in charge of obtaining the official recognition of the Specialty, preparing a report to present it to the Authorities of the then Ministries of Health and Education. Thus began a long pilgrimage from office to office, from report to counter-report, which ended satisfactorily in 1978. Royal Decree 2015/1978 definitively supported the creation of the specialty in Peripheral Vascular Surgery (Angiology), after which the current denomination (Angiology and Vascular Surgery) by the National Council of Medical Specialties. In the same year 1978 the first National Congress of Angiology and Vascular Surgery was held in Madrid, presiding over its Organizing Committee Dr. Paredero del Bosque, almost a quarter of a century after the first Angiological Spanish Workshops (Valencia, 1955). In commemoration of this event, the XLVI Spanish Angiological Conference was held in Madrid in 2006, coinciding with the National Congress.