Silver for the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology-SCVP Turns 25.
It is 25 years since the inception of the society in 1985! Conceived in a conference room on the 6th floor of the Medical Sciences Building at the University of Toronto, the Society was officially born the following year at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) meeting. Since then, the Society has flourished. Educationally, it has been achieving its aims and goals, meeting annually at the USCAP and holding symposia of its own, and in conjunction with the USCAP. In the early years, the Society had an additional meeting at the American Heart Association. However, this was not very productive and was soon canceled. In the last 3 years, the Society has been putting on its own additional symposia on the Saturday evening preceding the USCAP annual meeting. These have covered contemporary topics and have been very successful under the able stewardship of Professor Gaetano Thiene. One of the early objectives of the society was to have a regular publication of its own, geared to the study of cardiovascular pathology. Initially, this function was served by Cor Notes. In a few years, the Society launched its own journal with a lot of the work done by the founding Editor, Dr. Stephen Factor, and the Publications committee chaired by Dr Fred Schoen. We are indebted to them for bringing the journal to the stage of being indexed in Index Medicus. Our publishers have been a consistent and constant help in advancing cardiovascular pathology and in publishing materials related to the science. We, the current Editors-in-Chief, Drs. Avrum Gotlieb and Jagdish Butany, are proud of the opportunity offered us by the Society to become the second CoEditors-in-Chief of the journal. The journal has grown and continues to grow with an impact factor which is now an honorable 1.9. It is our hope that the journal will continue to grow.