The First President of the ISSVD, Guillermo R. di Paola, MD, PhD gave the following Founder's lecture in Queenstown, New Zealand on February 22, 2006. It recounts the original history of the ISSVD.
“The Past and the Future of the ISSVD” was presented to the ISSVD by Professor Peter Lynch on September 7, 2011 at the XXI World Congress in Paris, France. We find so much of it still relevant today!