25th Princeton Conference on Cerebrovascular Disease

Abstract

The 25th Princeton Conference on Cerebrovascular Disease was held in Portland, Oregon, from May 19th to the 20th, 2006. This was the 50th year of this biannual meeting first held from January 24th to the 26th, 1954, in Princeton, New Jersey. Jim Toole recalled that the location and month of the Conference were selected to be remote enough and the weather inhospitable enough to insure maximum, continuous involvement by the participants in the meeting. The first 11 meetings were held in Princeton. Irving Wright, Professor of Clinical Medicine at Cornell University Medical School, was the Chairman of the first Conference. He had introduced the use of coumadin into medicine and directed the first major trial on oral anticoagulation (in acute myocardial infarction). Wright noted that with “considerable difficulty” he was able to find 38 physicians and scientists with a …