title: Formative years of the Urodynamics Society: reminiscences.
abstract: This paper traces the roots and foundations of the Urodynamics Society as a scientific urologic research society back to the postwar information explosion of the 1950s and 1960s. It describes the then-separate islands of science and urologic practice which gradually became amalgamated through interdisciplinary and crossprofessional collaborations and networks, aided by generous government subsidies and wise university policies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boyarsky
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D014563:Urodynamics; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history