History of Latin American Dermatology

PAULO R. CUNHAtogether with Dr. Álvaro Schiavi Jr. and Dr. Clarisse Furtado, was a member of the Dermatologycourse until 1989. At present, Dr. Analise Roskamp Budel is in charge of theservice.The Mayoralty’s treatment network and the State’s network are interconnected, seeingnearly a thousand patients per month. Paraná also has the Service of the Holy Houseof Mercy, PUC, as a certified service, with Dr. Luiz Carlos Pereira as Head of Service.Gaúchos in DermatologyDr. Ernst von Bassewitz, a German who graduated in Berlin in 1890, was the firstphysician in Rio Grande do Sul to practice in the specialized field of Dermatology. Aftervisiting São Paulo, he arrived in 1894 at the gaúcho (local horseman) flats of Rio Grandedo Sul, and worked in remote coastal and rural locations. In 1927, in the Rio Grande doSul’s Medical Annals, he published a report on the incidence of leprosy in the Germancolony.The first professor of Dermatology and Syphilology of the Porto Alegre MedicalSchool, created in 1898, was Dr. Modesto José de Souza, succeeded by Dr. Rodolfo Masson,and afterwards, through public selection, by Dr. Ulisses de Nonohay, who was alsoto participate in the revolutionary contingent that marched on Rio de Janeiro withGetúlio Vargas.In 1942, the Official Course on Clinical Dermatology and Syphilology was created atthe Porto Alegre Medical School, headed by José Gerbase, from Alagoas, a disciple ofRamos e Silva. In 1946, Prof. Clóvis Bopp, lecturer since 1959 with the thesis “Chromoblastomycosis:Contribution to its Study,” also joined. In 1992, Prof. Lúcio Bakos wasappointed full professor of Dermatology of Rio Grande do Sul’s Federal University, alsothrough public competition.Medical SciencesThe Porto Alegre Federal Medical School Foundation was created in 1960 with thename of Catholic Medical School, alsongside the Brotherhood of the Holy House of Mercy.Four years later, Prof. Enio Candiota de Campos, an outstanding teacher and scientist,was appointed first Head of the Chair of Dermatology, together with Professors AchylesHemb, Gisela Del Pino and Aída Schafranski. Following the death of the former, the leadershipwas taken over by Prof. Dr. Armin Bernhard, and, subsequently, by Prof. CláudioBartelle.The Foundation’s Dermatology Service is located at the hospital complexes of Porto Alegre’sHoly House, where the syllabus and the graduate course are taught to residents andstudents. It has Érika Geier, Walmor Bonatto, Renan Bonamigo, Irene Menezes, AídaSchafranski, Carolina Feijó and Raquel García as professors, as well as other collaborators.The RGSFU ServiceThe Dermatology Service of Porto Alegre’s Hospital das Clínicas has three RGSFU professors:one a full professor, Lúcio Bakos, and two associates: Tânia Cestari and Luiz FernandoBopp Muller. It also has five dermatology doctors; Ane K. Simões Pires, Isabel C.P. Kuhl, Márcia S. Zampese, Marlene L. Weissbluth and Mirian Pargendler, two residentsand three students, in addition to two Master’s students and one Ph.D. Student per year.Besides teaching these courses, the members of the Service devote themselves to treatmentand research (strongly encouraged at all levels).Considered as an AIDS referral center for Rio Grande do Sul, the Dermatology Serviceof Porto Alegre’s CH has a digital dermatoscopy area, with video-dermatoscopy andimage-analysis, and a phytotherapy and photobiology area, to treat photosensitive patients.It also has a Public Health area, since it receives doctors provided by the HealthSecretariat who work on AIDS, STDs and hanseniasis. The activity is carried out in two106