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RUBÉN GUARDA TATÍNphysicians from the RADLA countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Paraguayand Uruguay); (2) RADLA of the Southern Cone 1992 in Santiago (president, Carlos Vera;secretary-general, Mirtha Cifuentes), with 500 doctors attending; (3) RADLA of theSouthern Cone 1997 in Santiago (president, Rubén Guarda; secretary-general, RaúlCabrera), with 950 physicians attending; (4) Congress of ULACETS 1995 in Santiago(president, Blanca Campos; president of the scientific committee, Félix Fich) with 1,800participants from 35 countries. Santiago is preparing to receive a new RADLA in 2006under the presidency of Raúl Cabrera.Other international dermatological events in ChileIn the second half of the twentieth century two cycles of meetings were held betweendermatologists from Argentina (mainly from Cuyo, the Argentine region closest to Santiago)and Chile: (1) the first cycle corresponded to the so-called Andean Meetings of Dermatology,one carried out in Mendoza (1969) and the other in Santiago (1970), proposedby Isidoro Pasmanik and Alberto Torres Cortijo (Mendoza) and organized by the SCDVand the Argentine Society of Dermatology (Cuyo branch), with a significant success forChilean-Argentine brotherhood; (2) the second, longer series corresponded to the socalledTrans-Andean Sessions of Dermatology, which were annual events, with alternatingvenues: Santiago in the fall and Cuyo in spring, between 1989 and 1995, initiallyproposed by Cristóbal Parra (Mendoza) and Rubén Guarda (Santiago) and agreed on betweenthe SCDV and the Cuyo branch of the Argentine Association of Dermatology (NélidaPizzi, Cristóbal Parra, José Leonforte and Elías Bittar). The SCDV put its Fifth Regionbranch in charge of the Chilean responsibility for these Sessions, which saw the massparticipation of dermatologists from Cuyo and Chile.Another series of meetings were the so-called Inter-Andean Sessions, held between1994 and 2000, which brought together the dermatologists of northern Chile, the Argentinesof Salta, the Bolivians of La Paz and Cochabamba and the Peruvians of the south(Arequipa, Cuzco and Tacna), as well as several from Santiago and Lima. They were fosteredby Juan Pedro Lonza and other dermatologists of northern Chile and backed byJuan Honeyman (Santiago), Fernando Magill and Emilio Carranza (Lima), with a largenumber of attendees. The meetings held were four: Iquique 1994, Cuzco 1996,Cochabamba 1998 and Salta 2000. ■October 2005■ ReferencesHevia Parga H. Roberto Jaramillo:obituario. Rev Chil Dermatol.1989;5:88-89.Klein Kohn O. Historia de laDermatología chilena: unaversión personal[monografía]. LaboratoriosVichy; 1999.Lama, R. Dr. Gastón RamírezBravo: nota necrológica. RevChil Dermatol. 1996;12:60.Maira ME, Margozzini J. Historiadel Servicio de Dermatología.En: Braghetto I, Korn O.editores. Historia del HospitalClínico de la Universidad deChile. Hospital Clínico de laUniversidad de Chile; 2002.p. 309-332.Ramírez Bravo G. El profesorRoberto Jaramillo Bruce:semblanzas. Rev ChilDermatol. 1989;5:87.COMPLEMENTARY SOURCESWritten communications: DanielVillalobos, Julia Oroz e IsabelMoreno.Oral communications: RogerLamas, Isidoro Pasmanik,Raúl Alarcón, Julita Cofré,Adelaida Tolic, AntonioGuglielmetti, RamónStaforelli, Manuel Melis, FélixFich, Juan Honeyman, JuanPedro Lonza, AlfredoCardemil, Patricio Rifo,Ximena Ancic, María ElsaMaira, Walter Gübelin.