History of Latin American Dermatology

M. MADERO, F. MADERO, G. MONTENEGRO, M. COELLO, C. ARIASand international arena. Two of them have a Medical School: since 1977the Catholic University — where Dr. Claudio Arias was in charge of theChair of Dermatology and Dr. Teodoro Espinosa is currently the Head —and the University of Azuay, which has just created its Medical School in2004 and is taking its first steps in educational activity in the profession.Figure 30. Front viewof the Vicente CorralMoscoso Regional andTeaching HospitalHistorical Profile of the Ecuadorian Societyof Dermatology- Azuay NucleusThe history of the Ecuadorian Society of Dermatology-Azuay Nucleus is worthy of receivinga similar treatment, which would elicit another essay. For the time being, we limitourselves to saying that the Azuay Nucleus was created on February 5, 1971, during thepresidency of the late master of Ecuadorian Dermatology, Prof. Wenceslao OllagueLoayza. He was available for its creation, sponsorship and participation in the Azuay Societyof Pathology 21, 32 (Figure 31).The Nucleus began with the support of the National Society, which was created onMay 15, 1963, in the city of Guayaquil, the renowned master, Prof. Enrique Uraga Peña,being its first president. An important fact to point out is that, at the date it was constituted,Azuayan Dermatology had its representation, within the list of Founding Members,in Drs. Claudio Arias Argudo and the late physician, promoter of leprology in Cuenca, EudoroMoscoso Serrano 22 . The first bylaws became official on June 14, 1978, throughMinisterial Agreement No. 9958; subsequently, during the term of Dr. Jorge Bracho Oñaat the Ministry of Public Health, the Reformed Bylaws of the Ecuadorian Society of Dermatologywere definitively approved on May 26, 1986, through Ministerial AgreementNo. 687 23, 32 . Dr. Claudio Arias was elected as first president of the Azuayan Nucleus ofthe Society; he held that post until 1985, when he was ratified as president of the Nucleusand president of the Third Ecuadorian Congress of Dermatology, held in Cuenca inOctober 1985 21 (Figures 32 and 33).Under the Bylaws, the national headquarters were in the city of Guayaquil, but dueto the approval of the new Bylaws (1986), they acquired a rotating character, passingonto the nucleus that was host to the National Congress 23, 32 .Since 1986, the boards of directors of the Azuay Nucleus have been renovated biannually;up to the present, Drs. Franklin Encalada C., Mauricio Coello U., Marcelo MerchánM., Iván Zéas D., Edgar Reinoso M., Teodoro Espinosa P., and Víctor León Ch. haveheld the presidency 24 .The Azuay Nucleus has participated in all the activities programmed and sponsored bythe National Society, starting with the First Regional Sessions (Triangulars) held inGuayaquil (July 25-28, 1973); the Second Regional Sessions, Guayaquil (April 1976); theThird Regional Sessions, Cuenca (May 17-19, 1979), coinciding with the Ninth NationalMedical Congress 31 (Figure: 34), and culminating with the Fourth Regional Session, Loja(May 25-28, 1983) 21, 22, 24 . Subsequently, in 1980 32 , the Triangulars of Dermatologywere called National Sessions, and have been successfully held every three or four months,in an alternating and now regulated manner, in the cities of Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, towhich the city of Loja has also recently been added (Pre-Nucleus of Loja) 22, 24, 25 .Azuay and Cuenca (in particular) have also had full participation in the main event ofNational Dermatology, the Ecuadorian Congress of the specialized field, which has hadthe support of the CILAD. To date, eleven National Congresses have been successfullyheld since the First Ecuadorian Congress (Guayaquil, July 1981), with Dr. Wilson CorreaB. 28 as national president and president of the Congress. The Second EcuadorianCongress, during the national presidency of Dr. Wenceslao Ollague L., was held in Quito,in November 1983, with the presidency of Dr. Holger Garzón V. The Third EcuadorianCongress was held in Cuenca, from October 9 to 12, 1985, corresponding to the national212