History of Latin American Dermatology

ELBIO FLORES-CEVALLOS, LUIS FLORES-CEVALLOS, ZUÑO BURSTEINwhich has granted him, in 2004, the Honorific Title of “Master of National Dermatology.”He is member of the Ibero-Latin American Association of Dermatology (CILAD).Figure 21. Dr. EldaCanadellElda Canadell 15Born in Buenos Aires in 1934, she graduated as a Doctor in 1958 at the UBA MedicalSchool. She completed her Dermatology training at the Chair of the Ramos Mejía Hospital,with Dr. Marcial Quiroga. She obtained Peruvian nationality through marriage, recertifyingher professional Surgical Doctor degree at the National Higher University of St.Mark; subsequently, she obtained the degree of Specialist in Dermatology, becoming oneof the initiators and exponents of Cosmetic Dermatology in Peru (Figure 21).Thanks to the certificates granted by Professor Quiroga, she was accepted in ProfessorAurelio Loret de Mola’s Chair, where she became Head of Internships, and the firstwoman dermatologist to teach.In 1962, she was part of the group of founding professors of the Cayetano Heredia PeruvianUniversity, and began working academically at the Medical School of that teachinginstitution.In 1972, she was invited to be part of the group of St. Mark University lecturers, firstas Assistant Professor, and subsequently as Associate Professor, in Professor AizicCotlear’s Chair.Doctor Canadell, a greatly devoted educator, is tutor of Pediatrics Residents in thespecialized field of Dermatology at the Pediatrics Department of Hospital Area No. 6 ofCallao and at the Children’s Hospital, for the National Higher University of St. Mark andthe Federico Villarreal University.She has participated in many courses as well as national and international congresses,including those organized by Lima’s Peruvian Society of Dermatology and by its Arequipabranch, by the Peru Female Medical Association, and by the Peruvian Society of Pathologists.She has also participated in the medical contests of the Pan-American MedicalWomen’s Alliance: in those of the Peruvian Association of Cosmetic Chemistry; in the FirstArgentine Medical Congress, and in various Symposia and Seminaries of CILAD-PERÚ.Since 1963, she is an active member of the Ibero-Latin American Association of Dermatology(CILAD). She was also one of the founders of the Peruvian Society of Dermatology.She is the author of various articles in specialized papers and journals, and of somechapters of the book, Updates in Therapeutics, and of the Dermatology Handbook, bothpublished by the National Higher University of St. Mark.Alejandro Morales 17Dr. Morales is a dermatologist, born in Trujillo, Peru, in 1933. In 1959, he obtainedthe degree of Surgical Doctor at the National Higher University of St. Mark. He completedhis graduate specialization studies at the Henry Ford Hospital (Detroit), where he alsocompleted his internship and residency in Internal Medicine, between 1959 and 1961,and a residency in Dermatology, from 1961 a 1964. He carried out Dermatopathologystudies with Dr. G. Pinkus (Michigan), from 1964 to 1965.Dr. Morales is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, since 1965, and ofthe American Academy of Dermatopathology, since 1976, having been certified with theAmerican Board of Dermatology and with the American Board of Dermatopathology.From 1965 to 1971, he joined Professor Cotlear’s Dermatology School at the UNSMMedical School as Associate Professor of Dermatology, having been a member of the specializationin Dermatology committee of that University in 1974. He was Associate Professorof Clinical Medicine at Michigan University in 1978, 1980, 1982 and 1984.In his treatment work, he was Associate at the Dermatology Department of Detroit’sHenry Ford Hospital from 1975 to 1980, and Vice-Chairman of that same Departmentfrom 1981 to 1984.326