History of Latin American Dermatology

ROBERTO ARENAS1976-1979 Rubem David Azulay (Brazil).1980-1983 Jorge Abulafia (Argentina).1984-1987 Jorge Abulafia (Argentina).1988-1991 Sebastião Sampaio (Brazil).1992-1995 Enrique Hernández Pérez (El Salvador).1996-1999 Ana Kaminsky (Argentina).2000-2003 Francisco Camacho Martínez (Spain).2003-2007 Roberto Arenas (Mexico).PRESIDENTS OF THE CONGRESSES1. Rio de Janeiro (1950), João de Aguiar Pupo.2. Madrid (1953), José Gay Prieto.3. Mexico D.F (1956), Fernando Latapí.4. Lisbon (1959), Augusto Salazar-Leite.5. Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata (1963), Luis E. Pierini.6. Barcelona (1967), José Mercadal-Peyrí.7. Caracas (1971), Martín Vegas.8. San Salvador (1975), Oswaldo Ramírez.9. Medellín (1979), Alonso Cortés.10. Rio de Janeiro (1983), Rubem D. Azulay.11. Madrid (1987), Antonio García-Pérez y Antonio Ledo.12. Guadalajara (1991), José Barba Rubio.13. San Juan, Puerto Rico (1995), Jorge L. Sánchez.14. Málaga (1999), Miguel Armijo and Enrique Herrera-Ceballos.15. Buenos Aires (2003), Ana Kaminsky.16. Cartagena (2005) Rafael Falabella.At the Lisbon Congress in 1959, the magazine that constitutes the Association’s officialorgan was launched: Ibero-Latin American Dermatology (Dermatología Ibero-Latino-Americana, DILA), headed by Augusto Salazar Leite and Francisco Da Cruz Sobral, GeneralSecretary For Life of the Association, under whose editorship the magazine lasted 14years. In 1966, Cutaneous Medicine (Medicina Cutánea, Joaquín Piñol Aguadé) waslaunched independently. In 1973, the two magazines merged and gave rise to Ibero-LatinAmerican Cutaneous Medicine (Medicina Cutánea Ibero-Latino-Americana, Med CutanIber Lat Am) 5 . Prof. José María Mascaró started out in the editorial office in 1967 and remainedat its head for 28 years 6 ; he was followed by Prof. Mario Lecha and, as deputyeditor, Carlos Ferrándiz Foraster, later replaced by Juan Ferrando; Ramón Grimalt andJosé M. Mascaró Galy collaborate in the editorial work. For many years, secretarial workand editorial coordination have been in the hands of Carmen Marcos. In 2004, in volume32, Alberto Woscoff and Jayme de Oliveira Filho joined as associate editors.Ibero-Latin American Cutaneous Medicine is CILAD’s official organ; it is a bimonthlypublication and it is issued in three languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English; it is publishedin color and has an on-line version on its web page: .In 2004 there also appeared a Newsletter (InfoCILAD) and an institutional address:.Over the course of time Cutaneous Medicine has modernized its format and content.It currently includes the following sections: Editorial, Originals, Clinical cases, Specializedsections, Satellite symposium, History of Ibero-Latin American Dermatology, Information,Letters to the Editor (handled by Mauricio Goihman), Therapeutic Updates (LeónJaimovich) and Ongoing medical training (launched in 1996 with Rafael Falabella). ■September 2004434