History of Latin American Dermatology

PAULO R. CUNHA(1988); Luiz Henrique C. Paschoal (1989); Orcanda Andrade Patrus(1990); Antonio Carlos Pereira Junior (1991); Jesús RodríguesSantamaría (1992); José Eduardo Costa Martins (1993); ArivalCardoso de Brito (1994); Sarita Martins (1995); Iphis Campbell(1996); Clarisse Zaitz (1997); Alberto Eduardo Cox Cardoso(1998); Maurício Mota de Avelar Alchorne (1999); Bernardo Gontijo(2000); Fernando Augusto de Almeida (2001) (Figure 8) andMárcio Rutowitsch (2003), Sinésio Talhari (2005).In the 1990s, three women presided the Brazilian Society ofDermatology: Orcanda Andrade Patrus (1990-1991), Sarita Martins(1995-1996) and Clarisse Zaitz (1997-1998).Figure 8. GoverningBoard SBD (2000-01):Let to right (seated):María Lourdes Viegas,general secretary;Fernando Augusto deAlmeida, president;Márcio SantosRutowitsch, vicepresident.Standing:Macedo Paschoal,second secretary;Beatriz Moritz Trope,treasurer, and PauloRowilson, secretaryThe BSD’s headquarters. The Brazilian Annals of Dermatology.The library. The first congressIn 1932, the BSD, together with various areas of the Dermatology and SyphilologyClinic, was moved to the St. Michael Ward, where, on October 20, 1933, the library of theClinic was inaugurated. By the mid-twentieth century, this library was already consideredto be the repository of the largest legacy of the specialized field in Latin America. In1987, René Garrido Neves reached the Presidency of the BSD with a mission: to providethe entity with its own premises, which were purchased on Nilo Peçanha Avenue, leavingbehind the old St. Michael Ward location.The first issue of the bimonthly journal Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia (BrazilianAnnals of Dermatology) had Eduardo Rabello as editor in chief, in 1925 (Figure 9).In 1985 the BSD Newsletter reappeared, replaced in 1996 by the Jornal DermatologíaAtual, larger in size, and, finally, by the BSD Journal.From September 26th to 28th, 1944 the first meeting of Brazilian specialists inSyphilographic Dermatosis took place, at the St. Michael Ward, of Rio de Janeiro’s HolyHouse of Mercy; starting in 1969, these meetings were called Congresses (Figure 10).The fiftieth anniversary of the BSDCommemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the BSD in 1962, under the presidency ofRubem David Azulay, a public statement of recognition for the expansion of Dermatologyin all of Brazil took place, and the road was thus left open for physicians from otherStates to occupy the Presidency. Another outstanding event of the decade was the appointmentof Ramos e Silva as a member of the ICD (International Committee of Dermatology).Later, Antar Padilha-Gonçalves, Sebastião Sampaio and Márcia Ramos e Silvawere also appointed members of the ICD.In 1971, during the Brazilian Congress of Dermatology carried out in Porto Alegre,under the presidency of Clóvis Bopp, the scope of action of the BSD became larger, totake care of the ethical, social and economic interests of Brazilians dermatologists. Boppwas also the main organizer of the regional meetings called “Southern Lines of BrazilianDermatology,” currently called “South-Brazilian Sessions,” which gather specialists fromRio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná.The ninetieth anniversary of the BSDThe commemoration of the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the BSD correspondedto its elected president at that time, Prof. Fernando Augusto de Almeida, outstandingspecialist whose PhD thesis at SPU was on “Hebra’s pruritus,” and is one of the86