2008 - 35th ANNUAL MEETING - SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
SYPHILIS AFTER 1860: PART II
 
Co-chairmen - Lawrence Parish / Daniel Wallach
Program Director - Eve J Lowenstein
JANUARY 31, 2008 - Thursday

10 AM - Tour and Lecture -  The Alamo, 300 Alamo Plaza

12 PM - Luncheon Session - Hotel Valencia Riverwalk, 150 East Houston Street

1:30 PM - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM - Hotel Valencia Riverwalk, 150 East Houston Street
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Welcome - Lawrence Parish
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ETIOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS - Moderator: Eve Lowenstein
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  19th century ideas of causation - Jesleen Ahluwalia
  Dermato-Venerological heritage of Slovakia - Mária Grófová
  Another Judeo-Viennese MD-trio at the bicentennial of the oldest: the Seligmann brothers - Karl Holubar
  The great imitator - Mohamed Amer
  Syphiliform pyoderma (piodermitis chancriforme Covisa and Bejarano) - Joaquin Calap Calatayud
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TREATMENT – PART 1 - Moderator: Daniel Wallach
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  Ehrlich’s 606 - Mark Valentine
  Neoarsphenamine - Kaleroy Tzezaildis
  Herxheimer reaction - Natalie Curcio
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Discussion - Larry Millikan
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TREATMENT – PART 2 - Moderator: Lawrence Charles Parish
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  Syphilis and racism: Tuskegee experiment - Geeta Patel
  Penicillin discovered (up to 1943) - Robert Norman
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PREVENTION - Moderator: Anthony Benedetto
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  World War 1 - Thomas Cropley
  Hollywood does syphilis: a behind-the-scenes look at "Dr. Ehrlich's magic bullet” - Robert Pariser
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TEXTBOOKS AND THE 21ST CENTURY - Moderator: Karl Holubar
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  John Stokes: The great syphilologist - Robert Jackson
  John Stokes as I remember him - James Stokes
  Aids and syphilis - Noah Scheinfeld
  The new resurgence with a paradigm change in screening - Jeanine Daly
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Discussion - John Wolf
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FEBRUARY 1, 2008 - Friday - 7 PM
35th HISTORY OF DERMATOLOGY SOCIETY DINNER - Hotel Valencia Riverwalk, 150 East Houston Street
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COCKTAILS - 7 PM

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LECTURE - 8 PM

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  Samuel J. Zakon Lecture: Lowell Goldsmith - Disorganization of American dermatology during WW II
  Introduction: Thomas Cropley
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DINNER - 9 PM

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  Marion B. Sulzberger Toast – Nikolai Tsankov
  Herman Beerman Toast – Robert Baran
  Poet Laureate – Robert Norman
  28th Samuel J. Zakon Prize in the History of Dermatology – to be announced by Mark C. Valentine