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• November 2007: Perspectives of teledermatology involvement in the aspect of International Society of Teledermatology activity:  Perspektywy rozwoju teledermatologii w aspekcie dzialalnosci Miêdzynarodowego Towarzystwa Teledermatologii
  by Grazyna Kamiñska-Winciorek  in the Polish Journal "Dermatologica"
  The author writes about aims and ways of activity of International Society of Teledermatology, main events and congresses concerned with teledermatology and telemedicine ( 1st Congress of ISTD in Graz in 2006, teledermatological session in Vienna during EADV symposium) and the telederm.org platform for everybody.
   
• Here you find a report from 1st International Congress of Teledermatology, which was published in the oldest Polish dermatological journal Przegląd Dermatologiczny. (Polish language)
   
• May 16, 2007: 4th Official Meeting of the International Society of TeleDermatology
  The ISTD is steadily growing with nearly 400 members now. TeleDermatology is now for the first time extensively mentioned in de program of the EADV congress. Jayakar Thomas & Parimalam Kumar on behalf of the Indian Society of Teledermatology (INSTED) are offering to organise the 2nd Congress in Chennai, India from October 16. - 18. 2008. Read the meeting minutes for details
  Here you also find some photos of the meeting!
   
• 2nd Worldcongress Of TeleDermatology:  115 colleagues from 32 countries all over the world have attended the 1st World Congress of the ISTD in Graz. So far, the meeting is very successful and lively. Presentations are of excellent quality. Candidates so far for the 2nd World Congress of the ISTD are Chennai (formerly Madras) in India and Amsterdam in The Netherlands. The Executive Board will ask members to propose their candidacy. A decision will be made in spring 2007.
   
• November 9, 2006: 3rd Official Meeting of the International Society of TeleDermatology
  Election of the Board 2006 - 2007: It is generally accepted that: H. Peter Soyer (Graz, Austria) succeeds Peter Elsner (Jena, Germany) as president Leonard Witkamp (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) succeeds H. Peter Soyer as vice-president Gerald Gabler (Graz, Austria) remains in the function as secretary and Regina Fink-Puches (Graz, Austria) remains treasurer. Josep Malvehy (Barcelona, Spain) remains auditor and David Ramirez (Seville, Spain) suc-ceeds Gabriel Yihune (Heidelberg, Germany) as auditor. The ISTD wants to keep its international independent character and will therefore remain as a separate international society, however, with close contact with liaison officers for the Ameri-can Telemedicine Association (liaison officer: Karen McKoy), American Academy of Derma-tology (Karen McKoy) and European Academy of Dermatology (liaison officer: Gregor Jemec) Further cooperation with the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) repre-sented by Frank Lievens) will be explored by the Executive Board.
  The general assembly thanks Peter Elsner for his efforts and work for the society.

Archive

• 2004:
  Massone C, Hofmann-Wellenhof R, Gabler G,Dong H, Kaddu S, Di Stefani A, Zalaudek I, Argenziano G, Soyer HP
  Global Teledermatology: A specific dermatologic web application for Dermatological Consultation Internet Health 2004;3(1):e3
  URL: www.internet-health.org/ih200431e03.html