Abstract
33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for International Surgery in cooperation with the Swiss Society of Dermatology and Venereology
Lucerne, Switzerland, 18–20 October 2012
The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Dermatologic Surgery was held in conjunction with the Swiss Society of Dermatology and Venereology, which was also responsible for the scientific organization of this year’s conference. Jürg Hafner, Department of Dermatology, University of Zurich (Switzerland), the current president of the Swiss Society was also the congress president together with Joseph Alcalay, Mohs Surgery Unit, Assuta Medical Center (Tel-Aviv, Israel), the outgoing president of the International Society for Dermatologic Surgery. They were supported by Andreas Skaria, Department of Dermatology, University of Berne (Switzerland) and Kai Munte, Department of Dermatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) who were the responsible persons of the scientific committee. Günter Burg, Professor Emeritus, the chair of Dermatology of Zurich University, Switzerland, was the Honorary Congress President. As is already tradition, the administration and organization was in the hands of Sonja Sattler, Silvia Becker and Karin Schäfer from the International Society for Dermatologic Surgery office in Darmstadt, Germany. More than 130 speakers gave lectures, courses and live demonstrations on virtually all aspects of dermatologic surgery.
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