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By Mary Lupo, MD
 t has been a wonderful year as your president, and as I write this message, I am overwhelmed by the speed at which this last year has past. I have had such a wonderful experience and I thank each one of you for the opportunity to guide the Women’s Dermatologic Society to what has been a most successful year.
Our membership numbers are at record levels. Mentorship, medical student awareness, academic research, and career development grant distributions are at all time highs. And through the generous support of L'Oréal, our community outreach programs of Play Safe in the Sun and LPGA Skin Cancer screenings are assured another 3 years of distributing the message of sun protection as our members provide the service of free skin cancer screenings throughout the United States.
 I passed the gavel to Dr Suzanne Connolly at our annual meeting in San Antonio and now find myself musing on what makes the WDS so special. I think it is because of the diversity within it. Coming from New Orleans, such a multi-ethnic and richly cultured, yet relatively small city, I see parallels to WDS.
We in all of dermatology are such a varied assemblage of people and personalities: academic professors, clinical specialists, research experts, and innovative surgical and cosmetic pioneers (somewhat like a New York). Yet, like New Orleans, WDS has all these, but on a smaller scale. Because we are smaller and able to interact regularly and closely with dermatologists of differing sub-specialty interests, each having different perspective and priorities, we learn to appreciate that the strength of our entire specialty is in the richness of our collective experience.
WDS can be a model for our entire specialty of dermatology. By showing the support we give each other, and the respect we give different factions within dermatology, WDS can help the entire community of dermatologists work in cooperation for the greater good.
We have many pressing issues in our specialty: patient access to care, non-physician practice of medicine, adequate insurance and Medicare reimbursement, patient safety, adequate funding of dermatological basic science research, and encroachment into our specialty of untrained physicians are just some of the issues that should unite us as dermatologists.
Let all of us in the WDS continue to work together and forward the missions of WDS, while serving as an example to other larger groups within dermatology that cooperation and respect of each other, professional ethics, and dedication to patients can be the foundation of a strong, focused and unified specialty now and tomorrow.
Mary Lupo, MD
WDS President
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WDS Leadership Through the Years — Past Presidents
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Archive of our President's Messages:
- SPRING 2011 (Diane S. Berson, MD)
- WINTER 2010-2011 (Lisa A. Garner, MD)
- FALL 2010 (Lisa A. Garner, MD)
- SPRING 2010 (Lisa A. Garner, MD)
- SPRING 2010 (Wendy E. Roberts, MD)
- WINTER 2009-2010 (Wendy E. Roberts, MD)
- SUMMER 2009 (Wendy E. Roberts, MD)
- MARCH 2009 (Suzanne Connolly, MD)
- JANUARY 2009 (Suzanne Connolly, MD)
- SEPTEMBER 2008 (Suzanne Connolly, MD)
- APRIL 2008 (Suzanne Connolly, MD)
- FEBRUARY 2008 (Mary Lupo, MD)
- NOVEMBER 2007 (Mary Lupo, MD)
- MAY 2007 (Mary Lupo, MD)
- DECEMBER/JANUARY 2007 (Elizabeth McBurney, MD)
- OCTOBER 2006 (Elizabeth McBurney, MD)
- MAY 2006 (Elizabeth McBurney, MD)
- JANUARY 2006 (Jean Bolognia, MD)
- NOVEMBER 2005 (Jean Bolognia, MD)
- JULY 2005 (Jean Bolognia, MD)
- APRIL 2005 (Jean Bolognia, MD)
- DECEMBER/JANUARY 2005 (Sandra J. Read, MD)
- SEPTEMBER 2004 (Sandra J. Read, MD)
- APRIL 2004 (Sandra J. Read, MD)
- DECEMBER/JANUARY 2004 (Marianne Nelson O'Donoghue, MD)
- APRIL 2003 (Marianne Nelson O'Donoghue, MD)
- FEBRUARY 2003 (Lenore S. Kakita, MD)
- SEPTEMBER 2002 (Lenore S. Kakita, MD)
- MAY 2002 (Lenore S. Kakita, MD)
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