Dr Stephen I. Katz Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases National Institutes of Health Bldg. Rules and regulations approved in 1957. Incorporated in Liechtenstein in 1990. Executive Council of ICD meets twice a year.
Various committees meet as necessary.
Both Centres are designed to train non-physician health providers. A third Regional Dermatology Training Centre is under development in francophone Africa. The ILDS provides liaison and communication services linking dermatological societies throughout the world and assists sponsoring countries in the organization and programming of the quinquennial World Congresses of Dermatology. Administrative newsletter published at least twice a year. With the Regional Offices for Africa and the Americas it maintained its support for regional training centres in United Republic of Tanzania and Guatemala, and commenced the establishment of such a centre in French-speaking West Africa.