SID - Society for Investigative Dermatology 73rd Annual Meeting

The Society for Investigative Dermatology was born out of a vision to serve a segment of science previously unrepresented by the medical societies of the United States: Investigative Dermatology. The founders saw a need for an organization with a devotion to cutaneous investigation, rather than clinical work, and to promote investigative dermatology to a fully respected position among the medical specialties. In tandem with the establishment of the society, they sought to develop a new scientific journal that would act as a singular resource for investigative work in cutaneous biology.

Previously, this research had been scattered among the non-dermatology journals and had largely been completed outside the specialty of investigative dermatology. This vision was realized when the SID was founded, bylaws were adopted and a board of nine directors was appointed on June 10, 1937 at the Hotel Dennis in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Journal of Investigative Dermatology (JID) was launched, with Marion B. Sulzberger as its first editor, and the first Annual Meeting was held in April 1938 in New York City.