Latin American Diabetes Association / Asociacion Latinoamericana de Diabetes (ALAD)

The Latin American Diabetes Association was created in August 1970, at the VIl Congress of the International Diabetes Federation in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Very quickly Their countries were integrated, with its first Congress in Montevideo in 1972 and without stopping it opened its arms to shelter professionals from every part of Latin America, so that there would be someone in all of them to care for and support people with diabetes

The Story Of Alad:
The initiative to establish an association related to diabetes that would bring together Latin American countries was born from doctors from the River Plate: Argentines and Uruguayans, led by the Argentine physiologist Doctor Bernardo Houssay, possibly accompanied by the teachers Doctor Francisco Roca and Perla Temesio.

The idea was born in meetings of Latin American doctors interested in diabetes in the congresses of the International Diabetes Federation in Geneva (Switzerland, 1961), Toronto (Canada, 1964) and finally, Stockholm (Sweden, 1967).

To advance the idea in the Argentine Diabetes Society, a "Latin American Diabetes Society Subcommittee" was formed, made up of Luis Cardonnet, Néstor Serantes, Bernardo Nusimovich, Ricardo Rodríguez and Maximino Ruiz, since the next world diabetes congress would be held in the Argentine Republic.