Society aims:

¨ Participate in scientific advancement in the field of skin and venereal diseases specialization.

¨ Conduct studies and researches that are necessary for protection against some skin and venereal diseases and development of treatment of malignant diseases, especially endemic, in the Kingdom.

¨ Facilitate the exchange of scientific results between the Association and academic universities in the Kingdom and abroad.

¨ Arrange training courses at advanced centers in the field of latest developments in skin and venereal diseases.

¨ Organize scientific meetings and specialized symposiums, and attend the international symposiums.

¨ Develop the scientific and practical potentiality in the specialization of skin and venereal diseases.

¨ Facilitate the exchange of scientific research results and ideas of the Association′s interest, with other scientific universities and institutions in the Kingdom and abroad.

¨ Conduct studies required for enhancing the performance standard in the related specialization and providing consultancy.

¨ Convene conferences, courses, and study circles for discussing the issues related with the filed in which the Association is interested.

¨ Encourage scientific researches in the field of this specialization and all what is related with other branches of knowledge, and publish the results of those results in the scientific magazines.

¨ Publish a magazine or a periodic scientific bulletin in which the researches and studies of the Association′s interest are published.

¨ Conduct studies and researchers that are necessary for protection against some skin and venereal diseases and development of.

¨ Treatment of malignant diseases, especially endemic, in the Kingdom.

¨ Prepare and organize intensive scientific courses for the trainee doctors in their field of specialization in order to groom them, academically and practically, for fellowship examinations and doctorate degrees in skin and venereal diseases.

¨ Organize scientific activities the purpose of which is to develop the potentialities of the staff in this field.

¨ Develop and support the high specializations in this field.

¨ Provide opportunity to the specialized doctors in the Kingdom and region to submit their studies and result of their researches.

¨ Provide opportunity to new doctors to avail the meets and lectures.

¨ Highlight the specialization of dermatological diseases, explain the developments in researches as well latest aspects of diagnosis and treatment.

The Saudi Society of Dermatology and Venereology (SSDV) was established in the year 1989. In the year 2002, the Saudi Society of Dermatology and Venereology, the name of the society was changed to Saudi Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery.