About

About SCADDS

Our membership is composed of Board-certified or Board-eligible dermatologists from across South Carolina. Residents-in-training are supported by the provision of free registration at all Association-sponsored educational meetings. The Association represents a diverse group of highly skilled and qualified dermatologists, dermatologic surgeons, dermatopathologists and academic researchers from the state’s three major University research institutions. Many are educators involved in the training of young physicians and other medical professionals.

Our Mission Statement:

Advance the practice of dermatology in South Carolina through education, advocacy, and excellence in patient care.

Our History

The South Carolina Dermatological Association was originally formed via a conference telephone call in October, 1970 with its first meeting held on October 18, 1970 at the Ramada Inn in Columbia, South Carolina.

The first president was Dick Allison and the first secretary-treasurer was Barbara Brown. Dick Crooks was elected to represent the SCDA at the Blue Cross/Blue Shield meeting the next month for the purpose of setting up fee schedules for dermatologists.

They met again in December at the American Academy of Dermatology meeting. For the next few years the meetings were held at the Carolinas-Virginia meetings. In 1973, it was decided that the president would represent the SCDA at the Academy meeting each year.

The membership of the fledgling organization was growing rapidly, so it was decided to move the meeting to the spring for the year 1974. The first constitution was adopted with dues set at ten dollars per year. Dr. Charles Graber was our first guest lecturer that year.

Very early, case presentations and guest lecturers came to be a significant and enjoyable means of sharing clinical observations and meeting the “movers and shakers” in a comfortable, relaxed setting.

The SCDA membership has continued to grow with the population of South Carolina. Our educational meetings occur each year and the Association continues to serve its mission of uniting the state’s dermatologists for the advancement of dermatology and dermatology medical education.

In April of 2015 the South Carolina Dermatological Association membership voted to change its name to the South Carolina Academy of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery.

SCADDS Officers

President     James Petit, MD
President Elect     Laura Winterfield, MD
Vice President     Renee D Straub, MD
Secretary-Treasurer     Laura Winterfield, MD
Member at Large     Lara Wine Lee, MD
Representative from Low Country     Rachel E. Hill, MD
Representative from Midlands     Hunter W. Burch, MD
Representative from Upstate     Catherine Roach, MD
Executive Director     April Koon

Leadership History

Year Served     President     Secretary-Treasurer
2022-2023     Renee D Straub, MD     James Petit, MD
2021-2022     Anne H. LeClercq, MD     Renee D Straub, MD
2020-2021     Nathan P. Jones, MD     Anne H. LeClercq, MD
2019-2020     Nathan P. Jones, MD     Anne H. LeClercq, MD
2018-2019     Ann Harriott Ervin, MD     Nathan P. Jones, MD
2017-2018     Marshall J. Shuler, MD     Ann Harriott Ervin, MD
2016-2017     Robert S. Purvis, MD     Marshall J. Shuler, MD
2015-2016     Matthew L. Miller, MD     Robert S. Purvis, MD
2014-2015     Angela Hutcheson, MD     Matthew L. Miller, MD
2013-2014     Richard E. White, MD     Angela Hutcheson, MD
2012-2013     James R. DeBloom, II, MD     Richard E. White, MD
2011-2012     Brian C. Leach, MD     James DeBloom, MD
2010-2011     Timothy G. Woodall, MD     Edward A. Kotz, MD
2009-2010     Scott Miller, MD     Timothy G. Woodall, MD
2008-2009     Peter J. Neidenbach, MD     Scott Miller, MD
2007-2008     Todd Schlesinger, MD     Peter Neidenbach, MD
2006-2007     Marta Hampton, MD     Dina Grice, MD
2005-2006     P. Lane Latham, MD     Peter Neidenbach, MD
2004-2005     Mark Blaskis, MD     Stephanie Smith-Philips, MD
2003-2004     Bruce Thiers, MD     Lane Latham, Jr., MD
2002-2003     Gene Burges, MD     Mark Blaskis, MD
2001-2002     John Maize, MD     Karen DeVore, MD
2000-2001     Jim Chow, MD     Gregg Colle, MD
1999-2000     Bud Thompson, MD     Marta Hampton, MD
1998-1999     Lawrence Klein, MD     Jim Chow, MD
1997-1998     Tricia Westmoreland, MD     Lawrence Klein, MD
1996-1997     Oswald L. Mikell, MD     Gene E. Burges, MD
1995-1996     Carl Johnson, MD     William McWilliams, MD
1994-1995     Pearon Lang, MD     Bruce Thiers, MD
1993-1994     Hudson Rogers, MD     Alina Pacult, MD
1992-1993     Howard Robinson, MD     Carl Johnson, MD
1991-1992     John Humeniuk, MD     Tricia Westmoreland, MD
1990-1991     Frank Boysia, MD     Peggy Fitch, MD
1989-1990     Sam Stafford, MD     Hudson Rogers, MD
1988-1989     Lin Bradford, MD     Bud Thompson, MD
1987-1988     Pierre Jaffe, MD     Howard Robinson, MD
1986-1987     Ken Warrick, MD     Sam Stafford, MD
1985-1986     Charles West, MD     John Humeniuk, MD
1984-1985     Fred McElveen, MD     Lin Bradford, MD
1983-1984     George Stretcher, MD     Sam Pratt, MD
1982-1983     Gene Cutler, MD     Frank Boysia, MD
1981-1982     Larry Jetton, MD     Sandra Lamberson, MD
1980-1981     Billy Tate, MD     Ken Warrick, MD
1979-1980     John Latham, MD     Larry Jetton, MD
1978-1979     Tommy Griffin, MD     George Stretcher, MD
1977-1978     Abe Robinson, MD     Fred McElveen, MD
1976-1977     Roy Nickles, MD     Billy Tate, MD
1975-1976     Ken Smith, MD     Joe Moore, MD
1974-1975     Falls Harris, MD     Charles West, MD
1973-1974     Kathleen Riley, MD     Roy Nickles, MD
1972-1973     Dick Crooks, MD     Tommy Griffin, MD
1970-1972     Dick Allison, MD     Barbara Brown, MD