Dear friends and colleagues!

It is my great honor to organize the 18th Congress of Baltic Association of Dermatovenerologists (BADV) in Riga, capital of Latvia, on September 22-24, 2022.

Given current unpredictable situation with Covid-19, the congress will be held as hybrid, in order to allow participants to attend both on-site or remotely via Zoom platform.

Congress program is built to encourage discussion of broad spectrum of scientifically important issues in dermatovenerology, including widespread dermatological problems, skin cancers, cosmetic dermatology, STI related topics and more. Given presentations of well-known professors, scientists and medicine doctors is going to describe significant discoveries in scientific as well as practical dermatovenerological field.

We have invited top dermatovenerologists from all over the world to take part as speakers and leading pharmaceutical companies to organize symposiums and demonstrate their production at the exhibition. Therefore I am confident that the program of 18th Congress of BADV is going to be realized in an outstanding way!

Congress will give you the opportunity to obtain new information about possibilities in diagnostics, therapy and prevention of the diseases, also to meet new friends and potential colleagues and cooperation partners. The experience gained definitely will be useful for every attendant’s further professional and academic work.

I believe every speaker and participant will enjoy Riga, especially the Old town, and its autumn charm, in their free time.

Kind regards,

Andris Rubins, MD, PhD
President of 18th BADV Congress
Professor and Chairman, University of Latvia, Dept. of Dermatovenerology
President of Latvian and Baltic associations of Dermatovenerologists (LDVA, BADV)
Ambassador of the 25th World Congress of Dermatology (Singapore, 2023)