The ESLD was established in 1996 by Leonardo Marini with Peter Bering and some other key world known laser practitioners as a non-profit organisation dedicated to spreading knowledge in the field of lasers and energy-based devices.

Society has been going through some ups and downs, of times of more activities, and other times of a bit more quiet time. Active phase started in 2015, when Dr. Hans Laubach became the president (Dr. Ashraf Badawi vice president). And after that, Dr. Ashraf Badawi started the presidency in 2021.

At the moment Society became visible in the top dermatology conferences around the globe: EADV, AAD, ASLMS, IMCAS and other major conferences where ESLD usually has separate sessions.

In addition to that, Society started conducting teaching courses in different university hospitals in Europe (every six months). Those teaching courses are one of the most successful activities of the ESLD, where we have two days of teaching, usually over Friday and Saturday, where we can accommodate up to 35 attendees and where we have 4 theoretical sessions and 3 hands-on practical sessions and a case presentations with panel discussion as well.

In addition to that, we have the ESLD Thursdays, which are happening on a monthly basis as an online virtual meeting, where we discuss one of the important topics in the field of lasers and energy-based devices and we invite one of the key opinion leaders from all over the world in order to participate in the discussion and the panel discussion.

As a non-profit society, we provide reduced membership fees for postgraduate students and residents of 40 euros per year.

Recently, we had a restructuring in the executive committee of the ESLD and invited some of the young dermatologists as key officers in order to maintain an active spirit of society.