Lajos Sándor Nékám or Louis Nékám is a Hungarian dermatologist who was born on June 4, 1868 and died on January 29, 1957.
Lajos Sándor Nékám was a full professor of dermatology at the University of Budapest. Nekam received his dermatological training at the major medical centers of the time in Vienna (M. Kaposi, I. Neumann and the pathologist S. Stricker) and Berlin (J. Lesser and R. Virchow). Nekam cooperated with the French dermatologists Besnier, Brocq, Fournier and Hallopeau in Paris and with Hutchinson and Crocker in London. In 1889, at the age of 30, he was appointed to the Chair of Dermatology in Budapest, where he worked for 40 years. In 1930 he was appointed rector of the University of Budapest.
Nekam published around 120 scientific papers, including the cutaneous manifestations of myeloid leukemia.
He also dealt with Darier's disease, keratosis lichenoides chronica (Nekam's disease) and the various forms of poikiloderma.
His multi-volume work "Corpus Iconicum Morborum Cutacneorum" with around 4500 clinical illustrations was internationally renowned.