Leprosy Mailing List – March 26, 2024
Ref.: (LML) In Memoriam: Prof. Enrico Nunzi (1941-2024)
From: Sunil Deepak, Italy
Dear colleagues,
Prof. Enrico Nunzi, who had dedicated his life to the fight against leprosy and in solidarity with the persons affected with this disease, passed away on 1 March 2024.
Enrico had studied medicine from Padua university in Italy and then specialised in dermatology and tropical dermatology. He had started working at Genoa university hospital in 1976 and had become its professor in 1989. In 2012, after his retirement, he had left for a few years at the Catholic university in Loja (Ecuador) where he had continued to provide occasional support till his last days.
Influenced by a meeting with Raoul Follereau, his work in leprosy started soon after his graduation in medicine when he had worked at Nden leprosarium in Cameroun (1967-68) and then at Kimbau hospital in RD Congo (1971-72). In 1973, after his return from Africa, he had become a part of the medical commission of the Italian Leprosy Association AIFO, and in this role had organised regular international conferences on leprosy during 1970s and 80s, known as the Santa Margherita Ligure leprosy meetings. in 1977-78 he was in Amsterdam with Prof. Dick Leiker, who had then visited the leprosy department in Genoa for a period in the 1980s.
Founder of Italian Hansen Disease Doctors' Association (SIHAN) and Italian Inter-Regional Centre for Leprosy Research (CIRLEP), he had written and edited numerous books and articles including the Handbook of leprosy in 2012 (with Prof. Massone) and the Handbook of Leprosy & Buruli Ulcer in 2022 (with Prof. Massone e Portaels).
I had met Enrico at the International Leprosy Congress in Delhi, India in 1986. Along with professional collaborations, he had been a dear friend and I will miss him.
Dr Sunil Deepak
Italy
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