He Took Leprosy Patients In Hand to End Stigma

The physician-scientist contributed to advances in understanding and treating the ailment also known as Hansen’s disease

- BY JENNIFER LATSON

Through much of the 20th century, Americans with leprosy were forced to live out their lives in isolation at the National Leprosarium—later called the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s disease Center—in Louisiana, which initially functioned more like a maxi