Career

Doctor Opromolla performed all his work at Lauro de Souza Lima Institute in Bauru, São Paulo, a World Health Organization reference hospital for dermatology. He taught dermatology and leprosy to countless doctors, nurses, and other health workers. Among other things, he was the first to introduce rifamycin in the treatment of leprosy, in 1963.

Doctor Opromolla battled gastric cancer for the whole year of 2004 and died on December 15, 2004.