David Biro

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David Biro
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Born1964 (age 56–57)
Brooklyn, New York
OccupationWriter, medical doctor
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
  • University of Pennsylvania (BA)
  • Columbia University (MD)
  • Oxford University (DPhil)
Period2001 to present
Website
www.davidbiro.com

David Eric Biro (born 1964) is an American writer and physician.

Education and academic career[]

Biro was born in 1964,[1] and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended Poly Prep with his three sisters.[citation needed] He received a BA in Classics from University of Pennsylvania.[2] He went on to receive an MD from Columbia University in 1991,[3] and a DPhil in English Literature in 1993 from the University of Oxford.[4]

Biro is an associate clinical professor of Dermatology and Medical Humanities at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn,[5] and a clinical assistant professor of Dermatology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.[3] He teaches general dermatology with a focus on skin cancer.[citation needed]

In the medical humanities, Biro's main areas of expertise are the expressibility of pain,[6] the psychological dimensions of pain,[7] illness narratives, and the patient experience.[8][non-primary source needed]

Writing[]

In 1996, Biro discovered that he had a rare bone marrow disease, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. He was treated by a bone marrow transplant from one of his sisters.[9] He wrote in 2000 about his experience as a patient, and how it changed his work as a doctor, in his first book One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient.[10] He also drew on this experience in his second book, The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, Relief, which discusses the use of language to express pain.[11]

His first work of fiction, The Magnificent Dappled Sea, was published in 2020.

Personal life[]

Biro married fashion executive Daniella Vitale in 1991.[2][12][better source needed]. The couple live in Manhattan with their sons.[13]

Bibliography[]

Books[]

  • Biro, David (2000). One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient. Pantheon. ISBN 0-375-40715-4.[10][12][14]
  • Biro, David (2010). The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-07063-7.[11][15]
  • Biro, David (2020). The Magnificent Dappled Sea. Lake Union. ISBN 978-1542019811.[16]

References[]

  1. ^ Per "Library of Congress authority file".
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "About". David Biro. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "David E. Biro, MD". New York University. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  4. ^ Biro, David Eric (1993). The Rhetoric of Pain: Literary and Theoretical Representations of Bodily Suffering (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  5. ^ "Profile | David Biro, MD, PhD, FAAD". Dermatology Department. SUNY Downstate. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  6. ^ Biro, David (2013). "Chapter 2: When Language Runs Dry: Pain, the Imagination, and Metaphor". In Folkmarson Käll, Lisa (ed.). Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspective. Routledge.
  7. ^ Biro, David (2014). "Chapter 4: Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?". In Bodice, Rob (ed.). Pain and Emotion in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan.
  8. ^ Biro, David (March 2008). "An Anatomy of Illness". Journal of Medical Humanities. 29 (1).
  9. ^ Biro, David. "Silent Bond". The New York Times Magazine.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b "One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient (review)". Kirkus Reviews. December 1, 1999. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Ballantyne, Jane C. (2010). "Talking Pain: Review of The Language of Pain. Finding Words, Compassion, Relief". Pain Medicine. Oxford University Press (OUP). 11 (5): 800. doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00847.x. ISSN 1526-2375.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b "One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient (review)". Publishers Weekly. March 1, 2000. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  13. ^ "When the Fashion Cycle Meets the Cycle of Life". nytimes.com. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  14. ^ Additional reviews of One Hundred Days:
    • Grigoriades, Vanessa (March 12, 2000). "Review". New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
    • Elpern, David J. (2001). "One hundred days: My unexpected journey from doctor to patient". Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Elsevier BV. 44 (5): 881–882. doi:10.1016/s0190-9622(01)70198-3. ISSN 0190-9622.
  15. ^ Additional reviews of The Language of Pain:
  16. ^ "This Magnificent Dappled Sea (review)". Publishers Weekly. September 11, 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2021.

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