David Biro Explained

David Biro
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Occupation:Writer, physician
Education:
    Period:2001 to present

    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. He received a BA in Classics from University of Pennsylvania.[2] He went on to receive an MD from Columbia University in 1991, and a DPhil in English Literature in 1993 from the University of Oxford.[3]

    Biro is an associate clinical professor of Dermatology and Medical Humanities at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn,[4] and a clinical assistant professor of Dermatology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.[5] He teaches general dermatology with a focus on skin cancer.

    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]

    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 physician, 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. This was followed by a second novel in 2021.

    Personal life

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

    Bibliography

    Books

    Notes and References

    1. Per Web site: Library of Congress authority file.
    2. Web site: About . David Biro. 2020-10-15.
    3. The Rhetoric of Pain: Literary and Theoretical Representations of Bodily Suffering. University of Oxford. DPhil thesis. Biro. David Eric. 1993. February 13, 2021.
    4. Web site: Profile David Biro, MD, PhD, FAAD. SUNY Downstate. Dermatology Department . 2020-10-15.
    5. Web site: David E. Biro, MD . New York University. 2020-10-15.
    6. Book: Biro, David. Dimensions of Pain: Humanities and Social Science Perspective. Routledge. 2013. Folkmarson Käll. Lisa. Chapter 2: When Language Runs Dry: Pain, the Imagination, and Metaphor.
    7. Book: Biro, David. Pain and Emotion in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. Bodice. Rob. Chapter 4: Psychological Pain: Metaphor or Reality?.
    8. Biro. David. March 2008. An Anatomy of Illness. Journal of Medical Humanities. 29. 1.
    9. Web site: Biro. David. Silent Bond. The New York Times Magazine.
    10. Web site: One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient (review). Kirkus Reviews. December 1, 1999. February 10, 2021.
    11. Ballantyne . Jane C. . Talking Pain: Review of The Language of Pain. Finding Words, Compassion, Relief . Pain Medicine . Oxford University Press (OUP) . 11 . 5 . 2010 . 1526-2375 . 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00847.x . 800. free .
    12. Web site: One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient (review) . Publishers Weekly. 2000-03-01. February 10, 2021.
    13. Web site: When the Fashion Cycle Meets the Cycle of Life. . 2018-05-06.
    14. Additional reviews of One Hundred Days:
      • News: Review. New York Times. Grigoriades. Vanessa. March 12, 2000. February 10, 2021.
      • Elpern . David J. . One hundred days: My unexpected journey from doctor to patient . Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology . Elsevier BV . 44 . 5 . 2001 . 0190-9622 . 10.1016/s0190-9622(01)70198-3 . 881–882.
    15. Additional reviews of The Language of Pain:
    16. Web site: This Magnificent Dappled Sea (review). Publishers Weekly. 2020-09-11. February 10, 2021.
    17. Web site: And the Bridge is Love (review). Kirkus Reviews. August 15, 2021. October 15, 2021.

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