David Biro

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

David Biro
Born1964 (age 58–59)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationWriter, physician
NationalityAmerican
Education
Period2001 to present
Website
www.davidbiro.com

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,[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.

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
  • 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]
  • Biro, David (2021). And the Bridge is Love. Lake Union. ISBN 978-1-5420-2722-9.[17]

References
  1. Per "Library of Congress authority file".
  2. "About". David Biro. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  3. "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. "One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient (review)". Kirkus Reviews. December 1, 1999. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  11. 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. "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". The New York Times. 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.
  17. "And the Bridge is Love (review)". Kirkus Reviews. August 15, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2021.
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