David Biro

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

David Biro
Born	1964 (age 60–61) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, physician
Education	University of Pennsylvania (BA) Columbia University (MD) Oxford University (DPhil)
Period	2001 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.^{[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 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][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]
• Biro, David (2021). And the Bridge is Love. Lake Union. ISBN 978-1-5420-2722-9.^[17]