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Rafael Campo M.D.
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graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Medical School, Rafael Campo
currently teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard
Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston,
where his practice serves mostly Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered
people, and people with HIV infection.
He is the author of The Other Man Was Me (1994),
which won the 1993 National Poetry Series Award; What the Body Told
(1996), which won a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; and The Poetry
of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire
(1997), a collection of essays now available in paperback under
the title The Desire to Heal.
With the support of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
fellowship, he wrote Diva (1999). He is a recipient of the Annual
Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Academy of Arts and
Sciences and a Pushcart Prize, and he has served as Visiting Writer
at Amherst College, the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana,
and Brandeis University. Dr. Campo has lectured widely, with recent
appearances at the Lannan Foundation, the Library of Congress, the
92nd Street Y, and other prestigious venues.
His newest collection of poetry, Landscape with
Human Figure, was published in April 2002, and won the Gold Medal
from ForeWord in poetry. In August of 2003, W.W. Norton published
The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry, new essays on poetry
and healing.
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