January 11, 2008

Rafael Campo

Rafael Campo, M.D., M.F.A., is a national award winning poet who is also a faculty member and practitioner of general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His newest collection of poetry, The Enemy, was published in April 2007. He is a recipient of the Annual Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Academy of Arts and Sciences, among many other awards. Campo lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Campo was a special guest at the Literature & Medicine program’s national conference, Caring for the Caregiver, held on November 9 & 10, 2007 in Manchester, NH. On the podcast, you will hear both his keynote presentation (introduced by Veneta Masson) and his workshop, “Fact” vs. “Truth” in Narratives of Illness. Please leave your comments on both recordings here.

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