David Biro has a med­ical degree from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and a doc­tor­ate in Lit­er­a­ture from Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty. He is a Pro­fes­sor of Der­ma­tol­ogy at SUNY Down­state Med­ical Cen­ter where he also teach­es med­ical humanities.

Dr. Biro has writ­ten two high­ly acclaimed books: One Hun­dred Days: My Unex­pect­ed Jour­ney from Doc­tor to Patient (2000) and The Lan­guage of Pain: Find­ing Words, Com­pas­sion, and Relief (2010). He has pub­lished arti­cles in The New York Times, Lon­don Times, Philadel­phia Inquir­er, and Slate.