Physician, Poet & Essayist; Director of Literature & Writing Programs at Harvard Medical School; Poetry Editor for JAMA

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Rafael Campo Biography

Dr. Rafael Campo is a poet, essayist, and physician whose career bridges medicine and literature. Campo serves as the director of literature and writing programs for the Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School, where he also practices internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He earned a BA and an MA from Amherst College and an MD from Harvard Medical School. During his medical residency, he studied with Derek Walcott and Robert Pinsky, an experience that deepened his commitment to poetry as both an art form and a tool for healing.

Campo is the author of several poetry collections, including "Alternative Medicine," "The Enemy," which received the Sheila Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club, "Landscape with Human Figure," "Diva," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, "What the Body Told," winner of a Lambda Literary Award, and "The Other Man Was Me," winner of the National Poetry Series. He is also the author of two prose books: "The Poetry of Healing," winner of a Lambda Literary Award in memoir, and "The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry." His collected volume, "Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016," reflects his extensive contributions to poetry and medicine.

Campo's honors include a National Poetry Series Award, Lambda Literary Awards, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Annual Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Pushcart Prize, and the Sheila Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. He is also the recipient of the Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award from the American College of Physicians for humanism in medicine, an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Amherst College, and the Hippocrates Open International Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Campo's poetry has appeared in major journals and newspapers including American Poetry Review, The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, Paris Review, Salon, Slate, and The Washington Post Book World.

Campo's poems often address illness, health, suffering, and identity. He has prescribed poetry to patients and led poetry workshops for them. He serves as poetry editor for JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. Campo delivered a TEDx Cambridge talk exploring the intersection of medicine and the human soul. His poetry, which explores identity, family, health, and illness, has been translated into six languages.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/26/2026.

Rafael Campo Videos

Update on the MSD HIV Pipeline: Prevention, Treatment, and Cure

Update on the MSD HIV Pipeline: Prevention, Treatment, and Cure

Lecture: Update on the MSD HIV Pipeline: Prevention Treatment and Cure Speaker: Rafael Campo MD Affiliation: MSD United States Presented ...

Richard Blanco Reads “My Voice” by Rafael Campo

Richard Blanco Reads “My Voice” by Rafael Campo

Richard Blanco reads Rafael Campo's poem “My Voice” as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home.

How Poetry Heals Us | Rafael Campo | TEDxCambridge

How Poetry Heals Us | Rafael Campo | TEDxCambridge

Rafael Campo teaches and practices medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

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