Convocation: Rafael Campo

Rafael Campo is a Cuban-American medical doctor who teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has also received wide critical acclaim as an author and poet. This hybrid of physician and poet, referring to himself as a healer, is interested in the ways in which voice and narrative can explicate the experience of human suffering, which is reflected in his book "The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry." Poetry has the power to heal, and he argues for physicians to adopt a practice of integrative medicine, one in which the demands of the mind and soul are understood to play as important a part as those of the body. Rafael Campo delivered the Latino/a Heritage Convocation to help us celebrate and reflect on the legacies and the richness of Latino/Latina communities and individuals.