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John Graham-Pole, M.D. is professor of pediatrics and affiliate
professor
of clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida. He has
been a clinician, teacher, and researcher for over 25 years in the field
of childhood cancer.
In 1991 he co-founded and is currently medical director for Arts in
Medicine (AIM) at the University of Florida, arguably the nation's leading
university hospital arts program. As well as over 120 scientific
publications he has published more than 60 poems and essays on the healing
arts, and performs as an improvisational actor and clown. His book,
"Illness and the Art of Creative Self Expression," is scheduled for
publication by New Harbinger Publications in Summer 2000.
He is a winner of his university's annual Superior Accomplishment Award
and is listed in The Best Doctors in America, 2nd Edition 1994-95 and 4th
Edition 1998-99, The Best Doctors in America: Southeast Region 1996-97,
and Who's Who in America 1996. He was nominated in 1999 for the American
Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award, and presented The McGovern
Lecture for Yale University's School of Medicine Program for Humanities in
Medicine 1999-2000 Lectures. He is a board member for several national
organizations, including the American Holistic Medical Association,
Society for Arts in Healthcare, and the National Association for Poetry
Therapy.
He has received grants from the National Institute of Health, the American
Cancer Society, and the State of Florida Arts Council; and has had
continuous funding from Shands Hospital and Children's Miracle Network for
his AIM program over the past five years.
He has been an invited speaker throughout North America on all aspects of
the health-illness transition, particularly on creativity and the arts,
humor, poetry, death and dying, spiritual and ethical issues. He is a
seeker after better bodily, mental, and spiritual health for our whole
society.
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