Dr. Damon Tweedy MD

Damon Tweedy, M.D. is a professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health System. His 2015 book, Black Man in a White Coat, was a New York Times Bestseller, selected by TIME magazine as one of the Top 10 Non-fiction books of that year. He has also published articles about race and medicine in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). His columns and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and various other print publications. His latest book Facing the Unseen explores the marginalization of mental health care within society and medical practice. Damon Tweedy lives outside Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.