The Art of Getting Well: A Five-Step Plan for Maximizing Health When You Have a Chronic Illness

About the author

DAVID SPERO is a nurse, health educator, and writer with more than two decades of clinical and coaching experience. His recent books include The Inn by the Healing Path, Diabetes Heroes, and Diabetes: Sugar-Coated Crisis.

Spero served on the faculty of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and has written regularly for Diabetes Self-Management and MS Focus. He holds a BSN and worked as a nurse at University of California San Francisco and Kaiser hospitals.

When not writing, Spero draws on his 1989 diagnosis of multiple sclerosis to inform his focus on chronic illness and self-care. Much of his work centers on practical strategies for people managing long-term health conditions.

David lives in San Francisco, California.