Bernd Sebastian Kamps

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Bernd Sebastian Kamps (born 1954) is a German medical doctor and online medical book publisher.

After graduating from the medical school of the University of Cologne^{[citation needed]}, Kamps practiced medicine at the clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Frankfurt. Subsequently, Kamps became director of the International Amedeo Literature Service [1], a medical journal aggregator designed to compile research from notable medical journals and to organize the research by subject^{[citation needed]}, accelerating access to this information. Kamps also subsidizes the wiki-style production of textbooks, which are made available free of charge online, through the Amedeo Challenge Awards.

Kamps himself has been the editor of several Flying Publisher textbooks, including the medical textbooks HIV Medicine 2005 [2] and Influenza Report 2006 [3].

In 2006, Kamps created the Amedeo Textbook awards for physicians who publish free medical textbooks on the Internet. The first book—700 pages about Tuberculosis—was published in May 2007 and is available at TuberculosisTextbook.com.

In 2007, Kamps created the Amedeo Prize for the most popular scientific articles in medicine.