Bernd Sebastian Kamps

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Bernd Sebastian Kamps (born 1954) is a German medical doctor and online medical journal 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]}, making such research available for free download. Kamps later founded Flying Publisher [2], which disseminates Amedeo collections via e-mail, including to medical students and doctors without access to textbooks, and also subsidizes the wiki-style production of textbooks, which are made available free-of-charge online.

Kamps himself has been the lead author of several Flying textbooks, including the medical textbooks HIV Medicine 2005 [3] and Influenza Report 2006 [4]. In 2006, Kamps created the Amedeo Textbook awards for physicians who publish free medical textbooks on the Internet.