David Kerns is Adjunct
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, the former Chief Medical Officer of Santa Clara
Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA, and an internationally recognized expert in the medical care of abused children. He
is the author of numerous medical research articles, essays and book chapters, and co-author of a groundbreaking CD-ROM on
the medical diagnosis of child sexual abuse.
His debut novel, Standard of Care (Sentient Publications),
is a tale of ethical crisis and redemption set in the world of mega-corporate health care. It was a finalist in the 2008 Indie
Excellence Awards for fiction. His book-in-progress, Fortnight on Maxwell Street, is "true fiction," a
drama set in inner-city Chicago in the days immediately preceding and following the assassination of Martin Luther King. It
will be completed in 2011.
A native Chicagoan, Kerns counts among his accomplishments a happy family, a career-long
commitment to the well-being of children, respectable mastery of the bluegrass banjo, and survival, so far, in the arena of
narrative prose. He lives in Napa, California.
