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 first novel, Standard of Care (Sentient Publications, 2007), is available now. His nonfiction book-in-progress,
Fortnight on Maxwell Street: A Personal and Historic Portrait of the Chicago Maternity Center, will be completed
in 2010.
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.
