Gerard Sarnat

Gerard Sarnat is the great-great grandson of Jacob Ben Isaac Gesundheit, the High Rabbi of Warsaw, and shtetl lowlifes, Nahum Z. and Yente Liebe Sarnatzky; a father of three, grandpa, and married forty years. Gerry’s Harvard and Stanford educated, a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has been a professor at Stanford Medical School, an international health care consultant, and CEO/chief medical officer for national healthcare companies. Sarnat has served on international boards and executive committees and chaired community organizations: his particular passion is delivering care to the disenfranchised. Sarnat is a virginal poet at the tender age sixty-four: during the first half of 2008, he was accepted, published or forthcoming in over sixty journals and anthologies worldwide; in the second half, he was listed, commended or won thirtyish poetry competitions and prizes in and outside the US. In 2009 Gerry was asked to edit literary journals. California Institute of Arts and Letters' Pessoa Press will publish his first book, HOMELESS CHRONICLES From Abraham to Burningman,, in March, 2010.