Jack Mayer

 Jack Mayer

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• Nationality:   United States, Vermont
  
• Education:  Veterinarian MD
  
• Author URL: https://www.jackmayer.net/
• Books Written
• Poems from the Wilderness
• Before the Court of Heaven
• Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
  
• Biography

a pediatrician and a writer.  He began practicing pediatrics in 1976 in Enosburg Falls, Vermont, a small town in eastern Franklin County on the Canadian border. His was the first pediatric practice in that half of the county. He was a country doctor there for ten years, often bartering medical care for eggs, firewood, and knitted afghans. From 1987 – 1991 Dr. Mayer was a National Cancer Institute Fellow at Columbia University researching the molecular biology of childhood cancer. Most of his scientific writing was done during those four years. He was also an academic pediatrician at Columbia University’s Presbyterian Medical Center.     From jack Mayer's website