He has an MD from the American University of Beirut, 1968 and MRCP (UK) in 1973. His first published poem is called “Pacing in the Tomb” and was published in the Saudi Medical Journal, 1986. He also published two poems, titled “Rightly Foreseen” and “panspermia” in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1987. Since then he has published over a hundred other poems in various websites and journals. BRIAN BARBEITO