She was selected as a member of the first four-year class to graduate from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and was the first woman to be appointed chief medical resident at the University of Florida Health Center in Jacksonville. Selected as the 2005 Internist of the Year by the Florida chapter of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Edwards has been involved in the postgraduate training of more than 250 young physicians in internal medicine. Laura L. Elliott