P.K. Edgewater

P. K. Edgewater, a military veteran, and doctor of 40 years, is the debut author of a novel, Passages: A Voyage From War To Peace.

Edgewater retired in 2020 after a four-decade medical career that included working as an internist and rheumatologist, founding and managing an arthritis and rheumatology research center, and consulting over clinical trials in China and Russia.

He was named a Top Doctor by Phoenix Magazine, annually from 2005-2019. He has served as a clinical volunteer in numerous countries, including Vietnam, Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, and Nicaragua, as well as in Guadalupe and Phoenix in Arizona, and published a doctoral dissertation on short-term medical volunteering overseas. For the past three years he has been a clinical volunteer with Lincoln County Medical Reserve Corps in Oregon, and now attending to overnight guests in a winter shelter for persons experiencing homelessness.

He has treated many military veterans in the course of his medical practice. Edgewater served during the Vietnam War in the Air Force but did not see combat. His four brothers served in the Navy and his sister in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam conflict era. All were volunteers.

He also taught medicine in New Zealand, Cambodia and Ethiopia, as well as virtually to students in Rwanda. Edgewater has published in dozens of medical publications, including American Journal of medicine, Journal of Rheumatology, The Rheumatologist, Journal of Compassionate Health Care, and Globalization and Health.

Edgewater attended the US Air Force Academy and graduated from University of Tulsa with a BS in Zoology. He graduated from the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Oklahoma State University as a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. He later earned a Masters in Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management, in Arizona, and a PhD in governance and policy analysis at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

He was Principal Investigator or Sub-Investigator in over 300 clinical trials in the therapeutic areas of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, vasculitis, scleroderma, Bechet’s disease, gout, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, hypertension, chronic anemia, and opioid induced constipation.

Edgewater, who was once a National Wado Ryu Karate Champion, Senior Black Belt division, was raised in a blue-collar Catholic household as the youngest of six in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edgewater is married and resides in Depoe Bay, Oregon.