Dr Edwards is a Partner Physician with Queensland Respiratory Services. He graduated from the University of Queensland in 1969 with a MBBS and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1975 and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians in 1976. He held a position as a Research Fellow in the department of Medicine at the University of Sydney where he began his research career. He has since published numerous articles taking an interest in the influenza vaccination, asthma, pulmonary haemorrhage, idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis and occupational lung disease. 

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Dr Edwards is a Certified Independent Medical Examiner and Investigator at the Wesley Dust Disease Research Centre.