As promised last month, Alamo Hospice is excited to introduce you to our Medical Director Dr. Leo Edwards. Edwards joined Alamo Hospice at its inception in fall 2005. His compassionate leadership has guided us from the beginning. Rather than try to tell his story, we thought you would enjoy hearing it directly from him.

Alamo Hospice: Dr. Edwards, on behalf of our readers here at M.D., welcome! Tell us a little about your San Antonio roots.
Dr. Edwards: I was born and raised here in San Antonio, growing up on the East Side. My father ran a television and radio repair shop. All of my education, up to my senior year in high school, was here. I was very active in my church, Holy Redeemer, and my senior year I decided to enter seminary and become a Marianist. I spent four years with them, two in St. Louis and Wisconsin. The last two years I returned to San Antonio and then made a decision to leave the order and pursue medicine. I was accepted at UT Austin, then UTMB in Galveston for medical school. After my residency in Detroit, I came home. The sisters at Holy Redeemer Convent had been instrumental in my education and offered me the convent facilities for an office. I opened my office in the downstairs and I lived upstairs. I have been practicing on the East Side ever since.