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Patrick S. Edwards, MD,
FAAP
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Dr. Edwards earned a bachelor of arts degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. He went on to earn his doctorate of medicine from East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina in 1999. He
finished a combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency
at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. Dr. Edwards is board certified
in pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr.
Edwards has a special interest in Pediatric Dermatology and the treatment of ADHD.
Dr. Edwards is married to Dr. Kimberly Edwards, a dermatologist
here in Wilmington at Dermatology Associates. They have two daughters, Audrey and Anna Caroline. They currently
live in Wilmington and are members of Wrightsville United Methodist Church. Dr. Edwards is orginially from the area. He lived in Wilmington until the age of five, when he and his parents
moved to Whiteville, his parent's hometown. Dr. Edwards graduated from Whiteville High School in 1990, and his brother
and parents still live in Whiteville today. Aside
from his love for comic books and Star Wars, Dr. Edwards's hobbies include boating, playing the piano,
weight training, biking, and travel.
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Jennifer F. Player, MD, FAAP
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Dr. Player is originally from Georgia.
She earned a bachelor of science degree in molecular biology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee,
and graduated Cum Laude in 1995. Dr. Player received her doctorate in medicine from Mercer University
School of Medicine in Georgia, in 2000, and finished her Pediatric residency at Medical University of South Carolina
in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2003. She is board certified in pediatrics, and is a Fellow of the American Academy
of Pediatrics. Dr. Player practiced pediatrics for two years in Blue Ridge, Georgia before moving to
Wilmington in 2006.
Dr.
Player's special interests include newborn care and breast feeding education.
She is married to Dr. Greg Player, a family medicine physician who works here in Wilmington at New Hanover Medical
Group. They have two daughters, Emily and Kate. Dr. Player's hobbies include spending time with her family
at the beach, reading books, foreign mission trips, and travel.
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Eric M. Jackson, MD, FAAP
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Dr. Jackson is
originally from South Carolina. He earned a bachelor of science degree in Biochemistry from Clemson University
in 1998. Dr. Jackson received his doctorate in medicine from Medical University of South Carolina in
Charleston in 2003, and finished his Pediatric residency at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston in 2006.
He is board certified in pediatrics, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Jackson practiced
pediatrics for one year in Beaufort, South Carolina, before moving to Wilmington in 2007.
Dr. Jackson and his wife, Katey, have four children:
Hannah, Luke, Simon, and new baby Jordan.
Dr. Jackson's hobbies include soccer, piano, guitar, kayaking, and bible study.
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Patrick
J. Renton, MD, FAAP
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Dr. Renton graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, with a Bachelor of
Arts in Chemistry in 2001. He graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond in 2005, and
stayed on to do his pediatric residency training at Medical College of Virginia until 2008. Dr. Renton is currently
on staff at New Hanover Regional Medical Center's Women's and Children's Hospital as a pediatric hospitalist, taking
care of the area's sickest children, including those critcal-care patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. In
addition to hospital-based pediatrics, Dr. Renton still enjoys seeing patients out in the community. For
the last two years he has been able to fill in if one of our doctors was on vacation, or just help out in the winter
on our busiest days as an additional doctor.
Dr. Renton will be joining our group in May 2012 as
a full-time physician. He is currently a pediatric hospitalist at the Women's and Children's Hospital.
Dr. Renton is married to his lovely wife, Susan, and has a three year old daughter, Ella, and a
one year old son, Jackson. His hobbies include competing in triathalons, reading, cooking,
and playing video games with Dr. Jackson and Dr. Edwards.
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