Dr. Edney grew up in Penacook, NH and graduated with a BA in biochemistry from St. Anselm College in Manchester. He graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1998 and completed his urology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2004. He has been in private practice in Salisbury, MD for 14 years.
Dr. Edney has extensive experience in health policy and advocacy. He is past president of Maryland's state urology coalition. He has served as Health Policy Chair for the Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Urological Association (AUA) and was the section's representative to the American Urological Association's Public Policy Council from 2012-18. He is also a former member of the AUA's legislative affairs committee. In that role he led a successful, multi-year AUA effort to achieve Federal legislation improving the inter-agency care coordination of military victims of urological trauma. During this effort, he testified before both US House and Senate VA committees in support the Bill. Ultimately, the AUA Urotrauma language was included in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. Dr. Edney is currently the President of the American Association of Clinical Urologists.
Dr. Edney served in the medical corps of the United States Army Reserve from 1999 to 2015. During that time, he served on the urology staffs of both Walter Reed Army Medical Center (2004), Tripler Army Medical Center (2009) and was deployed to Mosul, Iraq with the 399th Combat Support Hospital (2006).
Dr. Edney earned his MBA from Brandeis University in 2017. His is a former Chief of Surgery at Peninsula Regional Medical Center and is the current Vice-President of the Medical Staff and Medical Director of the Surgery Service Line.
He lives in Salisbury, MD with his wife of 19 years, Ashley (Shurtleff) Edney, and their three children.