​Kea Edwards, MD

​University of California, San Francisco. Kea grew up in Massachusetts and completed high school in New Hampshire. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Creative Writing and Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies. As part of her studies, she wrote a collection of short fiction and completed a semester in Nepal, where she studied local perceptions of women’s rights movements. Each summer, Kea returned to New Hampshire to work for the Appalachian Mountain Club, managing backcountry lodges in the White Mountains and leading a local Search and Rescue team. 

​After graduating in December 2015, Kea spent 6 months leading backpacking trips in Panama before moving to Asheville, North Carolina to work for a wilderness therapy program for teens. Kea fell in love with the counseling world but ultimately felt that mental health was just one piece of the puzzle. She returned to school, graduating with her post-baccalaureate pre-medical certificate from Goucher College in 2019. From 2019-2020 Kea worked as a research coordinator studying smoking cessation interventions in a methadone clinic in the Bronx. She completed her first year of medical school during the height of the pandemic but still found time to pursue her medical passions: compassionate whole-person medicine, health policy, and the medical humanities. She is thrilled to be joining the Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine team, where she hopes to dive further into her interests, including women’s health, integrative medicine, and relationship-driven care. She is forever grateful for the support of her husband and family, who are very much the reason she is able to do this work that she loves so much.