Name: Elizabeth Helena Edmunds
Education: Shamokin Catholic High School; College Misericordia, bachelor's in chemistry; University of Scranton, master's in organic chemistry; Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, doctorate; Sisters of Mercy, College Misericordia.
Teaching: 1962-70, various Catholic schools; 1970-71, graduate teaching assistant, University of Scranton; summer 1972, instructor of inorganic and organic chemistry, University of Scranton.
Medicine: 1975-76, residency, Good Samaritan Hospital, Dayton, Ohio; 1976-78, residency, Wyoming Valley Family Practice, Kingston; 1978-1980, Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Fla.; 1980-81, assistant professor and director of educational activities, Albany Medical College; 1981-83, associate director/OB-GYN coordinator, Wyoming Valley Family Practice Residency; 1983-84, emergency room physician, Berwick Hospital; 1983-84, part-time, Family Medicine, Kingston; 1984-86, associate director of family practice residency, St. Joseph Medical Center, Reading; 1986-2012, private practice, Pennside; 2012-present, part-time, Healthways Family Medical Center, Exeter Township.
U.S. Navy Reserves: commissioned as ensign in 1973; lieutenant as family practice resident in 1978; 1978-80, active duty at Naval Hospital; 1980-81, lieutenant commander, medical student liaison officer, Albany N.Y.; 1981-83, lieutenant commander, MEDCRU 404, Avoca; 1983-84, lieutenant commander, voluntary service, medical recruiting NRD, Harrisburg; 1984-87, commander, Naval Hospital Bethesda Unit 1904, Reading; 1987-1990, commander, Individual Ready Reserve, New Orleans, La.; Sept. 1, 1990, commander, retired.
Recognition: 2013 Family Physician of the Year Award.
Family: first husband, 1989-2009, John Bankert, deceased; second husband, 2012-present, Charles Itle.
