Edgar A. Gamboa

Ed Gamboa was born in Cebu City, Philippines. Consequent to the imposition of Martial Law in September 1972, the activist physician and his pediatrician wife Lucie immigrated to the United States in 1976. Ed trained in Family Medicine in Yonkers, New York; General Surgery in SUNY-Buffalo, and Pediatric Surgery in SUNY-Downstate in Brooklyn. After the birth of their second son, Michael Joseph, the family moved to San Diego, California in 1985 where Ed trained in Transplant Surgery at UCSD then practiced at Scripps while Lucie opened a Pediatrics practice in Mira Mesa and La Jolla. (See "Filipino-American Lives" by Yen Le Espiritu, Temple University Press, 1995).

In 1988, Ed made a trip to Medjugorje, Bosnia-Hercegovina. Subsequent trips resulted in "From Mt. Krizevac to Mt. Carmel", written under the pen name John Paul Noel. He wrote "Virtuous Healers: Models of Faith in Medicine" (St. Anthony Messenger Press) in 2008. Currently, Ed is working on a historical novel, "The Dark Nights of Father Madrid", about a rebel communist priest in the Philippines.

The author is an oblate of Immaculate Heart of Mary (New Camaldoli) Hermitage in Big Sur and a member of the Knights of Columbus. Ed and Lucie are members of the Order of Malta and the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem; they founded St. Joseph's Helpers. When not operating or writing, Ed loves to sail.