Edin was educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, and read Medicine at the University of Dundee, qualifying in 1990. After House Officer posts, he trained in general practice at Watford General Hospital and on the Oxford Regional Vocational Training Scheme, becoming a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1996. He joined the Chorleywood practice in 1997 and has never looked back, continuing to work across 4 days and becoming Senior Partner in 2017. His main interests are audit, medical education, and dermatology, and he runs a minor surgery list on Tuesdays.
He is an Undergraduate Tutor to University College, Imperial College, King’s College and Cambridge University Medical Schools, and a Postgraduate Trainer on the Watford Vocational Training Scheme. An active Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, he served on the Council of the Section of General practice with Primary Care from 2008 to 2022, during which he was also co-organiser of the Annual Postgraduate Update Conference, resuming both roles in 2025 after a compulsory break. He has published over 120 papers in healthcare journals, mainly on medical and nursing education and service development within the NHS; many of these are collaborations GP and Consultant colleagues, nurses, students and managers, reflecting his interest in interprofessional working. His academic contributions have been recognised by being awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2011, serving as President of the GP Section at the Royal Society of Medicine from 2013-15, and appointment as an article reviewer for the British Journal of General Practice.
Away from medicine, his interests include football, tennis, travel and classical art. He is married with a son and daughter, and lives in Pinner.