For Immediate Release                                                  Contacts:  Laura Gore

October 5, 2005                                                                                800-320-0610 ext. 3008

Louise Andrew Receives Mills Award from Emergency Medicine Specialty Organization

Washington, DC — Louise B. Andrew, MD, JD, FACEP, an emergency physician and attorney, has received the James D. Mills Award for Outstanding Contributions to Emergency Medicine from the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) during its annual meeting. This is ACEP's second highest honor, named after the organization's second president.

A member of ACEP since 1975, Dr. Andrew has served in numerous leadership roles including Speaker of the Council, a democratic body composed of emergency physicians representing 53 chapters of ACEP, the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association, and ACEP's Sections.  

A trained mediator, counselor and educator, Dr. Andrew writes, consults and lectures internationally on a wide range of medical professional issues, including risk management, physician wellness and litigation stress management, conflict resolution, and gender matters.  To help ensure the honesty and accountability of medical experts, she co-founded and was the first President of the Coalition and Center for Ethical Medical Testimony, a not-for-profit association devoted to peer review of expert medical testimony.

“Dr. Andrew has dedicated her life to enhancing physician wellness, practice longevity and international emergency medicine," said Frederick Blum, MD, FACEP, president of ACEP.  "Her efforts have resulted in better, more cost-effective patient care, and healthier and happier practitioners. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards.”

Dr. Andrew is past president and co-founder of the American Association of Women Emergency Physicians (AAWEP), co-founder of Emergency International, and the Associate Director of the Center for Professional Well-Being.   She was the first recipient of the Louise B. Andrew Wellness in Emergency Medicine Award from AAWEP, and the first recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award given by the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Residency Program, where she served for many years as an assistant professor of emergency medicine and instructor in internal medicine. 

Dr. Andrew is a fifth generation physician, great-great-granddaughter of Dr. Matthew Moore Butler, a Tennessee surgeon who assisted in amputating the arm of General Stonewall Jackson in 1863.  Butler's surgical tools are a highlight of the Country Doctor Museum in Bailey, NC. Her grandfather, Dr. Harry L. Brockmann, was a cofounder of the Burris clinic, precursor to High Point (NC) Regional Hospital. Andrew is the daughter of E.L. Briggs Jr, and Elizabeth Miller, of High Point, NC.