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TOP40INSIDE BUSINESS:40 UnderevmsphysicianshonoredTwo EVMS physicianswere named to theInside Business “TOP40 UNDER 40” listfor 2008, and a facultymember was amongthe newspaper’s featured“Women in Business.”Joseph Han, MDJoseph Han, MD,an EVMS Health Services physician andassociate professor of otolaryngology, and DanNeumann, MD, assistant professor of clinicalinternal medicine, made the publication’sannual list of leadingyoung professionals.Neumann is a gastroenterologistwithGastrointestinal andLiver Specialists ofTidewater, PLLCwith deep ties toDan Neumann, MDEVMS. In additionto serving among the school’s communityfaculty, he also is an EVMS graduate andpresident-elect of the EVMS Medical AlumniAssociation. Han directs the EVMS Division ofRhinology and Endoscopic Sinus and SkullBase Surgery within the Department ofOtolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.Stephanie MoodyStephanie MoodyAntonio, MDCochlear Implant Program.Antonio, MD, madethe Inside Business listof successful businesswomen.Moody Antonio,an EVMS HealthServices physician, isan assistant professorof otolaryngology anddirector of the EVMSrememberingWilliamAndrewsWilliam C. Andrews, MD, a Norfolknative who helped establish the school’sdepartment of obstetrics and gynecologyand provided invaluable support to thedepartment and the school even intoretirement, died Dec. 31, 2008.In a message to the campus announcingAndrews’ death, Dean Gerald J. Pepe andPresident Harry T. Lester lauded Andrewsfor his “remarkable lifetime achievements”in his roles as a physician, educator, teacherand leader.“Clearly, Andrews combined a remarkabletalent for clinical practice and researchwith dedication to organized medicine andacademia,” they wrote.He was the youngest son of C. J.Andrews, MD, a prominent physician whobrought the specialty of obstetrics andgynecology to Norfolk. William and hisolder brother, Mason, who also went on tobecome a prominent physician, receivedsome early training in their specialty.As youths, the sons would often answerthe phone at home and it would be oneof their father’s patients — in labor. “Theywould ask, ‘How often are the painscoming?’ recalls Robert Faulconer, MD,a medical school classmate of WilliamAndrews at Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Medicine.Andrews trained at New York Hospitaland served a tour in the U.S. Navy before hereturned to Norfolk and joined his brotherto set up the practice now known as theGroup for Women. As active members ofthe medical staff of what was then NorfolkGeneral Hospital, the brothers wereinvolved in training residents.One of their early trainees was WilletteLeHew, MD, who had intended to specializein orthopedic surgery but fell in love withobstetrics and gynecology under the tutelageof the Andrews brothers. After completinghis residency, he joined them in practice.“I was so impressed with how they tookcare of their patients,” recalls LeHew.William Andrews, MDHe was equally impressed with theirtireless efforts to improve patient care. Thebrothers conducted research and publishedpapers while maintaining full patient loads.“It was great to work with them. Almostevery day they came up with anothernew idea,” says LeHew, a former rector ofthe EVMS Board of Visitors whorecently retired from active practice. “It’s anobstetrician’s dream to work with peopleyou get along so well with.”Faulconer, a pathologist who founded thedepartment of pathology at EVMS, oftenevaluated tissue samples for Andrews.“He had a relaxed manner,” saysFaulconer. “He was very kind to his patientsand he took a personal interest in them.”Andrews, who upon his retirement wasnamed an EVMS professor emeritus,devoted himself to educating ob-gynresidents. His students were impressed withhis knowledge of medicine, his teachingability, his research efforts and his manner ofcaring for patients.Prior to becoming a member of theoriginal EVMS faculty, Dr. Andrewsdirected the ob-gyn residency and was chiefof the ob-gyn department at Medical CenterHospitals.In retirement, he lectured throughoutthe country in the field of gynecology andremained active in national medical organizations,including serving as presidentof the America College of Obstetriciansand Gynecologists and the AmericanFertility Society.Andrews also stayed involved atEVMS. As a valued member of the EVMSAdmissions Committee, he helped conductmore than 100 student interviews eachyear, and he personally encouraged manystudents to attend EVMS.6 WINTER 2009 WWW.EVMS.EDU NEWS