Thank you for helping the Emory Emergency Medicine team formally recognize Dr. Douglas Lowery-North’s contributions to emergency medicine. With your support, we are honored to begin awarding the Emory Emergency Medicine Dr. Douglas Lowery-North Mentor of the Year in September 2021. We will also be hosting a Dr. Douglas Lowery-North Mentorship Grand Rounds Series with nationally and internationally recognized leaders in mentoring and teaching. We want to express our sincere gratitude for contributing to the Dr. Douglas Lowery-North Mentorship Fund to honor Doug’s legacy and formally recognize his impact on so many physicians. We will be closing the fund on January 8, 2021. As we remember Doug, I hope you enjoy the poem “Gratitude” by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

With sincere appreciation, and wishes for a safe and peaceful holiday.

David Wright, MD

Chair, Emergency Medicine

Gratitude By Lucy Maud Montgomery

I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought

That in words well chosen thou gavest to me,

Deep in the life of my soul it has wrought

With its own rare essence to ever imbue me,

To gleam like a star over devious ways,

To bloom like a flower on the drearest days­

Better such gift from thee to me

Than gold of the hills or pearls of the sea.

For the luster of jewels and gold may depart,

And they have in them no life of the giver,

But this gracious gift from thy heart to my heart

Shall witness to me of thy love forever;

Yea, it shall always abide with me

As a part of my immortality;

For a beautiful thought is a thing divine,

So I thank thee, oh, friend, for this gift of thine.

Thank you for your amazing support for Dr. Lowery-North’s Mentorship Fund!

We wanted to let you know that the below continuing resolution, in honor and in memory of Dr. Lowery-North, will be read at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) annual virtual meeting on Saturday, October 24.

"WHEREAS, The specialty of emergency medicine lost a compassionate physician, dedicated educator, mentor, air force reserve flight surgeon, and colleague in Douglas W. Lowery-North, MD, MSPH, FACEP who passed away on August 4, 2020 at the age of 58; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Douglas W. Lowery-North graduated from Vanderbilt University (Phi Beta Kappa) and then attended Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (AOA), then completed his emergency medicine residency at the UCLA – UCLA/OV Emergency Medicine program and completed a Master's of Public Health in Biostatistics and Informatics at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Douglas W. Lowery-North served as chief resident, and then faculty and Associate Program Director at the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine, as the Medical Student Course Director and Fourth Year Clerkship Director at the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine; and

WHEREAS, Douglas W. Lowery-North served as faculty at Emory University School of Medicine and Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine, served as the first physician Director of the Emory University Hospital Emergency Department, as well as Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice Chair at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Douglas W. Lowery-North served as a Captain and Flight Surgeon in the California Air National Guard, and as a Flight Surgeon in the Air Force Reserve for 10 years; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Douglas W. Lowery-North provided service on numerous institutional and national committees for SAEM and ACEP including the ACEP Simulation Interest Group, and ACEP Emergency Medical Informatics Interest Group; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Douglas W. Lowery-North was recognized for his excellence in teaching with numerous awards including Outstanding Medical Student Teacher of the Year – Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Teacher of the Year Award at Emory University Emergency Medicine Residency, Dean’s Teaching Award at Emory University School of Medicine, ACEP National Teaching Award; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Douglas W. Lowery-North was known as an exemplary clinician, who was looked up to by fellow physicians, nurses, physician assistants, EMS personnel, and hospital staff; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Douglas W. Lowery-North mentored hundreds of undergraduate (pre-med) students, medical students, resident trainees and faculty in emergency medicine with his warm and caring approach, always making time and insisting everyone call him by his first name, always interested in the person and proud of what they did, inspiring those who met him to strive to make themselves better because they knew he believed in them, as he made his life’s journey about supporting those around him; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Lowery-North touched the lives of countless individuals as an educator, physician, role model, mentor, colleague, pioneer, friend, and devoted husband and father; and

WHEREAS, Dr. Lowery-North shaped the future of emergency medicine in Los Angeles and Atlanta and with his leadership, vision, enthusiasm, and dedication; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the American College of Emergency Physicians remembers with gratitude the many contributions made by Douglas W. Lowery-North, MD, FACEP, as one of the leaders in emergency medicine and the greater medical community; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the American College of Emergency Physicians extends to the family of Douglas W. Lowery-North, MD FACEP, his friends, and his colleagues our condolences and gratitude for his tremendous service to his country, the specialty of emergency medicine, and to the patients and physicians of California, Georgia, Oregon and the United States."

We are incredibly thankful for the support everyone has shown for Dr. Lowery-North’s Mentorship Fund. The inaugural Douglas Lowery-North Grand Rounds series and Mentorship Award will begin in 2021. If you have suggestions for outstanding national and/or international leaders in mentorship or teaching, please contact us.  The inaugural Faculty Mentorship Award will be awarded to the most outstanding Mentor in September of 2021 and annually thereafter. 

Please consider sharing the Douglas Lowery-North Mentorship Fund Momentum page on your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and in emails with colleagues that may have known Doug. He was in the Woodruff Leadership Academy and touched so many through his work in Emory’s ED and emergency medicine more broadly. Our goal is to reach everyone that knew and worked with Doug to honor his legacy and the many lives he impacted through his caring and compassionate nature.

With sincere appreciation,

David Wright, MD

Chair, Emergency Medicine

Thank you for supporting the Dr. Douglas Lowery-North Mentorship Fund. With your gift, the Emergency Medicine team is able to honor Doug’s legacy and formally recognize the caring and compassion that he exuded on every shift and in every interaction.

There are many stories that our team has shared that remind us how remarkable he was and the lasting impact he left on our Emory Emergency Medicine team. Dr. Selin Caglar recalled what Doug said to her as she was finishing her first day at Emory, “my only goal today was to make you fall in love with Emory. Now that I've met you, my goal from now on will be to make sure you retire from here." Doug trained as an astronaut before he became an EM physician and Dr. Caglar shared, “When I see a star, from now on, I am going to think about Doug, merrily fusing the way, and lighting up the galaxy.”

Thank you for helping us memorialize the prodigious mark that he left on so many at Emory.

With sincere appreciation,

David Wright, MD

Chair, Emergency Medicine