Meet the Directors
Laura Tilley, M.D., FACEP
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Scholarly Concentration Director
Laura C Tilley, MD, FACEP is a Board-Certified Emergency Physician and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Tilley earned her Bachelor of Science from Wake Forest University, magna cum laude, where she commissioned a Distinguished Military Graduate from the Army Reserve Officer Training program into the U. S. Army. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, where she was valedictorian and an Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Society inductee. Dr. Tilley completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Madigan Army Medical Center and served as Chief Resident. Dr. Tilley served for more than a decade on Active Duty in the United States Army where she worked in community, academic, and operational medicine to include serving as a forward deployed physician in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She has been recognized by the U. S. Army Surgeon General as the most outstanding physician amongst her peer group. Dr. Tilley has been commended by military and civilian institutions for her significant policy contributions to improving medical care. She has previously been recognized by her students as the most outstanding military educator over all four years of medical school. Her research focuses include disaster medicine, trauma-induced hypothermia, prolonged casualty care, military-civilian collaboration and controlled substance prescribing.
Andrew Garrett, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Scholarly Concentration Director
Andrew Garrett, MD, MPH is the academic section chief for Emergency Health Operations and is an associate professor at George Washington University’s School for Medicine and Health Sciences. His medical specialties are pediatrics, as well as EMS and disaster medicine. He is also board certified in these areas.
Dr. Garrett has over 15 years of leadership experience with the federal disaster response community and has spent much of his career with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the chief medical officer and then director of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), overseeing a system of nearly 7,000 federal employees and over 80 medical, veterinary, and mass fatality disaster response teams. He also spent two years at the White House, most recently as the director for Biodefense and Medical Preparedness on the National Security Council. He has also served as the senior medical adviser to the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) focusing on areas of national health security.
He has deployed both domestically and internationally to over 20 major disasters and public health emergencies, as both a clinical provider and as the chief medical officer to the federal government’s Health and Public Health Incident command structure.