Alan Fuller, MD, receives Mercy Hospital's Leadership Award
COON RAPIDS, Minn. 11/30/2007--Emergency physician Alan Fuller, MD, is this year's recipient of the Richard Travis, MD, Leadership Award.
The award is given by the Medical Staff of Mercy and Unity hospitals to a Mercy physician who is regarded by peers as an excellent clinician, has been on staff for a minimum of 10 years and has a history of service to the hospital and community.
Fuller is currently medical director of Mercy's Emergency Services, a role he has held for nine years. He has practiced at Mercy for 17 years.
Fuller was born in Minneapolis but during his high school years, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium and attended school in Fribourg, Switzerland. In 1968, he moved back to Minneapolis and graduated from Edina High School.
He attended the University of Notre Dome in South Bend, Ind., and then enrolled at the University of Minnesota Medical School. After his second year, he took a year off to learn electron microscopy and performed research in the Anatomy department. He returned to receive his medical degree in 1977.
He then moved to San Francisco and completed an internship at Pacific Medical Center. Rather than immediately beginning a residency, he elected to go to work in the "fledgling" field of emergency medicine.
Fuller started his career in Elkins, West Virginia, a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, where he practiced for nine years. During the last few years in West Virginia, he was an assistant professor of Surgery at West Virginia University.
In 1987, he returned to the Twin Cities and started working with Emergency Physicians Professional Association, better known as EPPA. EPPA is the oldest private fee-for-service emergency medicine group in the country and one of the largest in the Midwest.
In addition to leading Mercy's emergency department, Fuller has served on numerous medical staff councils and committees at Mercy. For many years, he served as a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is currently a director of Liability Carriers International, an insurance company domiciled in the Cayman Islands, which specializes in the medical malpractice market.
Over the years, Fuller has volunteered on the Caribbean Island of Barbuda. On four occasions, for a month each time, he and his family traveled there, where he was the sole physician providing medical care to a population of 2,000. Limited laboratory testing and no radiology capabilities forced him to practice a more primitive, "yet strangely rewarding, style of medicine," he says.
Fuller has lived on a hobby farm in Stillwater for the past 15 years. He enjoys playing the guitar and hopes to manufacture acoustic guitars from his shop one day. He spends his free time canoeing, skiing and motorcycling. He loves to travel and is found "out and about whenever the opportunity presents itself."
Mercy Hospital, located in Coon Rapids, Minn., is a 271-bed non-profit hospital that serves the northwestern Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Part of Allina Hospitals & Clinics, the hospital provided care to more than 165,000 people in 2006.
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