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Andy is the proud father of five children (Joe, Becky, Irene, Jessica, and Daniel), grandfather of fourteen, and was husband to his late wife Cookie for 34 years. Born in working-class Brooklyn in 1957, Andy found his calling studying medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he lived in a one-room apartment and worked nights and weekends as a blood bank technician to help pay the tuition. Dr. Harris graduated near the top of his class and continued to practice medicine at Johns Hopkins for almost three decades. Dr. Harris has been voted by his peers to receive the esteemed “Top Doc” award from Baltimore Magazine numerous times. For the last few years Andy had practiced at Memorial Hospital in Easton and Peninsula Regional Medical Center on the Eastern Shore.