|
Showing 1 - 1 of
1 matches in All Departments
In 1957 three plastic surgeons--Sir Archibald McIndoe, Dr. Michael
Wood, and Dr. Thomas D. Rees, the sole surviving founder--began
what was then called "The Flying Doctors Service of Africa." These
surgeons devoted the full measure of their collective time, energy,
and creativity to make their vision a reality: to bring specialist
surgical care to Africa's most remote areas and improve the lives
of children and families who, through no fault of their own,
experience extreme suffering and disfigurement. They were the first
to bring reconstructive surgery to East Africa utilizing light
airplanes and itinerant surgeons who would use their expertise to
treat victims of burns, congenital deformities, trauma, animal
bites, cancer, and deformities resulting from endemic tropical
diseases. With experience, and responding to the overwhelming
health needs of the rural population and urban poor, the parameters
of what became the Flying Doctor Services of East Africa evolved to
include public health, environmental medicine, training and
education of health care workers, nomadic health care, and
emergency medical response. Today, the Flying Doctors of East
Africa through it's parent organization, the African Medical
Research and Education Foundation (AMREF) is the largest indigenous
international health development non-governmental organization in
sub-Sahara Africa operating in nine African countries with a
full-time staff of over 600, 96% of whom are of African origin. The
Flying Doctor Services of East Africa has evacuated over 50,000
emergency patients from the bush to urban hospitals. It has flown
over 12 million miles, and performed more than 50,000 major
operations. THOMAS D. REES, M.D., was born and raised in Utah, the
son of a University Professor, and a second generation descendent
of Mormon Pioneers. After graduating from the University of Utah
Medical School and completing a prestigious fellowship in plastic
surgery at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Great Britain, he began a
distinguished forty-three year career in New York City as a
practicing plastic surgeon, educator, author, and innovator in his
field. Since 1957, he has made almost annual trips to East Africa
on behalf of the Flying Doctors of East Africa. He is a Clinical
Professor of Plastic Surgery at New York University School of
Medicine, Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Plastic Surgery at
the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, and senior surgeon to
the Institute for Reconstructive Surgery. A frequent lecturer at
medical institutions, symposia, and forums all over the World. Dr.
Rees is also the author of more than 140 medical articles and six
medical texts including the two-volume "Aesthetic Plastic Surgery,"
a classic for doctors-in-training, and "More Than Just A Pretty
Face" (Little Brown), a book for the general public. His many TV
appearances include NBC News "The Early Show," "Live with Regis and
Kathy Lee," and ABC's "Morning Show." He has been an avid aviator,
skier, fly fisherman, and horseman. His current passion is
sculpting African animals and people. He resides in Quogue, New
York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Nan.
|
You may like...
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson
Blu-ray disc
(1)
R54
R45
Discovery Miles 450
|