Thomas Rees, plastic surgeon and humanitarian, dies at 86

November 22, 2013

Dr. Thomas D. Rees, an innovative New York plastic surgeon who helped found the Flying Doctors Service of East Africa, a charity that employs a fleet of small planes to provide medical care and save lives deep in the African bush, died on Nov. 14 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 86. His daughter, S. Elizabeth Rees, said the cause was liver cancer. (New York Times)