Rotary International Medical Missions (Rotaplast.org)

Debra Ann Reilly, MD, FACS, grew up in Houston and Buffalo.  Following her Magna Cum Laude graduation from Duke University (with majors in Music and Zoology) she attended The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for her MD degree.  Her surgical training included The University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston for General Surgery, Brooke Army Burn Unit for the Burn Fellowship and back to Galveston for Plastic Surgery.  She has been on the University faculties of the University of California Davis, University of Southern California, and University of Nebraska Medical Center and has worked at 11 different burn centers in the USA and many more overseas.  She is currently working ‘part time’ at Children’s Hospitals in Omaha and at Mary Lanning in Hastings Nebraska.  Her passion has always been for burn care and reconstructive plastic surgery.  She travels overseas frequently to teach Burn and Plastic Surgery in various countries including Argentina, Armenia, Bangladesh, China, India, Kenya, Peru and Rwanda.   She participates with the American College of Surgeons Project Hope as a visiting professor of Burn Surgery in Rwanda.  Cats, needlepoint, cooking and traveling with friends are her favorite hobbies.

RotaPlast International is sponsored by various rotary groups around the country-the original one from San Francisco.

”Rotaplast” is an NGO funded by donations from Rotary Clubs and private folks.  Their mission is to provide free surgical care Including cleft lip/palate, dentistry, burn scar care.  We also have therapists, nutritionists, pediatricians and family docs who assist with medical management and teaching. In conjunction with local international rotary groups, medical and rotarian volunteers host a 2 week ‘surgical camp’ for the most under privileged patients in countries such as India, Bangladesh, China, Argentina, Philippines.  The more a club sponsors a trip the more club volunteers are able to join a team.  Medical equipment is donated or purchased and flown to the camp by Emrites- a humanitarian partner airline.