Dr. Thomas Preston Davis, MD, FACS,(born July 31, 1953) is a trauma/general surgeon and formerly a Captain in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. While serving as a trauma surgeon at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, Dr. Davis rose to prominence for being lead clinical medical caretaker of the survivors of the USS Cole (DDG-67) attack in Yemen and the survivors from the USS Firebolt terrorist attack which occurred during operations to protect oil platforms in the Persian Gulf. After transferring to Okinawa, Japan in 2004, then Commander Davis was deployed to Sri Lanka for the 2004 tsunami relief effort where the group from 3d Force Service Support Group (now 3d Marine Logistics Group) was sent to Point Pedro, Sri Lanka near the Tamil Tiger/Government civil war truce line. In late 2005, Davis was Chief of Professional Services for the joint relief effort in Shinkiari in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan after the earthquake which killed approximately 73,000 victims. Additionally, in the spring of 2006, Davis led the medical relief effort in Java, Indonesia following the earthquake in that area. Davis was frequently the face of US military relief operations in the 2004-2006 time period.
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