Maurice H. Rees

Maurice Holmes Rees was born on April 27, 1880, in Newton, Iowa, to Spencer Harris Rees and Margaret Holmes.{{Cite web|url=http://gen.sandyview.net/rees/index.htm|title=Rees family|website=gen.sandyview.net|access-date=2018-12-08}} He attended Newton High School and served in the Iowa National Guard from 1889 to 1901, where he was honorably discharged.{{Cite journal|last1=Holmes|first1=Urban T.|last2=Noël|first2=Maurice|date=1942|title=La Guerre des avant-postes|journal=Books Abroad|volume=16|issue=1|pages=65|doi=10.2307/40082430|issn=0006-7431|jstor=40082430}}

He earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree at Monmouth College in 1904 and a Master's of Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1905. Rees earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago in 1917 and a Doctor of Medicine from Washington University in St. Louis in 1921.{{Cite book |last= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y7BGAQAAMAAJ&q=maurice+rees+washington+university&pg=PA61 |title=Bulletin of Washington University: Annual catalogue of the Medical School |publisher=Washington University School of Medicine |year=1922 |author-link=}}{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0XvOAAAAMAAJ&q=Maurice+H.+Rees+univserity+of+chicago&pg=PA208 |title=The University of Colorado Catalogue |publisher=University of Colorado |year=1922}}

Rees held a multitude of academic positions throughout his career. He served as a professor of natural science at York College (Nebraska) (1905–1906), a professor of biology at Tarkio College (1906–1914),{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0JHAQAAMAAJ&q=Maurice+Rees+Associate+Bachelors+at+Monmouth+College%2C&pg=RA1-PA19 |title=Catalog: Undergraduate Programs |publisher=University of South Dakota |year=1917}} an assistant professor in physiology at the University of Kansas (1914–1916){{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ip_OAAAAMAAJ&q=maurice+holmes+rees+ehad+of+department&pg=PA20 |title=Catalogue |publisher=University of Kansas |year=1915}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nLwVAQAAIAAJ&q=Maurice+H.+Rees+univserity+of+chicago&pg=RA10-PA3 |title=Fortnightly Notes |publisher=Alumni Association of the University of Illinois |year=1913}} assistant professor in physiology at the University of Chicago (1916–1917) and a physiology professor at the University of South Dakota (1917–1921).{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://archive.org/details/universitychicago00univrich |title=Alumni Directory, the University of Chicago, 1919 |date=1920 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/universitychicago00univrich/page/284 284] |quote=Maurice Holmes Reese}}{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aNGAQAAMAAJ&q=maurice+holmes+reese&pg=PA284 |title=University of Chicago Alumni Directory |publisher=Produced for the University of Chicago Alumni Association by Pub. Concepts, Incorporated |year=1920}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PH5JAQAAMAAJ&q=Maurice+H.+Rees+univserity+of+chicago&pg=RA5-PA29|title=South Dakota Educator|date=1917}}

From there he would join the University of Colorado Boulder as professor of physiology and pharmacology in 1921.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ta9IAQAAMAAJ&q=Dean+at+the+University+of+Colorado+School+of+Medicine+maurice+rees&pg=RA1-PA279 |title=Catalogue of the University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado |publisher=University of Colorado (Boulder campus) |year=1922}} He would go on to become head of the school's Department of Physiology{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EsE9AQAAMAAJ&q=maurice+holmes+rees+ehad+of+department&pg=PA77 |title=Register of Doctors of Philosophy of the University of Chicago, June 1893-December 1921 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1922 |isbn=9781230056395}} and later dean at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1925.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZUVAAAAIAAJ&q=Maurice+H.+Rees+univserity+of+chicago&pg=PA728|title=Patterson's American Educational Directory|last=Patterson|first=Homer L.|date=1922|publisher=Educational Directories}} He would hold that position for 20 years until his death in 1945.

For a year he served as president of the Association of American Medical Colleges (1930–1931).{{Cite web |title=AAMC Elected Leaders: Past Presidents |url=https://www.aamc.org/about/leadership/372472/aamcelectedleaders.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914180945/https://www.aamc.org/about/leadership/372472/aamcelectedleaders.html |archive-date=September 14, 2015 |access-date=2018-12-09 |website=American Association of Medical Colleges}}{{Cite journal|date=July 1945|title=Maurice H. Rees|journal=Academic Medicine|volume=20|issue=4|pages=261|issn=1040-2446|doi=10.1097/00001888-194507000-00009|doi-access=free}}

Rees was a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Hospital Administrators, the American Physiological Society and the Denver Clinical and Pathological Society.{{Cite book |last=PERIODICAL/PÉRIODIQUE |url=https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoinameri02peri |title=Who was who in America: a companion biographical reference work to Who's Who in America |date=1976 |publisher=Marquis – Who's Who |publication-place=Chicago, IL |language=en}}

• The Influence of Pituitary Extracts on the Daily Output of Urine (January 22, 1918), The American Journal of Physiology{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9sY0AQAAMAAJ&q=maurice+holmes+rees&pg=PA469|title=The Influence of Pituitary Extracts on the Daily Output of Urine|last=Rees|first=Maurice Holmes|date=1918|publisher=University of Chicago}}
• The Influence of Pituitary Extracts on the Absorption of Water from the Small Intestine (May 12, 1920), The American Journal of Physiology{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVlGAAAAYAAJ&q=maurice+h.+rees&pg=PA43|title=American Journal of Physiology|date=1920|publisher=American Physiological Society}}
• The Use of Pituitary Extracts by Mouth in the Treatment if Diabetes Insipidus (January, 1922) Endocrinology: The Bulletin of the Association for the Society of Internal Secretions{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=op8HAQAAMAAJ&q=maurice+h.+rees&pg=PA230|title=Endocrinology|date=1922|publisher=Association for the Study of Internal Secretions}}
• Relation of Physiology to Clinical Medicine (September 7, 1929), The Journal of the American Medical Association{{Cite journal|last=Rees|first=Maurice H.|date=1929-09-07|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|volume=93|issue=10|pages=739–740|doi=10.1001/jama.1929.02710100001001|issn=0002-9955|title=Relation of Physiology to Clinical Medicine}}
• Effect of Digestive Enzymes on Pituitary Extract Action (June 1, 1923), The American Journal of Physiology{{Cite journal|journal=American Journal of Physiology. Legacy Content|volume=65|pages=90–100|doi=10.1152/ajplegacy.1923.65.1.90|year = 1923|last1 = Rees|first1 = Maurice H.|title=Effect of Digestive Enzymes on Pituitary Extract Action|last2=Whitehead|first2=Richard W.}}

Rees was married to Elizabeth M. Prather on June 21, 1911, in Tarkio, Missouri. The couple had one son together, Maurice Prather Rees.

Rees died from coronary artery disease at the age of 64 on May 25, 1945, in Denver, Colorado. His body was cremated at Fairmount Crematorium and his ashes given to his wife, Elizabeth.

In his honor, the Regents of the University of Colorado established the Dean Maurice H. Rees Scholarship Fund.{{Cite journal|date=1946-01-26|title=Medical News|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association|volume=130|issue=4|pages=231–233|doi=10.1001/jama.1946.02870040047015|issn=0002-9955}} The scholarship is to be awarded to a single student each year who is entering the junior class of the school of medicine and "has shown, in addition to excellent scholarship during his first two years, those fine qualities of character and conscientious devotion to duty manifested by Dean Rees during his life time".

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