Med center 'stars' open new, premier IBD center
August 9th, 2022
Med center leaders, local philanthropists and guests gathered at the Lied Transplant Center Wednesday night to officially open the Frederick F. Paustian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Nebraska Medical Center.
The night was a celebration not only of Dr. Paustian, a pioneering gastroenterologist who helped build the medical center’s transplant program, but also of Michael Sorrell, MD, whom Dr. Paustian recruited to UNMC and Nebraska Medicine and who, in the words of UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, "took the baton from Dr. Paustian and took it further than was previously thought possible."
Med center leaders, local philanthropists and guests gathered at the Lied Transplant Center Wednesday night to officially open the Frederick F. Paustian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Nebraska Medical Center.
The night was a celebration not only of Dr. Paustian, a pioneering gastroenterologist who helped build the medical center’s transplant program, but also of Michael Sorrell, MD, whom Dr. Paustian recruited to UNMC and Nebraska Medicine and who, in the words of UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, "took the baton from Dr. Paustian and took it further than was previously thought possible."
Dr. Sorrell also led the recruitment effort that brought Peter Mannon, MD, director of the center, to the medical center.
The center had its genesis in a 2015 gift from Omaha philanthropists Ruth and Bill Scott, with the express design of allowing UNMC and its clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine, to become one of the top centers in the country for treatment and research of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The gift also created the Ruth and Bill Scott Presidential Chair of Internal Medicine, which Dr. Mannon now holds.
On Wednesday, Dr. Gold thanked the Scotts for their support.
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Story by John Keenan | UNMC strategic communications