With the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center set to open in the spring of 2017, 40 new physicians and medical scientists to the cancer center team were recognized at a VIP reception at the Omaha Country Club on Sept. 14.
See a photo album from the event here.
A total of 164 people attended the reception, which was hosted by Mike Yanney and Gail Walling Yanney, M.D., two community leaders who have been instrumental in making the cancer center a reality.
The cancer center is a joint venture between UNMC and its primary clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine. The reception included UNMC and Nebraska Medicine leadership as well as community leaders from across the Omaha metropolitan area.
See video introducing some of the new faces here.
The new faculty members were recruited from institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, Vanderbilt and Duke, or did their fellowship training at such institutions as MD Anderson, Mount Sinai, Yale and UNMC. The cancer center is Nebraska’s largest-ever public-private partnership.
With a goal of becoming one of the elite cancer centers in the country, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-designated center. It is forecast to add approximately 1,050 new positions for clinical and research staff as well as 150 new clinical and research faculty.