Program director of the month

Peter Mannon, MD

Peter Mannon, MD

Name: Peter Mannon, MD

Medical school attended: Boston University Six Year Medical Program

Location of your residency/fellowship training: Duke for internal medicine; Johns Hopkins and Duke for GI fellowship

What residency/fellowship program at UNMC are you serving as program director for? Fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology

Number of trainees: 14 with incoming first years

How long have you been the program director? Two years

What made you chose to become the program director? I wanted to get a sense of the existing strengths and opportunities to make things even better.

What challenges do you foresee in graduate medical education in the future? Providing the next generations of academic gastroenterologists and hepatologists to create the knowledge that will improve life for the rest of us.

What are the strengths of your training program? The variety of practices settings, breadth of disease and presentations, volume of endoscopic procedures trainees complete and the one-on-one time spent with the faculty.

List some accomplishments that you are proud of: Our fellows get their choice of academic and private practice positions on graduation; our fellows are active in research and scholarly pursuits and have been recognized at national levels for high profile presentations of their data and participation in selective symposia; and we have been successful in retaining trainees as faculty members.

Tell us three things about you that others may not know:

  • I am the proud co-parent of two fantastic Spinone Italianos (look it up).
  • I am a big supporter of local farmers markets.
  • I read cookbooks as if they are scientific texts.