Michael F. Sorrell

(1935- ) has lived in Syracuse, Tecumseh, and Omaha. Physician, educator, administrator, specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology, known as an expert on liver disease, his efforts since 1971 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center resulted in a Liver Transplant Program which since 1985 has become renowned worldwide for its excellence; author or co-author of more than 200 articles, over 20 book chapters, and four medical textbooks in his specialty; recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease in 1999. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, April 24, 1988, pp. 10-11, 14, 17 and Sunday World Herald, October 6, 2002, p. E-4 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 6 (2003) 891.

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