Dr. Rainer Gruessner is a highly
respected surgeon who was appointed as the Chairman of the Department of
Surgery at the University
of Arizona in 2007 and
also served as Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Surgical Director
of the Hepatopancreaticobiliary program. During his tenure, he was responsible
for the complete rebuilding and transformation of the Department of Surgery
which included the addition of three new divisions along with numerous clinical
programs. He recruited over 70 new faculty members: six were highly-recognized
division chiefs who subsequently contributed largely to the department’s
growing national reputation. Dr.
Gruessner implemented robotic and
minimally invasive procedures throughout
the Department of Surgery’s subspecialties in an effort to reduce length
of hospital stay and costs and increase patient satisfaction. With Dr.
Gruessner at the helmet, the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Arizona became one of the largest
robotic surgery programs in the nation.
His experience at the University of Arizona
was just one of the examples of Rainer Gruessner’s successes in the surgical
field. He has been in surgical leadership positions for over 15 years. Many of his accomplishments are documented in
over 600 manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters. He is the editor of two
standard textbooks on transplant surgeryand a third one on “Technological
Advances in Surgery” is in the making. Dr. Gruessner has been an invited
lecturer at over 100 institutions and serves on
many editorial boards of surgery journals.
Dr. Rainer Gruessner’s devotion to
transplantation surgery and immunology has been the source of many significant
contributions and his development of
innovative procedures has helped advance surgical treatment options for
patients with life-threatening disorders.
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