Dr. Rainer Gruessner is an
extremely dedicated and caring medical professional who is currently a
Professor of Surgery and Immunology at the University of Arizona.
He is a renowned and successful surgeon, doctor, and scientist who has devoted
himself to helping patients with life-threatening disorders of the pancreas,
bowel and liver. He is the pioneer of many groundbreaking developments in the
field of transplantation surgery and immunology. He was involved in the first
split pancreas transplant in 1988; he performed the first preemptive living
donor liver transplant for oxalosis in a baby in 1998; the first laparoscopic
living donor distal pancreatectomy and nephrectomy in 2000; and the first robot
assisted total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplant in 2012. Rainer
Gruessner obtained both his medical degree and his medical thesis, “summa cum
laude,” from the Johannes Gutenberg University
in Mainz, Germany. He did his residency in
surgery at the same school before moving to the United
States to complete a 2-year fellowship in transplant
surgery at the University
of Minnesota.
Dr. Rainer Gruessner was appointed
as the Chairman of the University
of Arizona’s Department
of Surgery in 2007. During his tenure, he was responsible for the complete
overhaul and rebuilding of the school’s surgical department which included the
addition of over 70 faculty members, six divisional chiefs and the implementation
of many new clinical and robotic surgery programs. Dr. Rainer Gruessner
introduced minimally invasive surgical procedures, such as robotics, throughout
all the Department of Surgery’s subspecialties. The Division of Cardiothoracic
Surgery then became one of the largest robotic surgery programs in the
nation.
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