Dr. Rainer Gruessner is an exceptional surgeon who has made an ample amount of contributions in the field of transplantation and general surgery. He is credited with the development of many surgical techniques that are both innovative and progressive, aiding towards the advancement of the field of surgery.
Several breakthroughs stand out: In his
early years, he was involved in the development of transanal endoscopic
microsurgery techniques (TEM) and demonstrated the superiority of abdominal
sonography vs. peritoneal lavage in blunt abdominal trauma. After specializing
in transplantation surgery, he was the first to do a preemptive living liver
transplant for oxalosis in a baby in 1998. Also, he was involved in the first
split pancreas transplant in 1988; he performed the first laparoscopic pancreas
transplant biopsy in 1995; the first laparoscopic living donor distal
pancreatectomy and nephrectomy in 2000; and the first robot assisted total
pancreatectomy with islet autotransplant in 2012. Because of his many “firsts”,
he is considered to be a pioneer in the introduction of minimal invasive and transplant
techniques.
Dr. Rainer Gruessner received his
medical degree from the Johannes Gutenberg University School of Medicine in Mainz, Germany,
in 1983. He was awarded a “summa cum laude” for his medical thesis by the same
institution. He then completed his professorial thesis (“Habilitation”, the
German PhD equivalent) at the Philipps
University in Marburg, Germany,
in 1991. In between completing his medical and professorial theses, Rainer
Gruessner did his residency at the Johannes
Gutenberg University
before going on to complete a two-year fellowship in transplantation surgery at
the University of
Minnesota. He received
additional training at the Kyoto University in Japan, where he gained valuable
experience in liver transplantation using living donors.
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