Dr. Rainer Gruessner is an expert medical professional currently practicing within the realm of transplantation surgery.
He is widely regarded as an innovative leader in his field and has been
credited with numerous firsts in the surgical world. His accomplishments
include being involved in the first split pancreas transplant in 1988, he was
the first to develop a standardized technique for living donor intestinal
transplants in 1997, he was the first to perform a preemptive living donor
liver transplant for oxalosis in 1998, he was the first to perform a laparoscopic
living donor distal pancreatectomy and nephrectomy in 2000, and the first to
perform a robot assisted total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplant in
2012.
Rainer Gruessner obtained his medical degree and his medical thesis
(“summa cum laude”) from the Johannes Gutenberg University School of Medicine
in Mainz, Germany, in 1983. He obtained his professorial thesis
(“Habilitation”) from the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, in 1991. Dr. Rainer Gruessner
did his residency at the Johannes Gutenberg University before completing a
2-year fellowship in transplantation surgery at the University of Minnesota.
He
also received additional clinical training in vascular and general surgery at
Philipps University in Germany, and in living donor liver transplantation at
Kyoto University in Japan. He is a member of the most prestigious surgical
societies and has published over 600 manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters.
He is the Dr Rainer Gruessner - Editor of 2 standard textbooks on transplant surgery and has been an
invited lecturer at over 100 institutions.
He also serves on several boards of
general and transplant surgery journals. He is widely regarded as one of the
most innovative surgeons practicing today and his been credited with performing
a number of firsts in the field.
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