Dr. Rainer Gruessner A Leading Transplant Surgeon

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Dr. Rainer Gruessner A Leading Transplant Surgeon

• Dr. Rainer Gruessner is a leading transplant
  surgeon who was appointed Chair of the Department
  of Surgery at the University of Arizona in 2007.
  Under his leadership, the University of Arizonas
  Department of Surgery became one of the leaders
  in robotically assisted surgery. Gruessner drove
  his department to its impressive rise to one of
  the top overall surgery departments in the
  country with the intense focus on providing
  patients with the most noninvasive surgery
  options.

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• His willingness to develop new techniques
  involving previously unused technologies has
  caused a continued emphasis on minimally invasive
  techniques in general and transplant surgery. Dr.
  Rainer Gruessner is considered by many of his
  peers a pioneer in the field of transplantation.
  His career is full of firsts in general and
  transplant surgery.

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• In 1988, Dr. Gruessner was involved in the first
  ever split pancreas transplant. In 1997, he
  developed a repeatable technique for living donor
  intestinal transplants, a technique that is now
  used by leading transplant centers. He also
  performed the first laparoscopic biopsy of a
  pancreas transplant and one of the first
  successful emergent kidney auto-transplants.
  During his tenure in Arizona, Dr. Rainer
  Gruessner performed the Southwests first living
  donor liver transplant in an infant. Aliyah had
  been diagnosed with a rare liver disease called
  biliary atresia, which occurs once in every
  10,000 to 15,000 babies born. She needed a liver
  transplant to survive, but when Dr. Gruessner
  couldnt find a matching deceased donor for
  several months, he decided to use the mother as
  the donor and perform a live donor liver
  transplant. Aliyahs mother gave up a portion of
  her liver, which Dr. Gruessner transplanted into
  Aliyah, saving her life. Several years later,
  Aliyah is enjoying a normal life.

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• Dr. Gruessners accomplishments dont end there.
  In 2000, he became the first transplantation
  surgeon to perform a laparoscopic living donor
  distal pancreatectomy, and in 2012, he performed
  the first robot assisted total pancreatectomy
  with an islet autotransplant. Both of these
  procedures changed how surgeons treat their
  patients, and a generation of surgeons use
  techniques pioneered by Dr. Gruessner today.

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• Dr. Rainer Gruessner adds his developments,
  observations and research to the medical
  literature with over 600 publications, including
  abstracts, manuscripts, and book chapters. He
  sits on the editorial boards of both general and
  transplant surgery journal and is a member of
  over 20 professional societies. He has spoken at
  over 100 institutions and has edited two standard
  text books used around the country, with a third
  one on innovation in surgery in the works. He is
  also active in his professional community and has
  received several awards.

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• Dr. Rainer Gruessner - Wikipedia-
  http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UserRainer_Gruessner
  
• Dr. Rainer Gruessner - Blog - http//drrainergrue
  ssner.blogspot.com
• Dr. Rainer Gruessner - re.vu- http//re.vu/DrRain
  erGruessner