Dr. Rainer Gruessner — In Surgical Leadership Positions

Dr. Rainer Gruessner · February 2, 2015 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/3bc4

Dr. Rainer Gruessner

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.

Dr. Rainer Gruessner, in addition to saving lives on the operating table, has created many techniques that are used at leading transplant centers

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.

Visit : https://drrainergruessner.blogspot.com/2014/12/dr-rainer-gruessner-in-surgical.html for more.

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