Dr. Rainer Gruessner: Chairman at Arizona

Dr. Rainer Gruessner

During his seven years as the Chair of the Surgery Department at the University Of Arizona School of Medicine, Dr. Rainer Gruessner brought the department into a realm of greatness not seen before. Dr. Gruessner is a visionary in his field, contributing to the careers of a generation of transplant surgeons all over the country.

In the state of Arizona as well as in the Southwestern United States, he performed the first living and deceased donor intestinal transplants, the first multivisceral transplant, the first pediatric living liver donor transplant, and the first robot assisted total pancreatectomy with simultaneous autologous islet transplant. Dr. Gruessner has made numerous contributions to the University, his Department of Surgery, and the field of transplantation surgery as a whole.