Dr. Rainer Gruessner is an expert in the
field transplantation surgery. He is the former Chairman of the Department of
Surgery, Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Director of
Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery and currently serves as a Professor of Surgery
and Immunology at the University of Arizona. Although he has spent most of his
career practicing within the United States of America, he received his
education in the country of Germany. 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. 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 editor of 2 standard textbooks on
transplant surgery. 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.
Dr. Rainer Gruessner is the former Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the
University of Arizona. He held the position from 2007 to the current year of
2014 and was largely responsible for the complete rebuilding of the surgical
department including the implementation of three new divisions along with
numerous clinical programs. He also recruited over 60 new faculty members in
order to significantly increase the operating room case volume. Dr. Rainer
Gruessner introduced robotic and minimally invasive procedures throughout all
Department of Surgery subspecialties allowing the Division of Cardiothoracic
Surgery to become one of the largest robotic surgery programs of its kind in
the nation.
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