Dr. Rainer Gruessner: A 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 Arizona’s 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. 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. 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 Southwest’s 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 couldn’t find a matching deceased donor for several months, he decided to use the mother as the donor and perform a live donor liver transplant. Aliyah’s 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.

Dr. Gruessner’s accomplishments don’t 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.

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: An Influential Mind and Patient Advocate

Dr. Rainer Gruessner began his illustrious decades ago, and one of his most eminent accomplishments in the transplantation surgery field occurred in 1998 when he performed the first preemptive living donor liver transplant in a baby with oxalosis.

Another first came in 2000, when Dr. Rainer Gruessner performed the first laparoscopic living donor distal pancreatectomy and nephrectomy. Twelve years later, Dr. Gruessner pioneered the field again when he performed the first robot-assisted total pancreatectomy with an islet autotransplant.

In 2010 and 2011 Arizona’s Medicaid program (AHCCCS) stopped paying for certain liver, pancreas, heart, lung and bone marrow transplants for financial reasons. This became nationally known as “Death by Budget Cuts”. Dr Rainer Gruessner vehemently fought this decision and got the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and other national transplant organizations involved as well as the media and politicians. Due to the public pressure these budget cuts were eventually revoked and patients were relisted for life-saving transplants.

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Dr. Rainer Gruessner Expert Surgeon, Physician and Scientist

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 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 Germany.

He 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 fellowship in transplantation surgery at the University of Minnesota.

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Dr. Rainer Gruessner : A History of Distinction

Dr Rainer Gruessner and his team performed the world’s first entirely robotic surgeries for patients with chronic pancreatitis starting in 2012. This procedure entails the removal of the diseased pancreas, reconstruction of the gastro-intestinal tract, and islet autotransplant to prevent the patient from becoming a (brittle) diabetic.

This procedure is unique as it allows to combine minimally invasive/robotic surgery, general surgery, and transplant surgery in 1 procedure for the wellbeing of patients with chronic pancreatitis, a debilitating disease that causes intractable pain and destruction of the pancreatic gland. At the University of Arizona, Dr Rainer Gruessner and his team have performed 6 such procedures with and over 50 without the robot.

Dr Rainer Gruessner has produced over 300 peer-reviewed publications, over 200 published abstracts, and over 75 book chapters. He is the lead editor of 2 standard textbooks on transplantation and a co-editor on a soon to be published textbook on innovative advances in general surgery.

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