RAINER GRUESSNER INNOVATOR AND LEADER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANY GROUNDBREAKING NEW PRACTICES IN HIS FIELD
Dr. Rainer Gruessner is a nationally and internationally
renowned
transplant
surgeon who is held in high esteem as an
innovator and leader in the development of many groundbreaking new practices in his field.
Rainer
Gruessner
performed
the
first
laparoscopic pancreas transplant biopsy in 1995; the first laparoscopic living donor
distal pancreatectomy and nephrectomy in 2000; and the first robot assisted total
pancreatectomy with islet autotransplant in 2012. He was also the first to do a preemptive living liver transplant for oxalosis in a baby in 1998.
He is a member of over 20 professional
societies including the American Surgical Association and a Fellow of both the American as well as the International College of Surgeons. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the European Board of Transplantation.
RAINER GRUESSNER PROFILES • Rainer Gruessner - Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/RainerGruessner/rainer-gruessner
• Rainer Gruessner – Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rainer_Gruessner