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 – Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rainer_Gruessner