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.
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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.