Rainer Gruessner

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Rainer Gruessner: Esteemed Surgeon Rainer Gruessner is a highly esteemed and successful surgeon who was formerly Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona. He also served as Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Surgical Director of the Hepatopancreaticobil iary Program at the University of Arizona. He went to Medical School in

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Rainer Gruessner: Esteemed Surgeon

Rainer Gruessner is a highly esteemed and successful surgeon who was formerly Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona. He also served as Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Surgical Director of the Hepatopancreaticobiliary Program at the University of Arizona. He went to Medical School in Mainz, Germany, at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat, where he also finished his Doctoral Thesis (“summa cum laude”).

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Rainer Gruessner: Innovative Surgeon

Rainer Gruessner is a highly successful surgeon who formerly served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona. He went to Medical Schoo in Mainz, Germany, at the Johannes-Gutenbery-Universitat where he obtained his Doctorate and completed his Doctoral Thesis “suma cum laude” in 1983.

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Rainer Gruessner: A Surgeon Unlike Others

Rainer Gruessner is an achieved and highly professional surgeon whose work is widely recognized in his field. He is the former Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona in addition to holding the positions of Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Surgical Director of the Hepatopancreaticobiliary Program. He achieved much of his postgraduate degrees and studies outside of the U.S. in Germany and received additional training in living donor liver transplantation in Japan.

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Rainer Gruessner: Professional Surgeon

Rainer Gruessner is one of the most broadly trained transplant surgeon in his field. He has achieved many accolades over the course of his career and has developed one of the largest islet transplant programs in the nation, focusing on the treatment of chronic pancreatitis includingperformance of the world’s first robot-assisted total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplant in 2012.