The University of Arizona Celebrates the Work of Dr. Rainer Gruessner
During his time as the Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona, Dr. Rainer Gruessner brought the department to the forefront of general and transplantation surgery.
- Tucson, AZ (1888PressRelease) January 29, 2015 - During his seven years as the Chair of the Surgery Department at the University Of Arizona School of Medicine, Dr. Rainer Gruessner brought the department into a realm of greatness not seen before. Dr. Gruessner is a visionary in his field, contributing to the careers of a generation of transplant surgeons all over the country. In the state of Arizona as well as in the Southwestern United States, he performed the first living and deceased donor intestinal transplants, the first multivisceral transplant, the first pediatric living liver donor transplant, and the first robot assisted total pancreatectomy with simultaneous autologous islet transplant.
Dr. Rainer Gruessner has made numerous contributions to the University, his Department of Surgery, and the field of transplantation surgery as a whole. Shortly after Dr. Gruessner took control of the Department of Surgery, the General Surgery Residency program turned from a probationary status to full accreditation. He established three new residency programs within the Department of Surgery: Cardiothoracic Surgery, ENT, and Vascular Surgery. He dramatically expanded the Graduate School program-six categorical surgery residents were awarded graduate degrees (MS, Ph.D.) since 2009. His contributions to the transplant literature are numerous. In addition to his 600 publications during his career, he also expanded the number of resident- produced publications from the General Surgery Residency program from less than five in 2006 to over 60 publications in 2012.
Under Dr. Rainer Gruessner's administration, the Department of Surgery's National Institutes of Health grant support quadrupled. Dr. Gruessner also moved one of only two independent international solid-organ transplant registries, the International Pancreas Transplant Registry, to the University of Arizona.
Dr. Gruessner also oversaw a huge increase in operating room case volume while the surgery case volume for pancreatic, liver, and bile duct cancers quadrupled. His HepatoPancreaticoBiliary program attracted many patients from the surrounding metropolitan areas.
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